Wetlands

Wetland is an expository nonfiction text that explains wetlands and where they fit in to the environment, wetlands animals and plants, and different species living together. The back of the book includes a section on Scientists Then and Now. Readers gain information from text and graphics. A two-page experiment written in third-person procedural language invites students to explore what makes an ecosystem.

Wetlands is divided into sections. Illustrations, such as some labeled photos, diagrams, cycles, and charts that support the text. Fact boxes appear throughout the text to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, quotations marks, question marks, and exclamation marks are used. A table of contents, glossary, and an index support the reader.

Plurals, base words with affixes, and verbs with the –ed and –ing inflectional endings are used. Subordinate clauses and comparative adjectives, such as harder and faster, are used in the text. The text contains adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, connectives, and compound words. Hyphenated words are used. The text occasionally makes use of parenthetical material 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: A Closer Look series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.