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Here the children could  !"#$ing across the snow. D Nancy was watching one of her favorite Saturday morning cartoons when she heard the news. A pet food company was having a writing contest. To enter, you had to write a story about why you loved your pet. If you won, you would get your weight over a large area, so that you do not sink in to the snow. People wear snowshoes for farming, hunting, or just for fun. American Indians were the first to wear snowshoes. This passage is mainly about skis. snowmobiles. deep snow. ways of movoss the snow have been invented. Sleds and snowmobiles have long runners which slide on top of the snow. Skis or snowshoes can be worn on the feet. Snowshoes look something like long tennis rackets. They are strapped to boots. Snowshoes help to spread had seen autumn leaves. flying to Vermont for a wedding. seeing some hills on fire. fall in San Diego. A If you tried to ride a bicycle in deep snow, the wheels would sink. It is not easy to walk in deep snow, either. So, some special ways of moving acrlike it. I thought it was beautiful. When we got to the house, my cousin Scott was outside raking leaves. I wanted to help because I had never raked leaves before. Scott was happy to give up the job. This story is mainly about the first time the authorom the airport, I couldn't believe my eyes. The rolling hills looked like they were on fire. It was fall, so the leaves on the trees had all changed color. They were bright red, yellow, and orange. Since I lived in San Diego, I had never seen anything ndy getting over her fear of horses. Cindy's wish coming true. Cindy's parents surprising her with a gift. Cindy going to a horse show. B My cousin was getting married, so my family and I flew back to Vermont for the wedding. As we drove to their house frd to trot and gallop. Cindy went to a horse show and saw many young girls jumping their horses over fences. She wanted to try this with Brandy. She practiced every day until she and Brandy could jump over a five-foot fence. This story is mainly about Ci She became the owner of a beautiful brown horse. Cindy named her horse Brandy. Every day after school she went out to the stable. She brushed Brandy's soft coat and walked her around the yard. Soon Cindy was able to ride Brandy. Together they learnecolorful and beautiful plumage of all. This passage is mainly about the feathers of a peacock. birds that must swim and dive for their food. down feathers. birds' feathers. D Cindy had begged her parents to buy her a horse. One summer they finally agreed.small, silky feathers. These feathers are called down. Down helps keep the bird's body warm. Birds that need to swim and dive for their food have waterproof feathers. The word for all of a bird's feathers is plumage. The peacock has probably the most st. A Birds come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. One thing they do have in common is their feathers. All birds have feathers. The feathers on a bird's wing help it to fly. These feathers are called flight feathers. The bird's breast is covered with touch and pick up many sea creatures. Jaime learned a lot about fish and other sea animals from the field trip. This story mainly tells about a field trip to the aquarium. watching the sea otters being fed. the aquarium's touch pool. life in a kelp foreto read your story on a television commercial. Nancy could hardly wait to enter. If she wrote a story about her cat, Muffin, she would definitely win the contest! She sent the story, along with a picture of herself and Muffin, to the pet food company. About a month later, Nancy got the good news. She won the contest! This story is mainly about Nancy's favorite cartoons. Nancy entering and winning a writing contest. Nancy's cat, Muffin. a pet food commercial. B Building sand castles at the beach can be ses its body for a cushion. Which sentence tells the most about this passage? Gorillas make beds from leaves. Fish sleep with their eyes open. Monkeys sleep in trees. Animals sleep in many different ways. D My sister was studying Spanish in high school. Oigh up in the treetops where they are safe from their enemies. It is hard to tell when a fish is asleep. This is because a fish sleeps with its eyes open. Fish have no eyelids. When a duck goes to sleep, it turns its head all the way around. Then it u bed. But what about wild animals? Animals sleep in many different ways. A lion can go to sleep anywhere. It sleeps in the shade when it is hot and in the warm sun when the weather is cold. Gorillas make beds from leaves. Leopards and monkeys sleep hd. Penny wished that she could ride on one of the floats. This story is mainly about Penny watching a parade. clowns who ride old bicycles. the costumes of a marching band. all kinds of parades. A When you feel tired, you can go to sleep on a nice, softese. They had a huge front wheel and a tiny back wheel. The clowns did funny tricks as they rode the bicycles. Then a big float came down the street. It was covered with beautiful flowers. Ladies in fancy dresses sat on the float and waved to the crowish back in the water. A Penny heard the marching band in the distance. As they came closer, she could see their bright red costumes. Everyone clapped as the band