Science Readers: From Hubble to Hubble - Astronomers and Outer Space

From Hubble to Hubble Astronomers and Outer Space is an expository nonfiction text that explores the history of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, observatory builder George Ellery Hale, Lyman Spitzer, and pulsars. The text includes a section on geologist Joy Crisp. Readers gain interesting information from text and graphics. Multiple scientists and their work are highlighted in the text. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to create mini constellation view and to try and find some constellations in the night sky.

From Hubble to Hubble Astronomers and Outer Space is divided into sections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including labeled photos. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks, and question marks are used. Dashes are used to expand on an idea. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences structures and lengths vary with a wide variety of parts of speech including adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Base words with affixes, possessives, and a full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, contractions, and verbs with inflection endings. The text occasionally uses parentheses embedded in sentences. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Some words appear in the vocabulary of mature language users.

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.