Investigating Storms

Investigating Storms is an expository nonfiction text about storms and covers water and wind, thunderstorms, tornadoes and waterspouts, hurricanes, blizzards, and jet streams and ocean currents. Readers gain interesting information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to explore how raindrops form.

Investigating Storms is divided into sections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including charts and labeled photos and diagrams. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, 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. A full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain common and sophisticated connectives, possessives, contractions, prepositional phrases, and verbs with inflection endings. The text occasionally uses parentheses embedded in sentences. 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.