The Solar System guided reading book by Emily Bone is another Usborne book that would be great as a comprehension text. This also has elements of descriptive attributes, characteristic events, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. Students reading this text would be asked to read a couple pages/ subtitle of the book and be asked to close the book and summarize what they just read. Using this book will test children to see how much of the text they comprehended reading the text once. In general, this would be a good book to keep in a classroom library because it is interesting, informational, and will capture young minds' attention.

Summary: The book has much information about our planets. It tells about space and what is out there, and how scientists think the solar system got started. It tells about each planet and what is significant about each one. The book also explains how scientists see things that are very far away with telescopes, and how some travel around the Earth in space, and how scientists get information from them.
Personal reaction: I enjoyed reading this book and believe children will like it as well. The illustrations are really colorful and show what they believe the planets to look like, down to the craters, and clouds of dust on the different planets. There is good information that our young children can easily understand and some may be able to read. I like how it shows pictures and explains each planet in simple detail for the children. It also has a glossary to help students with words they might not know.
Classroom Extension Ideas: We can have a telescope for the students to look through. We can make planets with clay or play dough. We can talk about what is on Earth and look for pictures on our computer and in other books, then draw our favorite planet and color it, like they think it should be. ( )