Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The series is designed to support national science standards for units on the diversity and unity of animal life by showing that animals have unique features that enable them to live in different environments. Each page of text presents a single descriptive sentence and is accompanied by a photograph to help students understand the text. The close up photographs show readers that ladybugs are orange or red with black spots, and that they have six legs, two hard wings, and two soft wings.
Readers also learn that ladybugs have strong jaws and they eat other insects.
The vocabulary is defined in the Words to Know section. An index and bibliography of additional books and Internet sites are also provided.