All About Mitosis and Meiosis

All About Mitosis and Meiosis is an expository nonfiction text explains cell, mitosis, meiosis, meiosis I, meiosis II, and how mitosis and meiosis work together. Readers gain interesting information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to make mobile models of plant and animal cells and identify and describe the structure and function of organelles.

All About Mitosis and Meiosis is divided into sections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including labeled photos and diagrams. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, and question marks are used. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences structures and lengths vary with a wide variety of parts of speech. Base words with affixes and a full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, possessives, contractions, prepositional phrases, and verbs with inflection endings. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Some words appear in the vocabulary of mature language users.

This title is from the Science Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.