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Fast and Slow helps emergent readers understand and differentiate between these opposites while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once. --Publisher
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Most scientists believe Velociraptor was the fastest of all dinosaurs. But how can they know exactly how quick it was, how big, or how smart? After all, no one has actually seen one! Come along and find out lots of fascinating facts in this brilliant exploration of the Velociraptor--and see how the fierce, feathered creature compares in speed to some of today's animals, vehicles, and US!
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"Come along on a science adventure to discover how cars speed up and slow down, how astronauts float in space, and so much more! This fun question and answer book has everything from facts and figures to simple diagrams and hilarious illustrations to help you learn introductory physics terms and concepts including displacement, velocity, acceleration, forces, friction, gravity and more."--Back cover.
7) Going fast
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Alphakids volume Level 19
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Explores how athletes use their bodies, wheels, gravity, wind, and engines to go fast.
11) Speedsters
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"Let Mechanic Mike show you his favorite speedsters. Discover the awesome velocity of some of the world's most amazing speed machines"--P. [4] of cover.
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"Did you know that a colossal squid's eyeball is bigger than a basketball, or that your sneeze shoots out faster than a hurricane? 'How big is big? How far is far? All around me' moves through the world to find creative ways of explaining size, distance, weight, and speed to help introduce measurements to young children."--Back cover.
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"Fun comparisons for kids. How far away is the moon? How big is a blue whale's heart? How heavy are 10,000 pounds? Distance, weight, and size are difficult to grasp until contrasted with other quantities. How Big is Big? How Far is Far? renders measurements and dimensions more comprehensible through amusing comparisons. Did you know, for example, that the rhinoceros beetle can carry up to 850 times its own weight? Or that it would take eight days...
16) Fast and slow
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"A fast-flapping bird zooms through the sky. A tired turtle creeps along at a slow, lazy pace. Forces in motion are around us everywhere! They make things move at every speed. Explore science concepts through fun examples and simple, lively text to set learning into motion"--