DK Readers: Ant Antics 3

Tài liệu DK Readers: Ant Antics 3 has stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations with engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. With DK Readers, children will learn to read — and read to learn!
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DK Readers: Ant Antics 3 A Note to Parents and Teachers DK READERS is a compelling reading programme for children. The programme is designed in conjunction with leading literacy experts, including Cliff Moon M.Ed., who has spent many years as a teacher and teacher educator specializing in reading. Cliff Moon has written more than 160 books for children and teachers. He is series editor to Collins Big Cat. Beautiful illustrations and superb full-colour photographs combine with engaging, easy-to-read stories to offer a fresh approach to each subject in the series. Each DK READER is guaranteed to capture a child’s interest while developing his or her reading skills, general knowledge, and love of reading. The five levels of DK READERS are aimed at different reading abilities, enabling you to choose the books that are exactly right for your child: Pre-level 1: Learning to read Level 1: Beginning to read Level 2: Beginning to read alone Level 3: Reading alone Level 4: Proficient readers The “normal” age at which a child begins to read can be anywhere from three to eight years old. Adult participation through the lower levels is very helpful for providing encouragement, discussing storylines and sounding out unfamiliar words. No matter which level you select, you can be sure that you are helping your child learn to read, then read to learn! LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, AND DELHI Contents Series Editor Deborah Lock U.S. Editor Shannon Beatty Designer Jemma Westing 4 Ants alive! Production Editor Sean Daly Picture Researcher Rob Nunn Jacket Designer Natalie Godwin 6 Swarm raiders Natural History Consultant Tom Fayle 14 Fungus farmers Reading Consultant Linda Gambrell, Ph.D. 22 Fiery team workers First American Edition, 2011 Published in the United States by DK Publishing 30 Wood tunnellers 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 11 12 13 14 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 001-182473-August 2011 36 Weaving wonders Copyright © 2011 Dorling Kindersley Limited All rights reserved 42 Speedy hunters without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), 48 Glossary without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978-0-7566-8932-2 (paperback) ISBN:978-0-7566-8933-9 (hardcover) DK books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, or educational use. For details, contact: DK Publishing Special Markets 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 SpecialSales@dk.com Printed and bound in China by L Rex Printing Co., Ltd. The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their photographs: a=above, b=below/bottom, c=center, l=left, r=right, t=top Alamy Images: The Africa Image Library 7; Guillermo Lopez Barrera 23; Stan Gregg 30; JJM Stock Photography 20; H. Lansdown 40; Patrick Lynch 26-27; Jack Thomas 4tr; Christian Ziegler / Danita Delimont 16. Corbis: Michael & Patricia Fogden 14-15; Martin Gallagher 32-33; Steve Kaufman 21. FLPA: Mark Moffett / Minden Pictures 43; Piotr Naskrecki / Minden Pictures 5crb, 7br, 17b, 38; Christian Ziegler / Minden Pictures 10-11. Getty Images: Gallo Images / Travel Ink 41tr; National Geographic / Tim Laman 8-9; Stock Illustration Source / Peter Siu 4-5; Taxi / Hans Christian Heap 37. naturepl.com: Mark Bowler 2, 3, 4br, 15cr; Martin Dohrn 5bl; Kim Taylor 5tr, 12-13, 34bl; John Waters 39. NHPA / Photoshot: Ken Griffiths 46-47; Dave Pinson 42; Dr. Ivan Polunin 36. Photolibrary: Richard Packwood / Oxford Scientific (OSF) 34-35. Science Photo Library: 23tr; Ted Clutter 31; Gregory Dimijian 19; James H. Robinson 5tl, 28, 29. SuperStock: Minden Pictures 11, 17tr. Alex Wild / myrmecos.net: 13t, 22, 24bc, 24-25, 44, 45. Jacket images: Front: Nature Picture Library: Meul / ARCO All other images © Dorling Kindersley For further information see: www.dkimages.com Discover more at www.dk.com READERS Ant Antics Written by Deborah Lock DK Publishing Carpenter ants: Ants alive! We are found all Ants have been over the world. Meet us on page 30. on Earth for more than 110 million years. They’ve spread out all over the planet and there’s an estimated 10,000 trillion of them crawling around. More than 12,000 different kinds of ants have been named and there are probably ...