Teaching tools for Silk & Venom, Searching for a Dangerous Spider

Engage your students!

The Common Core is hot right now. I have some ideas for you about how to use my books!

How about pairing a lively non-fiction book about spider research with a funny very fictional account of a family of venomous spiders?

Let the kids compare and discuss.

Silk and Venom

This book has an index, a glossary, plus lists print and Internet sources.

Curriculum relationships to:

Science: organisms and their environment, DNA analysis, predators/prey relationships, geography,

Language Arts: non-fiction narrative, biographical narrative, picture support using photographs,

Social Studies: global connections, multicultural,

The Deadlies is narrative fiction with picture support, and has an author note about what is true and what isn’t in the story.

Curriculum relationships to:

Language Arts: Imaginative narrative, character and plot development, sequence of events,

Science: organisms and their environment, characteristics of organisms,