Acknowledgments....................................................................................................................................................................vii

Chapter 1: Getting Started........................................................................................................................................................1

Chapter 2: The Reading Strategies..........................................................................................................................................9

Chapter 3: How Do You Know That? Helping Students With Claims and Evidence........................................................21

Chapter 4: A-Maze-ing Worms..............................................................................................................................................27

Topics: scientific method, controlling variables

Reading Strategies: comprehension coding, reading in groups

Chapter 5: Cells R Us..............................................................................................................................................................41

Topics: plant, animal, and bacteria cells; cell parts; prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Reading Strategy: using context clues to find the meaning of new words

Chapter 6: Healing Powers.....................................................................................................................................................53

Topics: cell cycle, mitosis

Reading Strategy: previewing diagrams and illustrations

Chapter 7: No Bones About It................................................................................................................................................61

Topics: characteristics of arthropods, invertebrates, skeletal and muscular systems

Reading Strategy: identifying text signals for examples and lists

Chapter 8: The Case of the Tree Hit Man...................................................................................................................71

Topics: plant structure and function (roots, stems, and leaves), vascular tissue in plants

(xylem and phloem)

Reading Strategy: previewing diagrams and illustrations

Chapter 9: A Gene for Drunkenness?...................................................................................................................................81

Topics: genetics, gene and environment interactions, human disease

Reading Strategy: chunking

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Chapter 10: Oh! I Gotta Pee!...........................................................................................................................................93

Topics: urinary system, homeostasis

Reading Strategy: pause, retell, and compare

Chapter 11: A Crisis of Crabs.....................................................................................................................................103

Topics: food chains and webs, biotic and abiotic factors, interconnections in ecology

Reading Strategy: pause, retell, and compare

Chapter 12: The Outsiders.........................................................................................................................................113

Topics: classification, tentative nature of science, protists

Reading Strategy: chunking

Chapter 13: Some Like It Hot.....................................................................................................................................123

Topics: adaptation, natural selection, penguins

Reading Strategy: identifying text signals for comparisons and contrasts

Chapter 14: Bacteria: The good, the bad, and getting rid of the ugly....................................................................135

Topics: bacteria structure, bacteria diversity, bacteria culturing

Reading Strategy: using context clues to find the meaning of new words

Chapter 15: Hunting the Ancient Whales.................................................................................................................145

Topics: macroevolution, evidence for evolution, characteristics of mammals

Reading Strategy: recognizing and reading scientific names

Index...............................................................................................................................................................................157

About the Author..........................................................................................................................................................161Table of Contents

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