Science: Informational Text
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What Do Living Things Need?
by Elizabeth Austen
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This book introduces students to the things that humans need to live: food, shelter, water, and air. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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Predict It!
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about scientific predictions through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
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I Spy
by Anne Montgomery
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Learn how to sort by color and shape! This book introduces students to the concept of sorting objects. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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Make It Healthy
by Lisa Greathouse
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Learn how to make healthier foods with the help of this science reader.
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Climate
by Torrey Maloof
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about climate through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
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Get Moving
by Lisa Greathouse
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Inspire students to get moving and be more active with this colorful science reader.
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Condensation
by William Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
How does a gas change to a liquid? Through condensation! Condensation is the liquid that appears on your bathroom mirror after a hot shower. It is the big gray clouds in the sky just before a rain. In this book, learn all about condensation and how it happens.
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Environment
A World of Change
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
The Earth is always changing! But these changes are a part of the cycle of life. Learn about the water cycle, the rock cycle, natural disasters, and adaptations with this science reader that features easy-to-read text and introduces students to important scientific concepts and topics. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.
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Rachel Carson
Nature's Guardian
by Gina Dal Fuoco
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Rachel Carson is one of the most influential leaders of the modern environmental movement. This enlightening biography allows readers to discover the inspiring life of Carson and the impact she made on the environment through a variety of colorful images and easy-to-read text. A glossary and index are provided to aid in better understanding of such topics as chemical pesticides, deforestation, preservationism, and ecosystems. Readers will love the stimulating hands-on lab activity and will be eager to learn more!
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Investigating Forces and Motion
by Jane Weir
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Force and motion are all around us and help us move and do great things! Through a variety of vivid images and stunning facts, readers will explore how forces and motions work. The easy-to-read text and accessible glossary and index ensure that readers have the tools they need to understand such concepts as gravity, equilibrium, acceleration, deceleration, electromagnetic fields, pressure, kinetic energy, and inertia. To gain further insight into how gravity, forces, and motion works, a stimulating lab activity is featured!
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All in the Family
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Have you ever noticed that children look like their parents? This is because they have shared traits. With easy-to-read text and detailed images, this science reader introduces students to the concept of inherited traits. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, bold font, and detailed images to keep students connected to the text. A hands-on science experiment helps students apply what they have learned and develops critical thinking skills.
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Pioneers of Earth Science
by Lynn Van Gorp
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Gerardus Mercator, John Wesley Powell, Grove Karl Gilbert, William Morris Davis, Albrecht Penck, and Florence Bascom are some of the incredible geologists and geographers that readers will learn about in this biographical title. With a variety of colorful, vivid images and graphs, easy-to-read text, and intriguing facts and sidebars, readers will be excited and engaged from cover to cover! Readers will feel confident in their growing scientific knowledge with the featured glossary and index, while the captivating lab activity provides a stimulating hands-on approach!
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We Are Here
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This high-interest nonfiction reader will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled text features hands-on, simple science experiments and full-color images and graphics. Fourth grade students will learn all about the solar system and the universe through this engaging text that supports STEM education and is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.
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Growth and Change
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Learn how baby animals like pandas, penguins, elephants, kittens, and frogs grow and change! This science reader introduces students to the concepts of growth and change. With easy-to-read text, this book teaches students important scientific subjects and vocabulary terms. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, bold font, and detailed images to keep students connected to the text. A hands-on science experiment helps students apply what they have learned and develops critical thinking skills.
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Jane Goodall
Animal Scientist and Friend
by Connie Jankowski
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Jane Goodall is the world's leading authority on chimpanzees. This inspiring biography will have readers engaged and delighted as they learn about Goodall's life as a primatologist amongst the chimps and how her incredible research changed the way scientists view these amazing animals. Through vibrant photos, captivating facts, and easy-to-read text, readers will discover such topics as ethology, extinction, field research, DNA, and genes, as well as the various types of apes--from orangutans to gorillas. A captivating hands-on lab activity is featured to encourage readers to explore other aspects of science!
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Cell Scientists
Discovering How Cells Work
by Kimberly Fekany Lee
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Many scientists have dedicated their lives to finding out how cells work. In this appealing book, readers will learn about scientists whose research on cells has made a big impact on the world of science. Robert Hooke, Joan Wright Goodman, Mathias Schleiden, Hans Krebs, Gerty and Carl Cori, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Stanley Cohen, and Elaine Fuchs are some of the inspiring scientists that are featured, as well as such topics as cell theory and DNA. The vibrant photos, fascinating facts, and engaging sidebars work in conjunction with the easy-to-read text, accessible glossary and index, and captivating hands-on lab activity to provide readers with an inviting reading experience that will leave them eager to learn more!
