Louis Pasteur and The Fight Against Germs

Louis Pasteur and the Fight Against Germs is an expository nonfiction text that explores all about the great French scientist, Louis Pasteur, including his early years, entry into chemistry, becoming a professor and helping save the French industry. The text includes a section on microbiologist Rita Colwell. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to test how effective handwashing is in preventing the spread of germs.

Louis Pasteur and the Fight Against Germs 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 and a map. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, exclamation marks and question marks are used. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences vary in the placement of the subject, verb, adjectives, and adverbs. Some complex sentences have a variety in the order of clauses and difficult words are given phonetically. A full range of plurals, contractions, possessives, compound words, and a variety of verbs with inflectional endings are used. Sentences contain connectives, prepositional phrases and base words with affixes. Content-specific words are introduced and explained in the text. 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.