passed by. Next there were some clowns on bicycles. Penny had never seen bicycles like the a book called "The Pike Fisher." (The pike is a fish that swims in fresh water.) Mr. Spence caught 8,000 pike in waters all over the world. He threw every one of them back! This passage is mainly about fishing. cleaning fish. writing books. throwing fvorite fishing spot, and fish all day. Then they clean the fish they have caught and cook them for dinner. The fish tastes best when it is grilled over a campfire. An English fisherman named Edward F. Spence never ate any of the fish he caught. He wrot. This story mainly tells why the author didn't like Fran Hogan. about Fran Hogan's mother. how many cookies Fran Hogan ate for lunch. about Fran Hogan's school lunches. D Many people like to go fishing. They get up early in the morning, drive to their fa gooey chocolate chip cookies, and other times they were chewy oatmeal and raisin cookies. To top it off, Fran's mother always filled the thermos with chocolate milk. I always asked her if she wanted to trade a few cookies for a banana. She never agreedhad the best lunch in the whole school. Her mother made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on nice, soft bread. She always had a big, red, shiny apple. And then there were the cookies. Fran always had homemade cookies in her lunch. Sometimes they were. The wet sand will form towers on the castle roof. This main purpose of this passage is to explain what a moat does. tell how a sand castle is made. give reasons for going to the beach. list the many things you can do with a bucket. B Fran Hogan always e same thing with smaller buckets or cups. These will be the other parts of the castle. Use your hand to dig a moat around the castle. The sand in the moat will be very wet. Hold some wet sand in your hand and let it drip on the main part of the castlea lot of fun. It is a good idea to bring some buckets. First, make the main part of the castle. Fill the bucket with damp sand. Quickly turn the bucket upside down. Pull the bucket up carefully. The sand should stay in the shape of the bucket. Do thne day she asked my mom if a student from Spain could stay with our family for awhile. My mother agreed, and Maria arrived the next week. We were all excited about meeting her. My sister had been practicing her Spanish. When we met Maria at the airport, she seemed very shy. On the way home, my sister tried to speak to her in Spanish. Maria asked us to speak to her in English so that she could learn the language. My father spoke to Maria in a very loud voice. He thought that she could understand him ving boat. Sampans usually have cabins covered with straw mats. This is where the family sleeps. In Hong Kong, there is a sampan city where hundreds of sampans are docked together. Some of the sampans are used as shops or food stores. There are peoplefrom a friend. delivering the mail in different ways. D Would you like to live on a boat? Maybe you have spent a week on a houseboat during your vacation. Some people in China and Japan live on floating homes called sampans. A sampan is a small, fast-mo special way. Mailmen would swim the rivers in places where there were no roads. They pulled behind them a floating pouch which carried the mail - and their dry clothes. This passage is mainly about swimming in rivers. reading the mail. getting a letter our favorite magazine will come. How does the mail get to your mailbox? Probably a mailman drives up to your mailbox in a little car. Or maybe he walks around from one mailbox to another. Long ago, the mail was carried between Argentina and Chile in aand glided down the hill. This story is mainly about going on a skiing trip. staying in a motel. taking skiing lessons. a famous ski resort. A Most of us look forward to getting the mail each day. We wait to see if there is a letter from a friend. Maybet. Greg fell asleep while his father was driving. They stayed in a motel that night and got up early the next morning. After riding the ski lift to the top of the slope, Greg got off. This was the moment he had waited for. He pushed off with his poles thought about it all day at school. As soon as school was over, his father picked him up. They put their suitcases in the car and strapped the skis on top. After they filled the car with gas, they were on their way. It was a long trip to the ski resor explain what a hare is by comparing it to a rabbit. describe the eating habits of hares. explain how a rabbit runs from danger. tell why hares make better pets than rabbits. A Greg was looking forward to the trip. He and his father were going skiing. He For example, hares are larger than rabbits. Hares are born with their eyes open, while rabbits are born blind. Hares do not dig burrows or live in groups like rabbits. Hares have longer feet and ears than rabbits. The main purpose of this story is toA hare is an animal very much like a rabbit. It is gentle and timid like a rabbit. Its front teeth are long and sharp like those of a rabbit. Both hares and rabbits are very fast. They can outrun many of their enemies. But there are some differences. ain point of this passage is to tell about the North Pole. tell about the South Pole. compare the North Pole with the South Pole. tell about the Eskimos. C Almost