Grade 4. 2024. 56 pages. Lexile range: 690-860L. Sending Signals reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can Animals Use Their Senses to Communicate? Topics include: Let In the Light; Sensible Structures; Seeing with Sound; Animals with Something to Say; Life as an Animal Behavior Scientist; Trees of the Tembe; Faster Than a Flying Pigeon; and Living Light Bulbs. Soft cover.

Grade 4. 2024. 56 pages. Lexile range: 690-860L. Sending Signals literacy reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into the main activities of many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can Animals Use Their Senses to Communicate?

Topics include:

• Let In the Light: How eyes let in light for sight (830L)
• Sensible Structures: The structures that organisms use for their senses (840L)
• Seeing with Sound: How elephants "see" faraway objects using sound (860L)
• Animals with Something to Say: Signals that animals use to send messages (850L)
• Life as an Animal Behavior Scientist: Dr. Rachel Page's work focusing on animal behavior (750L)
• Trees of the Tembe: The Tembe people want to protect their rainforest (760L)
• Faster Than a Flying Pigeon: Finding better ways to communicate over distances (690L)
• Living Light Bulbs: How some organisms have the ability to produce light (820L)

The reader connects student literacy to science in the real world. Soft cover.