Stars.

Stars is an expository nonfiction text that explains all about starts, including the universe, constellations, and galaxies. The back of the book includes a paragraph on one of today’s scientists. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third-person procedural language invites students to build the sun with an apple, modeling clay, tissue paper, glue and a craft knife.

Stars is divided into sections. Illustrations, such as some labeled photos and diagrams that support the text. Fact boxes appear throughout the text to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks are used. A table of contents, glossary, and an index support the reader.

Simple plurals using ­–s and –es, verbs with the –ed and -ing inflectional endings are used. Subordinate clauses and comparative adjectives, such as bigger and smaller, are used in the text. Some sentences contain adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, connectives, and compound words. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text.

This title is from the Science Readers: A Closer Look series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest,ppropriately levelled information texts.