This book is great for teaching children about insects, especially flies. It is a funny story full of fun facts about the life span of a fly. It is a good book for any elementary grade because it is fun to read and educational. ( )

Children will love to learn more about flies with this I, Fly Book. This is a fun informational book that is easy for students to read, but also for them to comprehend. This is a great book to introduce students to informational text. Children will love looking at the bright and colorful pictures as I, Fly shares information all about himself-flies. This book would be a great resource for students to use when they are doing an insect research report. This book could be paired with videos and other books about flies. This would be a great way to differentiate the lesson. Students could be using this book as a resource and the vocabulary, wording, and content is informative, yet simple.

This informational children's book discusses the life cycle of fly. It introduces key vocabulary terms with context clues and explicit definitions to help with meaning. The pictures are interesting and the book is written in the perspective of a fly telling the story of his life. I think that style can help grab students attention while still relaying the facts. I would use this to highlight key ideas and vocabulary like metamorphosis, larvae, pupae, etc. According to Scholastic, the readability level of this book is about 2nd grade. I would have my students order the stages of a fly's life with movable pictures after reading this book. ( )

This book is very useful to bring reading into a science classroom. There are a lot of vocabulary words that teachers can talk about and go over after or before reading this book. The text and pictures are very interactive for children due to the dialogue and speech bubbles within. ( )

I, Fly is an excellent twist to the ever over popularized "butterfly lessons" that many schools teach to young children in science classes. This book revolves around a fly that is sick of children only learning about butterflies when it comes to insect metamorphosis. He goes on to list several fly facts such as: life cycle, diet, anatomy, behavior, survival, and benefits/problems. This is a good book to instill scientific curiosity to young children by retaining the feel and look of a children's picture book but giving relevant and advanced facts about flies. Children can then go on and research their own facts about an insect or animal of their choice as a follow up activity. ( )