Science Readers: Chemical Reactions

Chemical Reactions is an expository text that explores the concept of chemical reaction including what happens when you combine substances, how to examine properties, creating products, and different types of reactions. The book concludes with an experiment exploring various chemical reactions. 

The book is divided in chapters and contains a table of contents, glossary, and index.  Sentences vary in length and structure. Information is presented by the main text, sidebars, labeled photographs, and illustrations highlighting definitions and interesting facts.

Content-specific terminology such as chemical change, reactants, element, compound, physical change, chemical properties, iconic bond, and covalent bond is defined in context and in the glossary.

This title is from the Science Readers: Content and Literacy in Science series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.