Look Inside: Your Skeleton and Muscles Williams
Level 2.7
Word Count: 669
Reading Level Correlations:
Early Intervention Level 20
Guided Reading Level L
DRA Level 28
Lexile 620L
Without your skeleton and
muscles, you would not be
able to hold this book! Lets
take a look under your skin.
You will learn about the
parts of your body that let
you move, throw a ball,
and even blink your eyes!
TCM 14635
Look Inside:
and
Your Skeleton Your Skeleton
Muscles Muscles
Your Skeleton Your Skeleton
Muscles Muscles
Ben Williams
Teacher Created Materials
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ISBN 978-1-4333-3635-5
2012 Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
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Based on writing from TIME For Kids.
TIME For Kids and the TIME For Kids logo
are registered trademarks of TIME Inc.
Used under license.
Consultant
Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
Kent State University
Publishing Credits
Dona Herweck Rice, Editor-in-Chief
Robin Erickson, Production Director
Lee Aucoin, Creative Director
Conni Medina, M.A.Ed., Editorial Director
Jamey Acosta, Editor
Stephanie Reid, Photo Editor
Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher
Synched Read-Along Version by:
Triangle Interactive LLC
PO Box 573
Prior Lake, MN 55372
ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-812-8 (e-book)
Table of Contents
The Skeleton and Muscles ........................
All About the Skeleton .............................
All About Muscles ...................................
Building Strong Bones and Muscles .....
Glossary ..................................................... 28
The Skeleton and Muscles
Imagine if you had no skeleton or
muscles (MUHS-uhls). How would you
stand? How would you move?
How would you throw a ball, touch your
toes, or even blink your eyes?
The answer is that you could not do
any of those things. You need a skeleton
and muscles to do all the things you want
to do.
Your skeleton and muscles work
together. They help you keep your shape
and allow you to move.
All About the Skeleton
If you look at yourself in the
mirror, you can get a good idea of what
your skeleton is like under your skin.
Bones are inside every part of
your body. Bones connect to make
your skeleton, and your skeleton gives
you your size and shape.
Joints
If bones are connected,
how can they move?
Bones are connected
with joints that let
them move in different
directions.
v
Each bone in your body has its own
important job to do.
Some bones protect you. Your skull
is one of those bones. It protects your
brain.
Some bones give you shape. Your
ribs make the shape of your chest. They
protect your heart, lungs, stomach, and
liver, too.
Some bones give you strength to
stand. Your femur (FEE-mer) is the
thigh bone. It helps to hold you up.
Amazing!
If bones are broken, they
can grow together again.
Skull Bones
v
femur
The skull looks like one bone,
but it is really made of bones.
The skull bones connect like the
pieces of a puzzle.