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Robots
Robots is an expository text about robots that help people do things, such as make cars, work in fires, and work underwater. Photographs enhance and extend meaning of the text. Robot arms, hands, and legs are labeled. An index is included. Interest words...
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Rubbery Arms and Baggy Bodies
Rubbery Arms and Baggy Bodies is an expository text that invites readers to learn about octopi. The body parts of an octopus, as well as where they live, how they eat, and their cleverness, is discussed. Illustrations depict content and ideas in...
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Run Fast
Run Fast is an expository text about all the different kinds of animals that can run fast. Illustrations fully support the text. The animal, as well as their long legs, if they have them, are labeled in the photographs. To conclude, an index is presented...
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Sails: Police Work
Police Work is a narrative story about a police force searching through job applications to find a new undercover police officer. The book also discusses features of a description. The story unfolds in first - person with illustrations that...
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Sails: Police Work (1st edition)
Police Work is a narrative story about a police force searching through job applications to find a new undercover police officer. The book also discusses features of a description. The story unfolds in first - person with illustrations that...
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Same, but Different
Same, but Different is an expository text about animals that look the same and different. Readers learn about butterflies and moths, frogs and toads, and turtles and tortoises. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are labeled. An index...
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Science Readers: Adaptations
Adaptations is an expository text that explains how animals adapt and change over time as conditions change. An activity invites students to explore how blubber works. The book is divided into sections with some subsections. ...
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Science Readers: All in the Family
Learn all about traits and how they make you who you are! Discover how shared traits make offspring look like their parents. While members of the same species may look alike because of their common traits, they have unique traits so that each one is...
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Science Readers: Analyze It!
Analyze It! is an informational text that explains the scientific method including forming a question, researching, creating a hypothesis, conducting an experiment, recording and analyzing data, drawing a conclusion, and sharing the results. A...
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Science Readers: Animal Senses
Animal Senses is an expository text that explains how animals use their senses, often in ways very different from how humans do. An activity invites students to explore how the shape of an animal’s body parts relates to...
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Science Readers: Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier: Founder of Modern Chemistry is a biography of the pioneering chemist Lavoisier. Sidebars provide brief profiles of numerous other pioneers in science, including Marie and Pierre Curie, Linus Pauling, Rosalind Franklin, and Mario...
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Science Readers: Asteroids and Comets
Asteroids and Comets is an expository nonfiction text that explains asteroids, meteorites, and comets. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment...