Jenny Fretland VanVoorst

Make it Move! by Jennifer VanVoorst is a great book for early readers and for new English readers. The book is easy to follow especially since the pictures do a good job of explaining and providing clues to what the words state on the page. The vocabulary in the book is not too difficult except for a few words such as inclined, but other than that the majority of the words kids will have already have seen or heard before. This book would be a good book to have in your classroom especially if show more your students are emergent readers or multilingual students who are just starting to learn English. show less

"Make it Move" is a great book to expose young students to the mechanical world around them. It introduces them to pulleys and wheels and gives them a basic foundation on what they do and why we use them. It uses photographs from the real world and helps students make connections. It would be a good read for when students come together on the carpet and questions can be asked after each page.

"Make it Move" is a great book to expose young students to the mechanical world around them. It introduces them to items, such as wheels, and gives them a basic foundation on what they do and why we use them. They can make connections to their every day life; for example, "I have wheels on my bike." It can be used in a science or math unit for young children. It uses photographs from the real world, which also prompts them to make connections to their prior knowledge and experiences. If a show more teacher read this to a reading group, questions can be asked after each page. It has several descriptive attributes and cause and affects. show less

This book might be a little bit more complicated for beginning readers, but the pictures do a great job of explaining what the page is about. It is a great science text that explains how things move. We could use this book to ask the student guiding questions like: "how does this work?" "what caused this?"