Oceans

Oceans is an expository nonfiction text that explains all about ocean biomes, ocean life and how to help protect the oceans. The back of the book includes a section on Scientists Then and Now. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third-person procedural language invites students to learn about climate adaptations.

Oceans is divided into sections with some subsections. Illustrations, such as some labeled photos, diagrams, maps that support the text. Fact boxes appear throughout the text to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks are used. A table of contents, glossary, and an index support the reader.

Simple plurals using ­–s and –es, verbs with the –ed and -ing inflectional endings are used. Subordinate clauses, similes, and comparative adjectives, such as larger and tallest, are used in the text. Some sentences contain adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, connectives, and compound words. Hyphenated words are used. The text occasionally makes use of parenthetical material 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: A Closer Look series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.