Science Readers: Landforms

Landforms is an informational text that describes a variety of landforms and introduces terms such as slope, elevation, plateau, canyon, continent, and peninsula.  A two-page activity  invites students to use dough to explore what makes landforms alike and different. 

The book is divided into sections with some subsections.  Sentences vary in length and structure.  Illustrations in a variety of forms, including captioned or labeled photographs and diagrams, and maps are used to convey information. Fact boxes add additional information. A table of contents, glossary and index support the reader.

Content-specific words are explained and illustrated in the text. Glossary words are bolded throughout the text.

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.