Science Readers: Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier: Founder of Modern Chemistry is a biography of the pioneering chemist Lavoisier.  Sidebars provide brief profiles of numerous other pioneers in science, including Marie and Pierre Curie, Linus Pauling, Rosalind Franklin, and Mario Molina.  The book concludes with an activity written in procedural language.

 The book has a contents and is divided into sections with headings.  Most sentences are simple in structure.  Captioned and labelled photographs, historical photographs and illustrations, sidebars, and diagrams support the text and add meaning.  Phonetic pronunciation guides are provided for specialized vocabulary.  A glossary and index are provided.

Unfamiliar words and specialized vocabulary are defined in context and in the glossary.

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.