Country Profiles
Series of 78 titles
Adventure abroad! This series takes young explorers on a world tour. Readers will stop at famous landmarks, meet new people groups, and experience unique customs and holidays. To further celebrate cultural diversity, these books teach how to speak foreign words, cook staple foods, and play traditional games.
| Reading Level | Grade 4 |
|---|---|
| Category | Newly Fluent, Nonfiction |
| Subject | Geography |
| Copyright | 2021 |
| Publisher | Bellwether Media |
| Imprint | Blastoff! Discovery |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2019-01-01 |
| Reading Counts! Level | 4.7-5.5 |
| Reading Counts! Points | 3.0 |
| Dewey | 941.1-994 |
|---|---|
| Graphics | Full-color photographs |
| Lexile | 720-880 |
| Guided Reading Level | R-T |
| ATOS Reading Level | 4.4-5.1 |
| Accelerated Reader® Points | 0.5 |
Reviews
Educator Review of Country Profiles
Each informational text in the Country Profiles series presents an overview of the geography, cultural heritage, and colonial history of a country. These short, fourth-grade level readers, were published in 2021 and thus offer a culturally relevant text set for school and classroom libraries. Each text is organized using the same short chapter titles like “location,” “landscape and climate,” and “communities,” which would help educators facilitate independent and group research assignments or guided reading notes. The factual information of each chapter is enhanced through colorful photographs, tables, and figures, and texts are written in engaging and student-friendly language. This text set would offer students a credible and readable informational source for independent reading in the social studies subject areas.
Educator Review of Country Profiles
In this series, the reader learns about a variety of countries and special characteristics of each country. For example, each book discusses the customs, traditions, food, landscape, climate, celebrations, and the people of each country. The beautiful photographs of each book capture the
readers’ attention and support the informational text within the book. These non-fiction books include numerous non-fiction text features to support the reader in understanding the important facts in the book. Some non-fiction text features included in each book are engaging photographs, maps, a table of contents, labels, headings, bold-faced words, a chart, a diagram, a timeline, a glossary, and an index. For fellow educators, these books are a dream for teaching non-fiction text features and utilizing them for student research projects. The books are all set up in the same format, which allows for whole group discussions on the text features and information within the text. The books share similar information in the same order, thus allowing for great discussions for students to share about their ‘country’ and compare countries to one
another. Readers, pack your bags for an epic adventure of discovering all of these fascinating countries!