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People and the Planet
by Torrey Maloof
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about the impact of human actions on the Earth through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
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The Wonder of Outer Space
by Connie Jankowski
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Come explore the wonders of space in this intriguing title that uses numerous vivid images, fascinating facts, and easy-to-read text to both delight and engage readers! From satellites to space food, observatories to Sputnik, readers will learn all about space and the various ways people have explored and learned about astronomy for years! A creative hands-on lab activity is featured to encourage children to explore astronomy even further!
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The Right Environment
by Debra J. Housel
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about ecosystems and the environment through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
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Spaceship Earth
by Gina Dal Fuoco
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This enlightening book asks readers to explore the ideas of environmental science by imagining Earth as a spaceship with a limited amount of resources. With a creative outlook, stunning images, easy-to-read text, and an accommodating glossary and index, readers will learn about important topics like global warming, greenhouse gases, deforestation, pollution, biodiversity, and other environmental issues. An intriguing hands-on lab activity will leave children interested and eager to learn more!
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Evaporation
by William Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
How does a liquid become a gas? Through evaporation! Evaporation helps make puddles disappear after it rains. In this book, learn all about evaporation and how it happens.
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Motion
by Debra J. Housel
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Introduce students to the concept of motion with this science reader that features easy-to-read text. This book teaches important scientific topics and vocabulary including Newton's Laws of Motion, force, drag, and friction. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.
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Growing Up
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This book introduces students to the concepts of growth and change. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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Our Sun
by William Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
The sun gives us warmth and light. It makes the seasons change. Our sun is very important! Learn about the sun with this engaging science reader. With easy-to-read text, this book teaches students important scientific concepts and vocabulary. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, bold font, and detailed images to keep students connected to the text. A hands-on science experiment helps students apply what they have learned and develops critical thinking skills.
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Earth's Moon
by Christina Hill
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about the moon through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
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How Amusement Parks Work
by Lisa Greathouse
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This book will be a hit with both thrill seekers and with those who prefer to stay safely on the ground. After an introduction to Newton's three laws of motion, readers learn the mechanics of various amusement park rides including roller coasters, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and gravity rides. They learn how to measure motion, and how kinetic and potential energy apply to their favorite rides.
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Heart
by Lisa Greathouse
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
There is an amazing muscle inside your body. It pumps blood and keeps you healthy. What is it? Your heart! Read all about it in this colorful and engaging title.
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Healthy Habits, Healthy You
by Lisa Greathouse
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This vibrant science title gives readers insight into how they can form healthy habits. Be a healthier you!
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Water Bodies
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Introduce students to the concept of water bodies with this science reader that features easy-to-read text. This book teaches important scientific topics and vocabulary terms including freshwater, saltwater, swamp, bog, wetland, marsh, reservoir, evaporation, precipitation, and more. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.
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Interdependence of Living Things
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
All living things need one another to survive. Working together keeps the circle of life going. Learn about symbiosis with this science reader that features easy-to-read text and introduces students to important scientific concepts and topics. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.
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How Toys Work
by Lisa Greathouse
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Readers won't have to disassemble their favorite toys to discover what makes them work. This book explores electric, magnetic, and motion-powered toys from design to function. It introduces readers to six simple machines and explains how they use force and motion to do work. Not every toy is a technological marvel. Readers learn about time-honored favorites including the rocking horse, Slinky, and rattles.
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Sort It!
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Learn how to think like a scientist! This book introduces students to the concepts of sorting and categorization. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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Earth and Moon
by Torrey Maloof
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Learn about the Earth and the Moon with this engaging science reader. With easy-to-read text, this book teaches students important scientific concepts and vocabulary including the phases of the Moon, the movement of the Earth around the sun, and the rotation of the Earth. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, bold font, and detailed images to keep students connected to the text. A hands-on science experiment helps students apply what they have learned and develops critical thinking skills.
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Looking Up!
by Torrey Maloof
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Look up at the night sky. What do you see? This nonfiction reader introduces students to the subject of scientific observation, and teaches students about the things we use to observe and learn about the world around us. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains easy-to-read text and nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, bold font, and detailed images to keep students connected to the text. A hands-on science experiment helps students apply what they have learned and develops critical thinking skills.
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Tell Me About It
by Anne Montgomery
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Rough and soft. Hot and cold. Wet and dry. How do you tell the difference? This book introduces students to the concept of opposites. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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All About Mitosis and Meiosis
by Elizabeth Cregan
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis? Children will learn the answer through this stimulating book that features stunning images and photos, captivating facts, engaging sidebars, and easy-to-read text. The steps of mitosis and meiosis--including interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis, and meiosis I and meiosis II--are explained in easy-to-read text. The accessible glossary and index ensure that readers have the tools they need to better understand the content. Featuring an engaging lab activity, this book will have readers captivated and delighted from beginning to end!