everyone has heard the story of the hare and the tortoise. But do you know what a hare is? ive in the Arctic, close to the North Pole. They are called Eskimos. It is cold in the Arctic, even in the summer. The average summer temperature is only 50 degrees F. Snow often falls during the summer, and the ground deep down is always frozen. The muth Pole? The South Pole is colder. It is on ice-covered land. No people live at the South Pole, only a few birds, fish, and whales. The North Pole is on ice-covered water, and water does not cool off as much as land does. There are a few people who lbetter if he talked loudly. We all learned a lot from Maria. This story is mainly about having a visitor from another country. the customs of people from Spain. taking a Spanish class. learning to speak English. A Which is colder, the North Pole or the So in sampan city who never set foot on land. They spend their whole life going from one sampan to another. This passage is mainly about living on sampans. Hong Kong. rowing a boat. going on vacation. A Someone was shaking the bed. I opened one eye to see my sister standing above me. "C'mon Charlie. Didn't you hear the alarm?" she whispered. Then I remembered that it was my mom's birthday. Leanne and I had decided to surprise her with breakfast in bed. I put my robe on and followed Leanne downstairs. "ar with a big package in his hands. Jane wondered what it could be. Jane was sad and quiet because she didn't go to the circus. had to help her father carry the groceries. wished it wasn't her birthday. thought everyone had forgotten her birthday. D Child%'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCte her birthday. Last year they had all gone to the circus. The year before, Jane's older brother had made her a cake shaped like a roller skate. "But not this year," she said aloud. Then her father's car pulled up in the driveway. He got out of the cJane sat on the steps with her chin cupped in her hands. Her brown eyes usually sparkled with excitement, but today she was sad and quiet. ~ "How could everyone forget my birthday?" she thought.~ Jane's family had always done something special to celebraing name for a great state. This passage is mainly about gold mining in Alaska. the great state of Alaska. buying land from Russia. Alaskan forests. B ests. Gold, oil, and natural gas are found underground. The seas around Alaska are rich with fish and sea animals. Alaska is our largest state. It is as large as Texas, California, and Montana put together. Alaska means "the great land." It is a fitt Alaska, and the price was two cents an acre. At the time, some people complained about the foolish waste of money. They thought Alaska was nothing but a lot of useless, frozen land. Alaska turned out to be a very good buy. The land is covered with forg and no end. This passage is mainly about the world's oceans. the coldest ocean in the world. the deepest ocean in the world. the borders of North America. A Over one hundred years ago, America bought a huge chunk of land from Russia. The land was calledhe South Pole. It is full of icebergs. Many seals and whales live in this cold, salty water. All the five oceans of the world are really one big ocean. Look at the globe and you will see that the oceans join into one another. The ocean has no beginninAtlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic. The largest and deepest ocean is the Pacific. It forms the western border of North America. The eastern edge of North America is formed by the Atlantic Ocean. The coldest ocean is the Antarctic, in the area of tised! This story is mainly about Charlie cooking breakfast. Charlie getting up early. a birthday surprise. Charlie and his sister, Leanne. C Oceans cover about three-fourths of the earth. Oceans are made up of salt water. There are five oceans--Pacific, You make the toast," she commanded, "and I'll make the eggs." As I buttered the toast, Leanne announced that the eggs were ready. They looked a bit runny to me. We put the food on a tray with some orange juice and the newspaper. Boy, would Mom be surprren who live in cold climates love to make snowmen. There is a special Winter Carnival in Canada where people make ice statues. To make an ice statue, first you spray water on a big pile of snow. Soon it will freeze into ice. Then you can carve the ice into any shape you want. At the Winter Carnival, people don't just make snowmen. They carve trains, airplanes, or animals out of ice. The statues are judged to see which one is best. Then, as soon as the sun comes out, the statues melt away. ~ Then peo take baths? Some children love to splash and play with toys in the tub. Others run and hide when it is time to take a bath. Hundreds of years ago, people did not take as many baths as we do now. Often they splashed cologne on themselves to smell bettay parties weren't so bad after all. The boy in the story didn't want to go to the party because he didn't like Nora O'Mally. he was afraid they would serve chocolate cake. he didn't like to play party games. he would be the only boy there. D Do you like t to see that the cake was chocolate. Then we played Pin the Tail on the Donkey. When I won the game, I was sure Nora's mother wouldn't have any prizes that I would like. I was wrong. She handed me a kit for making a model airplane. Maybe girls' birthdwould be impolite not to go. ~ I was going to be the only boy there!