Non-fiction/ Informational Text--Muscles

Muscles-Our Muscular System

Seymour Simon
1998

Muscles, Our Muscular System  is an excellent informational text that is of high difficulty.  It describes, in detail, what our muscles do and how they work.  The book contains diagrams, as well as pictures and real photographs that show our muscles in different parts of the body.  The book continues through all the parts of the body and describes the functions of the muscles in each part of the body. 

This book is an excellent resource to use within our Body and Its systems unit.  I use it the pictures within my lessons on the muscular system to show students what the muscles look like, as well as reading some of the text to tell how they work.  The book is written on a higher reading level, so it may not be accessible to all students but it is helpful with instruction.