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)
Life Sciences Standards Preview 2.e Students know how sugar, water, and minerals are transported in a vascular plant Standard Set Life Sciences Plants and animals have structures for respiration, digestion, waste disposal, and transport of materials As a basis for understanding this concept: 2.f Students know plants use carbon dioxide (CO2) and energy from sunlight to build molecules of sugar and release oxygen 2.a Students know many multicellular organisms have specialized structures to support the transport of materials 2.g Students know plant and animal cells break down sugar to obtain energy, a process resulting in carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (respiration) by Lillian Duggan Genre Comprehension Skill Nonfiction Make Generalizations Text Features • • • • Captions Diagrams Labels Glossary Science Content Structures of Living Things Scott Foresman Science 5.3 ISBN 0-328-23570-9 ì