Description
Written by Donna Klockars. Illustrated by Bill Helin, Tsimshian (Ts'msysen), Tlingit.
People learn about important information and events when they read a newspaper. All the animals in Pine Forest like to read news stories.
Can you predict some of the stories that the animal reporters might write for the Pine Forest News?
Educator & Series Information
Pine Forest News is part of the Strong Readers: Set B series. Set B is a continuation of Set A. The mixture of fiction and non-fiction books, from levels 11 through 20, expands on frog, bear, eagle, and raven, considering their full lifecycles.
The Strong Readers are a guided/leveled reading series chock full of science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings. Strong Readers are rich with scaffolded text features and have beautiful illustrations and photographs. The entire series is interconnected and follows the cultural values of frog, bear, eagle and raven throughout.
Guided Reading Level: 20