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Hippocrates
Making the Way for Medicine
by Connie Jankowski
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Hippocrates is often referred to as The Father of Medicine. This captivating biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Hippocrates and how he had a major impact on the world of medicine. Along with learning about his belief in the four humors, his discovery of pneumonia, and the Hippocratic Oath, readers will also learn about some other inspirational scientists who made leaps in the medical field. Featuring colorful images and easy-to-read text working in conjunction with intriguing facts and a stimulating lab activity, this book will have children eager to learn more!
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The World of Animals
by Joshua BishopRoby
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Animals come in all shapes and sizes! The lively images, compelling facts, and captivating sidebars work in conjunction with the supportive text and a glossary and index to give readers plenty of information on taxonomy. Readers will discover the various kingdoms and classes of the animal world including echinoderms, arthropods, chordates, amphibians, birds, and mammals. To aid in engaging readers in further scientific topics and themes, an alluring hands-on lab activity is included!
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From Hubble to Hubble
Astronomers and Outer Space
by Connie Jankowski
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Telescopes and high-tech equipment help astronomers explore deep space. This captivating title introduces readers to some of the most notable scientists who helped develop technology that allows for space exploration, such as Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Annie Cannon, George Ellery Hale, Lyman Spitzer, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The vibrant, stunning images and easy-to-read text will have readers engaged and eager to learn more about such topics as interstellar matter, pulsars, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and astrophysics! Readers are encouraged to explore astronomy even further with the featured lab activity!
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Raising Babies
What Animal Parents Do
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
How do animals raise their young? Each animal has its own way! This science reader introduces students to various animal families including penguins, elephants, kangaroos, polar bears, wolves, ants, and more. With vivid, engaging images and easy-to-read text, this book teaches students important scientific concepts and vocabulary terms. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, and bold font to keep students connected to the text. A hands-on science experiment helps students apply what they have learned and develops critical thinking skills.
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Analyze It!
by Torrey Maloof
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Introduce students to the scientific method with this science reader that features easy-to-read text. This book teaches important scientific topics and vocabulary terms including hypothesis, data, experiment, conclusion, method, research, and more. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.
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Here Comes the Sun
by Dona Herweck Rice
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
The sun is essential for human life. This book introduces students to the concept of the sun and discusses its importance. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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Nature Made
by Anne Montgomery
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Nature gives us many useful things. Sunlight, rocks, trees, plants, and sand are resources. This book introduces students to the concept of natural resources. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young students as they improve their reading skills. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage students in learning with this dynamic text!
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Inside the World of Matter
by Jane Weir
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
Readers will learn about the basics of matter, including the three states of matter--solid, liquid, and gas--as well as atoms and elements, the periodic table of elements, compound elements, and mixtures. Through vivid images and photos, engaging facts, and accessible glossary and index, readers will be delighted and captivated as they learn about matter and get an introduction to the basics of chemistry. An appealing hands-on lab activity will help readers further understand the separation of mixtures.
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Composition of Matter
by Morgaine Paris
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This nonfiction science reader will help fifth grade students gain science content knowledge while building their reading comprehension and literacy skills. This purposefully leveled text features hands-on, challenging science experiments and full-color images. Students will learn all about matter, subatomic particles, the periodic table of elements, and much more through this engaging text that supports STEM education and is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Important text features like a glossary and index will improve students close reading skills.
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The Powerful Ocean
by Shelly Buchanan
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
This nonfiction science reader will help fifth grade students gain science content knowledge while building their reading comprehension and literacy skills. This purposefully leveled text features hands-on, challenging science experiments and full-color images. Students will learn all about the ocean, underwater land features, currents, and much more through this engaging text that supports STEM education and is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Important text features like a glossary and index will improve students close reading skills.
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Living!
by Elizabeth Austen
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
It is time to learn about living things! Can you spot which things are living? Can you tell which things are nonliving? With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young readers. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity provide more in-depth opportunities for additional learning. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage young learners with this dynamic text!
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Baby Animals
by Elizabeth Austen
Part of the Science: Informational Text series
A baby kangaroo is a joey. A baby hamster is a pup. Learn about baby animals with this full-color text that is filled with images of children's favorite animals. With simple sentences, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young readers. A fun and easy science experiment and Your Turn! activity extend the learning experience. Nonfiction text features include a glossary and an index. Engage young learners with this dynamic text!