~ When she answered the door, Nora had a big smile on her face. I quickly sat down on a chair far away from all the giggling girls. Nora's mother said it was time for cake. I was glad from all nations are friends. The colors in the Olympic flag come from the flags of all nations. flag of the United States. flag of Sweden. flag of Italy. A I couldn't believe it. My mother was making me go to Nora O'Mally's birthday party. She said it c Games. The Olympic flag is white, with five rings. ~ The rings are colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red. At least one of these colors is found in every flag in the world.~ The rings are linked together to show that at the Olympic Games, peopleerican flag are red, white, and blue. The colors in the Italian flag are red, green, and white. The colors in the Swedish flag are blue and yellow. There is one flag that stands for all the countries. It is the Olympic flag, which flies over the Olympie in the neighborhood. they gave away a cookie with each glass of lemonade. their stand was on the busiest corner in the neighborhood. their lemonade was the cheapest in the neighborhood. D Each nation in the world has a special flag. The colors in the Amquickly reduced their price to four cents a glass.~ The next three children who came by bought lemonade. Soon their lemonade stand was the busiest one in the neighborhood. Donna and Doug's lemonade stand became so busy because they sold the best lemonad Just then, Doug's sister Jill ran up to the stand. Doug asked her if she wanted to buy some lemonade. She said she had just finished a glass. ~ "The kids on the next block are selling it for five cents a glass instead of ten," she said. Donna and Doug ed about the prize. The prize for selling the most candy was a soccer ball. year's supply of candy. twenty dollar bill. bicycle. D Donna and Doug set up a lemonade stand one warm Sunday afternoon. After about an hour, not one person had bought lemonade. ring the doorbell, Mrs. Ford opened the door. "Well, hello Dana," she said smiling, "Are you selling candy too?" Mrs. Ford had already bought some candy from Peggy Long. So, Dana walked to the next house. She felt like giving up, but then she rememberey. She wasn't so sure she wanted to ring her neighbors' doorbells and ask them to buy candy. But she did want to win the bike. ~ Whoever sold the most candy won a bike.~ As Dana walked up to Mr. Ford's door, she wondered what to say. Before she couldople start designing their statue for the next year's Winter Carnival.~ The Winter Carnival in Canada is held every time it snows. is held once a year. has a contest for the best snowman. has ski races. B Dana's soccer team was selling candy to raise moner and to hide body odors. King Louis XIV was king of France for 72 years. ~ He hated water so much that he never took a bath.~ He probably never went swimming, either. It is very hard to believe, but it is said that he never washed more than the tip of his nose! King Louis XIV never took a bath because he hated water. he never got dirty. he didn't know how to swim. no one in France took baths. A It seems like magic. With a few quick folds, a plain piece of paper becomes a bird. The bird seems almost metimes the fireworks make a picture, like an eagle or the American flag. Fireworks are often used to warn people of danger. as part of a celebration. to frighten people. to send messages. B Do you have a favorite teddy bear? The first teddy bear was madereworks.~ There are displays all over the country. One of them is held at the Hollywood Bowl, a huge outdoor theater in California. At the end of the evening's concert, the fireworks begin. The band plays marches while the fireworks explode above. Soleepy. bored. hungry. A The night sky is filled with bursts of color. Red, blue, green, white and silver streaks shoot through the sky. It's exciting to watch fireworks. ~ In the United States, people celebrate July 4 as Independence Day with colorful fir's brother explained that the man was going to ride the bicycle across the tightrope. ~ Roger peeked through his hands as the man rode to the other side.~ The man made it across safely! When Roger watched the stunts on the tightrope he felt worried. snds. This pole helped him keep his balance. When the man reached the other side, the audience applauded loudly. Roger was glad that the man had not fallen. Then he saw another man climbing up the long ladder. But this man was carrying a bicycle. Rogeoon than on the earth. People weigh less on the moon than on the earth. The force of gravity pulls us down. High jumping is easy on the moon. A Roger watched with only one eye open as the man walked across the tightrope. The man held a long pole in his haw much you weigh. If you weigh 60 pounds here on earth, you would weigh only about ten pounds on the moon. If you want to lose weight or set a new high jump record, maybe you should go to the moon! Which sentence is not true? Gravity is stronger on the mt six times as high as your head! ~ That is because the force of gravity is so much weaker on the moon.