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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...
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Science Readers: Living!
Living! is a simple informational text about living and non-living things. The book has the repeating language pattern of “I spy ___.” A two-page activity in procedural language invites...
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Science Readers: Looking Up!
Looking Up! is an informational text that describes what we can observe in the night sky with our eyes and with a telescope. An experiment invites students to observe how the moon moves across the sky in one-hour intervals. Questions posed directly...
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Science Readers: Message Received!
Message Received! is an informational text that explores how our eyes and ears receive messages that help us understand the world. The book concludes with an experiment that involves musical water glasses. The book is...
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Science Readers: Mixtures and Solutions
Mixtures and Solutions is an expository text that explores the concepts mixtures including heterogeneous mixtures, homogeneous mixtures, suspensions, and colloids as well as solutions including, aqueous solutions and solubility. The book concludes with...
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Science Readers: Motion
Motion is an informational text that explores the concepts of friction, drag, and Newton’s Laws of Motion. The book concludes with an experiment investigating different forces using hard-boiled eggs. The book is divided in chapters and contains a...
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Science Readers: Nature Made
Nature Made is an informational text that explores the things we use from nature such as trees, rocks, sand, metal, and food. The book ends with an activity which involves building a structure using materials from nature. Text is presented in...