Science Readers: Electromagnetism

Electromagnetism is an informational text that explores the concepts of electromagnetism, currents, circuits, and electricity. The book concludes with an experiment that involves building an electromagnet using a battery, copper wire, paper clips, and a pencil.

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, captions, labeled photographs, and illustrations highlighting definitions and interesting facts.

Content-specific terminology such as magnetism, static electricity, electrons, protons, orbit, neutrons, and current 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.