Investigating the Human Body

Investigating the Human Body is an expository nonfiction text that explains all about the human body, including the twelve systems, keeping good habits to live a healthy lifestyle, safe sports, and healthcare professionals that help us to be healthy. The book gives students easy-to-understand tips on how to live a healthier life, as well as different career options in medicine. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to explore if people’s abilities to smell are equal.

Investigating the Human Body 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 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 vary in the placement of the subject, verb, adjectives, and adverbs. Some complex sentences have a variety in the order of clauses and the use of parenthetical material embedded in sentences appear in the text. The text makes use of similes to make comparisons. A full range of plurals, contractions, possessives, compound words, and a variety of verbs with inflectional endings are used. Sentences contain connectives, prepositional phrases and base words with affixes. Content-specific words are introduced and explained in the text. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text.

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.