Everything Moves

Robert Roe

Everything Moves

Robert Roe

ISBN:

9781760861254

Binding:

Paperback

Published:

1 Jan 2019

Availability:

932

Series:

Flying Start to Literacy WorldWise

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$15.95 NZD

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Description

Title Information:­
Everything Moves: Everything Moves explores how the laws of motion are seen in everyday events such as kicking a ball, sledding, sailing and roller-coasting. The book focuses on how contact and noncontact contact forces lead to movement and how this movement interacts with the force of gravity and the effects of friction. It also introduces magnetism.

Content vocabulary:acting, cancel, combined, energy, exert, forces, friction, glide, gravity, hulls, invisible, laws of nature,  movement, plunge, pull, push, rubbing, sledding, slide, smooth, suspense

Key concepts:
All movement happens because of the application of a force  Gravity is a force that exists between all things  Pushes and pulls must overcome gravity and friction to move objects

Reading Strategies: Using a range of word-solving strategies

Related resource:Lesson Plan - Everything Moves

Series Information:

WorldWise is a high-interest literacy program that encourages inquiry and questioning while extending knowledge in science and a range of STEM topics linked to the curriculum. This engaging program teaches reading strategies simultaneously with natural, earth and physical science concepts – reflecting the diversity of the world students live in.

Students will develop strategies and skills to read informative texts across a range of text types while they learn to become informative text writers. With an assortment of text types on offer, themes and concepts are introduced and revisited across the reading stages, building on initial concepts with increasing complexity.

WorldWise Lesson Plans support each Student Book, offering practical, systematic and easy-to-implement instructions. These visually appealing resources integrate oral language, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension, writing and phonics.

WorldWise Investigations is a web-based tool that provides extension activities for titles in the program. It encourages exploration of content linked to curriculum outcomes in a deeper more hands-on way. Students are supported with a framework that encourages investigation and inquiry.

This series is supported by an array of teacher resources which can be obtained by visiting www.worldwise.com.au

Teacher Resources

Each WorldWise student book is supported by a corresponding Lesson Plan for teachers.

The following additional teacher resources are available:

  • Curriculum outcomes
  • Writing templates
  • Correlation charts which provide title-level information about alignment to curriculum

These additional teacher resources can be downloaded from www.worldwisereading.com.au/teacher-resources