The World of Animals

The World of Animals is an expository nonfiction text that explores the world of animals from echinoderms and mollusks, to amphibians and mammals. The text also covers the classification system of taxonomy. Readers gain information from text and graphics. Multiple scientists and their work are highlighted in the text. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to test saliva from a dog and a human to see which grows more bacteria fastest.

The World of Animals is divided into sections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including labeled photos. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, exclamation marks and question marks are used. Italics are used in multiple ways. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences vary in the placement of the subject, verb, adjectives, and adverbs. Some complex sentences have a variety in the order of clauses and difficult words are given phonetically. A full range of plurals, contractions, compound words, and a variety of verbs with inflectional endings are used. The text makes use of similes to make comparisons. Sentences contain connectives, prepositional phrases and base words with affixes. Content-specific words are introduced and explained in the text. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text.

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