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Science Readers: What a Scientist Sees
What A Scientist Sees is an expository text that explains the scientific method including observation and research, hypothesis, prediction, experimentation, analysis, and report. An experiment invites students to explore how a magnifying...
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Science Readers: What Do Living Things Need?
What Do Living Things Need? is an informational text about living things’ basic needs, such as light, water, food, air, and protection. The book concludes with an activity written in procedural language. All...
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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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Science Tricks
Science Tricks is a collection of scientific experiments exploring floating a needle in water, density, and raw versus hard-boiled eggs. The book also discusses how to give instructions. Illustrations support and enhance the text. Some text is in the...
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Scientist Lucy
Scientist Lucy is a collection of scientific experiments surrounding various topics all of which are explained by a little girl named Lucy. The book also discusses how to give instructions. Illustrations support and enhance the text. Some text is in the...
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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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SENSES
Senses is an expository nonfiction text that explains the five senses, including taste, touch, see, smell, and hear. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page...
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Shamus
Shamus is a humorous fiction story about a sheep farmer, Tilly, thinking her sheep are boring because they always do the same thing and copy one another. When it was time for sheep shearing, one sheep, Shamus, hid in a rock cave. Shamus hid there and...
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Shar
Shar is a realistic, fictional text about a puppy named Shar who tears up pillows, slippers, and books, which angers the mother of the house. Illustrations fully support the meaning of the text. Dialogue is bolded. Interest words include slippers and...
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Shark Scare
Shark Scare! is a realistic adventure presented as a first-person recount. A young snorkeller on vacation is determined to snap a photo of a “Grandaddy Snapper” before his holiday is over. He dismisses talk at the beach of a...