California Leveled Science Readers (Grade 5) Content leveled readers teach science concepts, vocabulary, and reading skills – at each student’s reading level – and allow students to read and explore the wonders of nonfiction. Leveled science readers deliver science content to help address the individual needs of all students. They reinforce reading skills and strategies while promoting science understanding. Each grade 5 science reader is a richly illustrated, selfcontained little book with 10 to 14 double pages. BELOW 5.1 Building Blocks of Matter (Physical Sciences) 5.2 Changes in Matter (Physical Sciences) 5.3 Basic Structures of Organisms (Life Sciences) 5.4 MISSING 5.5 Water on Earth (Earth Sciences) 5.6 Weather (Earth Sciences) 5.7 The Solar System (Earth Sciences) ON 5.1 Understanding Matter (Physical Sciences) 5.2 How Matter Changes (Physical Sciences) 5.3 The Building Blocks of Organisms (Life Sciences) 5.4 Systems of the Human Body (Life Sciences) 5.5 Earths Hydrosphere (Earth Sciences) 5.6 How Weather Works (Earth Sciences) 5.7 Earths Solar System (Earth Sciences) ADVANCED 5.1 Atoms (Physical Sciences) 5.2 Acids and Bases at Work (Physical Sciences) 5.3 MISSING 5.4 MISSING 5.5 MISSING 5.6 Hurricanes (Earth Sciences) 5.7 The Red Planet (Earth Sciences)
Earth Sciences Standards Preview 4.c Students know the causes and effects of different types of severe weather Standard Set Earth Sciences Energy from the Sun heats Earth unevenly, causing air movements that result in changing weather patterns As a basis for understanding this concept: 4.d Students know how to use weather maps and data to predict local weather and know that weather forecasts depend on many variables 4.a Students know uneven heating of Earth causes air movements (convection currents) 4.e Students know that the Earth’s atmosphere exerts a pressure that decreases with distance above Earth’s surface and that at any point it exerts this pressure equally in all directions 4.b Students know the influence that the ocean has on the weather and the role that the water cycle plays in weather patterns Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Draw Conclusions Text Features • • • • Captions Labels Charts Glossary Science Content Weather Scott Foresman Science 5.6 ISBN 0-328-23467-2 ì