George Washington Carver: Agriculture Pioneer

George Washington Carver Agriculture Pioneer is an expository nonfiction text that explores all about George Washington Carver, a botanist, who invented methods of crop rotation and researched ways to use plants for our benefit. The text includes a section on geobiologist Hope Jahren. Readers gain information from text and graphics. Multiple scientists and their work are highlighted in the text. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to prove that water is transported from the roots, up the stalk, and out of the leaves of a plant.

George Washington Carver Agriculture Pioneer 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. 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 vary in the placement of the subject, verb, adjectives, and adverbs. Some complex sentences have a variety in the order of clauses. A full range of plurals, contractions, possessives, compound words, and a variety of verbs with inflectional endings are used. The text makes use of many adjectives and nouns formed with verbs and the suffix -er. Sentences contain connectives, prepositional phrases and base words with affixes. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text.

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