Tamra Orr

Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. Tell Me Why It Snows offers answers to their most compelling questions about winter weather. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. We Have Hurricanes offers answers to their most compelling questions about hurricanes. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

This Level 1 guided reader explores the feeling of fear. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about their feelings.

This book relays the factual details of 9/11 through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a New York Muslim student, NYFD firefighter, and Midwestern student. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Modern events never look the same to everyone. It...

This book relays the factual details of the invention of Facebook in 2004 through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Harvard student, Harvard professor, and potential investor. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Modern events never look the...

This Level 1 guided reader explores the feeling of surprise. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about their feelings.

This Level 1 guided reader explores the feeling of excitement. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about their feelings.

This book relays the factual details of the BP oil spill through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of an online investigator, California student, and Louisiana shrimper. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Modern events never look the same to everyone....

This book relays the factual details of Hurricane Katrina through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a storm survivor, Coast Guard officer, and California student. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Modern events never look the same to everyone....