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Science Readers: How Heat Moves
How Heat Moves is an informational text that explores how heat is generated when molecules move and transfer energy. The book concludes with an experiment that involves slowing the rate at which an ice cube melts. The book is divided...
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Science Readers: How Sound Moves
How Sound Moves is an informational text that explores sound waves and how our ears receive sound. The book concludes with an experiment investigating how sound is created by making a drum. The book is divided into chapters and contains a table of...
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Science Readers: How Toys Work
How Toys Work is an expository nonfiction text that explains simple machines, the science of toys, how toys work, and the science of spin. The back of the book includes a section on Scientists Then and Now. Readers gain information from text and graphics...
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Science Readers: I Spy
I Spy is an informational text about sorting objects by attributes, such a s colour, shape, and size . The book concludes with an activity written in procedural language. All the sentences are simple in structure...
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Science Readers: Inside a Plant
Inside a Plant is an informational text that explains the life cycle of a plant, as well as the parts of a plant and how plants grow. A two-page activity written in procedural language invites students to explore how plants get water to all of...
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Science Readers: Interdependence of Living Things
No living thing on Earth can survive without depending on the help of other living things. Learn all about interdependence and how familiar things rely on each other to live. Vibrant images pair with easy-to-read text to keep students engaged from cover...
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Science Readers: Landforms
Landforms is an informational text that describes a variety of landforms and introduces terms such as slope, elevation, plateau, canyon, continent, and peninsula. A two-page activity invites students to use dough to explore what makes...
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Science Readers: Life and Non-Life in an Ecosystem
Life and Non-Life in an Ecosystem is an expository text that explains the interdependence of living and non-living things, including the importance of soil and of the oxygen and nitrogen cycles. An activity invites students to explore...
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Science Readers: Life and the Flow of Energy
Life and the Flow of Energy is an expository text that explains how the sun is the source of all energy on Earth and describes photosynthesis, the energy of waste, and energy exchange in ecosystems. An activity invites students to explore...
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Science Readers: Life Cycles
Life Cycles is an informational text that explains the concept of a life cycle and provides examples of the life cycles of animals, plants, and humans. A two-page activity invites students to explore how insect and mammal life cycles are...
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Science Readers: Light and Its Effects
Light and Its Effects is an expository text that explores the concept of light including the light spectrum, the way light travels, how mirrors can distort images, and particles of light. The book concludes with an experiment exploring refraction using a...
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Science Readers: Light Makes a Rainbow
Light Makes a Rainbow is an informational text that explores how rainbows are created when water droplets bend waves of light. The book concludes with an experiment that involves creating a personal rainbow. The book is divided...