Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife: Tiger Rescue

Bibliographic information: 

Bortolotti, Dan.  Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife:  Tiger Rescue

Brief plot description:

This book concentrates on an animal on the endangered species list.  The animal is the tiger.  This book contains a content page, an index, and an author’s note.  The book is broken into sections that talk about the problems facing tigers.  Some of these include information about the tiger such as where they live.  It also goes over some firsthand accounts of people trying to solve this problem.  These accounts come for China, Malaysia, and other conservations.  The author discusses how the tiger hunts and how it is being hunted and why.  At the end of the book is information about how to help save tigers.  This information contains the names of organizations, their web and street addresses, phone numbers, and information on what they do.  The book contains many pictures that help bring to the reader the cause. 

Brief review:

This book will give the students the opportunity to read about a problem in our world. As the students read the book they will problem-solve several words and will be asked if they can come up with a solution to why the tiger is endangered.  Some of the words that they may have difficulty with are prognosis, rehabilitate, controversial, umpteen, retaliation, amenities, and ringgit.  The story also provides opportunity to use strategies on extended text.  This text has captions and boxed information that will need to be read for understanding. After reading the text the students will have a better understanding of informational books because of the format, and the reader might be able to make a connection with this book if they have a pet. Students will be given an introduction on this book because of the informational format, and because there are concepts that will need to be explained.

Genre label:

Informational, Animals

Reading level/interest level:

 4^th - 6^th 

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