Max Planck: Uncovering the World of Matter

Max Planck Uncovering the World of Matter is an expository nonfiction text about physicist Max Planck and some of his work including heat and movement, and the Quantum Theory. The text includes a section on physicist Frances Hellman and a two-page spread on Sally Ride: the first American woman to fly in space. Readers gain interesting 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 learn how to separate mixtures.

Max Planck Uncovering the World of Matter 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, exclamation marks, quotation marks, 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. Base words with affixes, possessives, and a full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, contractions, prepositional phrases, and verbs with inflection endings. The text occasionally uses parentheses embedded in sentences. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Some words appear in the vocabulary of mature language users.

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.