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Energy.
Energy is an expository non-fiction text about energy including information on renewable energy, solar energy, wind energy, and hydro-electric power. The book also discusses features of an informational explanation. The text unfolds in third-person...
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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...
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Little Fish
Little Fish is a humorous, fictional text about a seahorse who points out different parts of the animals that swim past them such as the legs and teeth. Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Speech bubbles are used. Interest words include...
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Max.
Max is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a dog named Max who went to stay with friends and missed his owner Colin. Each day, Max did something different like sit under a tree, sleep, and dream…until he played with the other dogs,...
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Nonfiction Readers 3: Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is a biography of the famous scientist who transformed our understanding of chimpanzees. The text covers Goodall’s childhood, her work with the chimpanzees of Gombe, and her life outside work. The style is conversational and...
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Science Readers: DNA
DNA is an expository text that explains DNA, genes, chromosomes, genetics, the human genome, and cloning. A two-page activity invites students to explore the ideas in the text. The book is divided into sections with some subsections. ...
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Science Readers: Energy
Energy is an informational text that explores different kinds of energy and the forces it creates. The book concludes with an experiment that involves using different sized marbles to investigate the transfer of energy. The book...
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Smithsonian Readers 1: Making Music
How do the size and shape of a trumpet's bell affect its sound? How do the levers, hammers, and strings of a piano work together to make music? Discover the answers to these questions with this title that builds students' literacy skills...
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Stars.
Stars is an expository nonfiction text that explains all about starts, including the universe, constellations, and galaxies. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A...
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The Tunnel.
The Tunnel is a realistic fiction story about different animals going in a tunnel. Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, and caption. The Tunnel uses the sentence stem “The _____ are going in.” Illustrations match the text...
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Tornadoes
Tornadoes is an expository nonfiction text that explains what makes a tornado, where tornadoes happen, after a tornado, and if a tornado can be stopped. The back of the book includes a section on Scientists Then and Now. Readers gain information from...
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Tornadoes.
Tornadoes is an informational report. The text describes why tornadoes are dangerous, how to stay safe, how animals are in danger, and how scientists study tornadoes. Readers gain a comprehensive picture of this phenomenon, from how tornadoes...