Looking Inside Cells

Looking Inside Cells is an expository nonfiction text that explores all about cells such as, shape and size, cell membranes, diffusion, inside cells, cell movement, and making more cells. Readers gain information from text and graphics. Multiple scientists and their work are highlighted in the text. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to make their own simple light microscope to see how early biologists examined their specimens.

Looking Inside Cells is divided into sections with some subsections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including labeled photos. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, and question marks are used. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences structures and lengths vary with a wide variety of parts of speech. A full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, prepositional phrases, verbs with inflection endings, and base words with affixes. Difficult, scientific words are given phonetically in parentheses. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text.

This title is from the Science Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.