Oil on Water

Oil on Water is an expository non-fiction text about oil spills and how they affect marine animals, birds, and fish as well as information on how they are cleaned up. The book also discusses features of an informational report.

The text unfolds in third-person in the format of a beginning chapter book including a table of contents and an index with some text in the form of a bulleted list. Photographs support and enhance the text.

Oil on Water varies in sentence length and structure with the use of some procedural language.  Some sentences begin with subordinate clauses, phrases, or transitional words. The text uses a wide variety of punctuation including parenthesis, colon, apostrophes, and hyphens.

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