Chocolate lovers, unite around this sweet science lesson featuring a milk chocolate-loving cow.  Text features can help the reader understand information in any reading topic. In this lesson you will learn to use a flowchart and a bar graph as you read about liquid and solid states of matter.

You will also learn that the meaning of unknown words can come from their context in the sentence.  Here, we will notice the punctuation clues of parenthesis and commas to define the unknown words or ideas.