Science Readers: Forces

Forces is an informational text that explores push and pull forces such as gravity, friction, magnetism, and buoyancy. The book concludes with an experiment investigating different forces using balloons and a bucket of water.  

The book is divided in chapters and contains a table of contents, glossary, and index.  Sentences vary in length and structure. Captioned and labelled illustrations and photographs support the text.

Content-specific vocabulary such as gravity, mass, orbits, friction, magnetism, and buoyancy is defined in context and in the glossary.  Some new vocabulary is followed by the pronunciation in brackets.

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.