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Text Set, Solar System  In this text set, I have chosen five books that provide ample information about various aspects of the solar system and will be used as supplemental activities in a fourth grade classroom. One book details how the seasons are caused by the earth’s tilt in outer space. One book provides information about the moon and its properties. A book entitled, __Earth,__ gives facts about our planet and how it is different from the other planets in the solar system. Two of the five books in this text set are biographical of astronaut, Shannon Lucid and the other tells of the Apollo astronauts. These books will be used in the classroom for various vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities that will coincide with our unit on the solar system.