Investigation Simple Organisms

Investigating Simple Organisms is an expository nonfiction text that explores simple organisms such as the four kingdoms: bacteria, archaea, protista, and fungi. 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 test how effective handwashing is in preventing the spread of germs.

Investigating Simple Organisms 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, quotations marks, and exclamation 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, and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, prepositional phrases, verbs with inflection endings, and base words with affixes. Difficult, scientific words are given phonetically in parentheses. 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.