Science Readers: Gravity

Gravity is an informational text that explores the concept of gravity, including the difference between weight and mass, inertia, and the effects of gravity on the earth and space. The book concludes with an experiment exploring the relationship between gravity and weight using hand weights and a ruler.    

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, diagrams, and illustrations highlighting definitions and interesting facts.

Content-specific terminology such as force, matter, inertia, evaporates, celestial, reaction, satellites, and orbiting, 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.