Science Readers: Too Much Trash!

Too Much Trash is an informational text that describes the harmful effects of pollution. The text uses  the sentence stem “It harms _____.” A two-page experiment written in procedural language invites students to explore what happens to trash when it is buried and then dug up after five weeks. 

Each two-page spread contains one line of text and photographs that support the text directly.  The book has a glossary and an index.

The glossary supports vocabulary development.

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.