Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of Electromagnetism

Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of Electromagnetism is an expository nonfiction text about inventor Thomas Edison, the radio invention, and pioneers of electromagnetism such as Benjamin Franklin, Hans Christian Oersted, and Michael Faraday. The text includes a section on astronomer Margaret Kivelson. Readers gain interesting information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to create an electromagnet.

Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of Electromagnetism is divided into sections with some subsections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including drawings, labeled photos, diagrams, and a map. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks, and question marks are used. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences structures and lengths vary with a wide variety of parts of speech. Base words with affixes, possessives, and a full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, contractions, prepositional phrases, and verbs with inflection endings. The text occasionally uses parentheses embedded in sentences. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Some words appear in the vocabulary of mature language users.

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.