Volcanoes

Volcanoes is an expository nonfiction text that explains the concept of pressure and describes what makes a volcano, where volcanoes happen, and what happens during an eruption.  Underwater volcanoes, the Ring of Fire, and even volcanoes in outer space are showcased.  A lab at the end of the book written in procedural language prompts students to explore the theory of continental drift.  The book concludes with a Scientists Then and Now feature that profiles Alfred Wegener and Tanya Atwater

The book has a table of contents and is divided into sections with main headings.  Captioned and labelled photographs, maps, diagrams, and sidebars provide information to support and extend the text.  Most sentences are simple in structure.  Phonetic pronunciation of unfamiliar words is provided in parentheses and important terms are given in bold face.  A glossary and index are provided.

Unfamiliar words and specialized vocabulary are defined in context and in the glossary.  Descriptive language, such as “crashes into a brick wall” and “the soda shoots out” is used.

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.