Science Readers: Sound Waves and Communication

Sound Waves and Communication is an expository text exploring the concept of sound including measuring sound and how sound travels. The book concludes with an experiment exploring sound waves.   

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

Content-specific terminology such as particles, molecules, compressed, wavelength, frequency, Doppler effect, and ultrasound 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.