Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall Animal Scientist and Friend is an expository nonfiction text that explores all about zoologist and leading authority on chimpanzees, Jane Goodall, including her early years, field research, and different groups of apes. The text includes a section on anthropologist Biruté Galdikas. 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 saliva from a dog and a human to see which grows more bacteria fastest.

Jane Goodall Animal Scientist and Friend 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, 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 difficult words are given phonetically. A full range of plurals, contractions, possessives, compound words, and a variety of verbs with inflectional endings are used. The text makes use of similes to make comparisons and adjectives with comparative endings. 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.