Water Scientists

Water Scientists is an expository nonfiction text about water scientists who have studied the water cycle, rainfall, weather and everything related to water. The text goes into detail about Mahammed Karaji, Bernard Palissy, Edmond Halley, Henry Darcy and Pelageia Polubarinova-Kochina.  The text includes a section on environmental engineer Alexandria Boehm. Readers gain interesting 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 explore how water soaks into the Earth.

Water Scientists 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 and diagrams. 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. A full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, possessives, contractions, prepositional phrases, and verbs with inflection endings. 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.