This book explains words that will help the reader understand more about forces, electricity, sound, light and materials. The words are listed in alphabetical order, with a clue at the top of each page to help find the right place. The trail of underlined words can be followed to find even more information. It provides the definition of words associated with the material world, such as various metals and chemicals and their uses. It is one of a seroes of books on core curriculum subjects that can help readers learn the meanings of each subject's key words in a clear and simple way. This different type of book helps to support alphabetical skills as well as developing literacy skills and provides a reference source for the core subject in each book.

 

This is volume 5 in Keywords .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 1999 by Hachette Children's Group .

Karen Bryant-Mole is an experienced author and editor. She has written many children's information books.