Investigating Plate Tectonics

Investigating Plate Tectonics is an expository nonfiction text that explores Earth’s crust, evidence of plate tectonics, magnetic pole reversal, rocks being recycled, plate boundaries, and hot spots of molten magma. Readers gain interesting information from text and graphics.. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to drill core samples from an egg to see what it looks like inside just like geologist try with the Earth.

Investigating Plate Tectonics is divided into sections with some subsections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including labeled photos, maps, and diagrams. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, quotation marks, exclamation marks, 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 including adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Base words with affixes, possessives, and a full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, contractions, and verbs with inflection endings. The text occasionally uses parentheses embedded in sentences. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Many 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.