What Do Wheels Do All Day, by April Jones Prince

Illus. by Giles Laroche

Wheels move us in many ways: skateboards, motorcycles, and ferris wheels. A simple text employs vivid verbs to introduce a variety of wheels shown in attractive paper collage illustrations. Useful for primary units on motion as well as language arts lessons about action words.

Grades K-2

Move! by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page

Each doublespread in this book features an action word, presented in a large font along with one or two animals created with collages of cut and torn paper and a sentence with the animal and the action word. The page turns are action packed themselves. For example an armadillo swims and then quickly leaps on the next page to avoid a crocodile. I plan to use this for a lesson on action words in the context of a first grade unit on motion. Notes about the animals and how they move follow the body of the text.

Grades 1-4