Spiders by Nic Bishop

Bishop, N. (2007). Spiders. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Spiders is about different kinds of spiders portrayed as hunters before lions, tigers, and even before dinosaurs. According to Bishop they were one of the first predators to walk on land, starting more than 350 million years ago. Bishop captures these small to big spiders through this book's beautiful and vivid photographs. The spiders look as if they look at you straight in the eye. Bishop matches the spiders' external characteristics to each photograph in such a lively manner in this nonfiction book.

Book could be used in a first grade Science Lesson: After reading this book to the students have them draw or find a picture of a spider (student's choice) and investigate and write down (reflect) in a journal how the external characteristics of the spider relates to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats. 

TEKS: 1.10.A - (10) Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:

(A) investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats;