"Light and Dark helps emergent readers understand and differentiate between these opposites while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once"--Provided by the publisher.

Introduces light, and provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate some of its characteristics.

Explains the differences between light and dark and contains six activities to further the reader's understanding.

"Though we take light for granted, the world's greatest scientists have long puzzled over its nature, properties, and behavior. Its incredible speed, mysterious frequency, relationship to color, form of travel, and uncanny ability to reflect, refract, diffract, and be absorbed altogether make light the ever-elusive quarry of science's greatest hunters of knowledge and understanding. This is the enthralling account of their investigations and discoveries,...

Explains the different places light comes from and contains six activities to further the reader's understanding.

Photographs and text provide a scientific introduction to light, explaining what light is, where it comes from, and how it travels.

Discusses the properties of light, particularly its source in heat.

Flick the switch, and you have light. Go outside during the day, and you see sunlight. Text and photographs explain how living things use light, and how light travels and what happens when it is dark.

Explores the basic science concepts involved in seeing, using, and understanding this form of energy.