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Saving Zoop
Saving Zoop is a realistic narrative about a boy who catches an otter because he thinks the otter’s river is too muddy. After storing him in his shed, he realizes that his plan is killing the otter and decides to release him back to his home in the...
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Scarecrow's Hair
Scarecrow’s Hair Scarecrow’s Hair is a lighthearted fantasy about a scarecrow who is sad because he has no hair and a farmer who goes to great lengths to make his scarecrow happy. The story is told through simple dialogue and narrative...
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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...
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Science Readers: Astronomers Through Time
Astronomers Through Time is an expository nonfiction text about astronomers who have made a big impact in the field of astronomy. Astronomers include Hypatia of Alexandria, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, Carl Sagan and Margaret...
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Science Readers: Baby Animals
Baby Animals is a simple informational text that introduces the words used to name baby animals. The text has a repeating pattern: each two-page spread reads “2 ___” and “1 ___.” A two-page activity written in...
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Science Readers: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces is an informational text that explores various forces such as contact forces, distant forces, and combined forces as well as the three laws of motion. The book concludes with an experiment exploring lift, gravity, and air...
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Science Readers: Bikes and Boards
Bikes and Boards is an expository nonfiction text that explains the science of bikes and boards, motion and force, testing the limits with tricks, snowboarding, aerodynamics, and the future of bikes and boards. The back of the book includes a section on...