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Science Readers: What Is the Weather?
What Is the Weather? is an informational text that describes how different types of weather make people feel. The book concludes with an activity written in procedural language. All the sentences are simple in...
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Science Readers: What Makes a Plant?
What Makes a Plant is an informational text that explains the life cycle of a plant and how new plants look like their parent. A two-page activity written in procedural language invites students to explore the parts of a plant. The...
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Science Readers: What the Evidence Shows
What the Evidence Shows is an expository text that explains the importance of evidence in science and provides a set of rules for gathering good evidence. An experiment invites students to explore how to think like a scientific...
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Scuba Diving
Scuba Diving is an expository text about the training and skills scuba divers need to explore or do jobs underwater. The style is informative and conversational. The text is composed of a variety of sentence types. Captioned and labelled...
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Shell Homes
Shell Homes is an expository text about animals that live in shells, such as tortoises, snails, and crabs. Readers are invited to learn about how large or small shells are and why they are important to these animals. Illustrations enhance and...
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Shells
Shells is an expository nonfiction text that explains how a crab, turtle, and people use big shells as well as how people use little shells. Readers gain information from the text, photographs, and labels. Shells includes critical thinking questions to...
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Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks is an informational report. The text describes how failures of a vessel, mistakes, and bad weather can account for shipwrecks. Readers learn about discoveries of long ago shipwrecks, from a 2000-year-old wreck to famous wrecks such...
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Shosun's Mistake
Shosun’s Mistake is a science fiction story about a boy named Palo who helps an alien to get a sample of a virus back to his home planet in order to find a cure before the virus kills the Earth. The book also discusses features of a science fiction...
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Slimy Skin
Slimy Skin is an expository text about animals that have slimy skins such as frogs, fish, worms, and snails. A picture of each animal that has slimy skin is depicted on a two-page spread. In each photograph, the animal is labeled. Interest words include...
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Smelling!
Smelling! is an expository book that invites readers to learn about how animals smell different things like food and danger. How animals smell with their beaks, noses, tongues, and feet, is discussed. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. The body...
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Smelly Skunks
Smelly Skunks is an expository text about skunks. Readers are invited to learn about where skunks live, how skunks make smells, what they eat, and how they take care of their young. Illustrations enhance and extend meaning. Photographs are labeled and...
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Smithsonian Readers 1: Being Like Butterflies
What do solar panels, waterproof clothing, and window coverings have in common? They are technologies that have been adapted based on studying butterflies! Learn about the amazing butterfly with this title that builds students' literacy...