Space and Our

Solar System

by Anne Giulieri

Space and Our Solar System

EIL: 16 Nonfiction

Word count: 278

Curriculum link: science, environment

Text type: informational

High frequency words introduced: dark, enormous, far, middle, move, near, other, sometimes

High frequency words consolidated: eight, small

Example inferential questions:• (Turn to pages 8 and 9.) Which one of

these planets do you think would be the coldest/hottest? Why?

• Why do you think Earth is a good planet to live on?

Phonological awareness/graphophonics: suffix ‘s’; vowel digraphs ‘oo’, ‘ay’; ‘ight’ rime; consonant digraph ‘th’; rhyming words – e.g. ‘ball/small’

Program links: Space and Our Solar System E-BookLost in Space (F)

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Look up at the sky on a dark night.

What do you see?

You can see some planets and the Moon.

You can see some stars, too.

Moon

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We live on a planet called Earth.

Earth has land and water.

It has plants and animals, too.

Earth

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Earth moves around the Sun.

The Sun is an enormous ball that is very hot.

The Sun gives us heat and light.

Sun

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Earth is not the only planet.

There are eight planets

that move around our Sun.

The Sun and planets make up our solar system.

The Sun is in the middle of the solar system.

Some of the planets in our solar system

are near the Sun.

Other planets are far away from the Sun.

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Venus

Mars Sun

Jupiter

Earth

Mercury

Saturn

Neptune

Uranus

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