Weather Scientists

Weather Scientists is an expository nonfiction text about early weather scientists, the Coriolis force, the Gulf Stream, and continuing the work of the weather pioneers, such as the radar and Doppler radar. The text includes a section on climate scientist Inez Fung. 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 raindrops form.

Weather Scientists is divided into sections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including maps, and 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.