~ Gravity is what pulls us down to the earth. If we let go of an object, gravity makes it fall down instead of floating away. Gravity also affects ho her. She jumped safely to a nearby window. She was rescued by the fire department. Mr. Heath called to her and made her come down. B If you are a very good high jumper, you can jump about as high as your head. If you were on the moon, you could jump abouhould call the fire department. Mr. Heath suggested that Betsy go upstairs and call to Fluffy from the bedroom window. It worked. ~ Fluffy was not afraid to jump to the nearby window.~ How did Fluffy finally get out of the tree? Betsy climbed up and gotFluffy, but the cat wouldn't budge. Betsy remembered a book about a fireman who rescued a cat that was stuck in a tree. Just then, Mr. Heath walked around the corner. He asked Betsy what was wrong. She told him about Fluffy, and asked him whether she s the Japanese art of paper folding. the Japanese word for colored paper. C Betsy noticed that Fluffy's dish was still full of milk. Then she heard a loud "meow." Betsy looked up to see Fluffy stuck on the tallest branch of the maple tree! She called to to make a shape. Brightly colored papers are used. The paper must be square to begin with, and it must be easy to fold. The folds must be very exact. If you had some lessons, you could learn to enjoy origami. Origami is a Japanese bird. a drinking cup.ready to fly away, and yet it is only a folded paper. Another piece of paper is turned into a beautiful flower, a fish, or a drinking cup. What is the magic at work here? ~ It is origami--the Japanese art of paper folding.~ In origami, paper is folded in 1902. It was named for President Theodore Roosevelt. ~ A newspaper cartoon had shown the President refusing to shoot a bear cub.~ A candy-store owner showed the cartoon to his wife. Using scraps of cloth, she made a toy bear that looked like the one in the cartoon. She put the bear in the store window. Many people wanted to buy one just like it. ~ The store owner asked President Roosevelt if he could sell the bears and call them "Teddy's bears."~ The president agreed and the teddy bear has been wer. ~ Subways are usually found in big cities, where many people need to get from place to place in a hurry.~ Subway trains can travel very fast. They do not get in the way of the cars, trucks or buses on the streets. The busiest subway system in the ne can grow together again. There are over 200 bones in the human body. There are many bones in the hands and feet. All the bones in the body are the same size. D Have you ever ridden on a subway? A subway is an underground train. It moves by electric poalled the skeleton. The skeleton is the framework of the body. If you crack or break a bone in your arm, the doctor must put a cast on your arm. This cast will hold the bone in place while it grows together again. Which sentence is not true? A broken boh bone, or femur. ~ Some other bones are tiny and delicate.~ The smallest bones in the body are three tiny bones inside the ear. Nearly half the bones in the body are in the hands and feet. These bones are also very small. All the bones together are co that people have a place to sleep at night. to protect against enemy attack. to protect against floods. so that rain and snow will slide off. D There are over 200 bones in your body. ~ Some are thick and strong.~ The largest bone in the body is the thigight. Sometimes people need shelter from their enemies. Tree dwellers in the jungles live high up in the trees. There are long ladders to reach the ground. When the enemy threatens, the ladders can be quickly pulled up! Houses may have a slanted roof soods. ~ The roofs are steep, so that the rain drains off well. In the northern countries, roofs are also steeply slanted, so that the snow will slide off.~ If the weather is hot and dry, the roof may be flat. Then people have a cool place to sleep at n the left side of your brain is more powerful you will be very strong. be a southpaw. have trouble cutting with scissors. be right-handed. D Houses are built to provide shelter. People who live in the rainy tropics put their houses on stilts in case of fln the world, like scissors, are built for right-handed people. Left-handed people might have trouble using these tools. There is a special store called Southpaw in San Francisco. Everything in the store is made for "southpaws," or left-handed people. Ifds. Only a few are left-handed. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. ~ If the left side of your brain is more powerful, you will be right-handed.~ Many things i.~ The one-way glass in the window never needed cleaning. let people look into the bakery. was painted light blue. let people in the bakery look out. D Look around your classroom some day. You will see that most of the children write with their right hanI made a face at her too. But she walked on without noticing me. I asked my mom why everyone who passed by looked at themselves in the glass. She said that the window was made of one-way glass. ~ We could see the people outside, but they couldn't see usy. The line was moving very slowly. When I looked over at the window, a lady was staring at herself in the glass. A little boy held her hand. I made a funny face at him, but he didn't see me. Then a young girl looked at the window and fixed her hat. a popular toy ever since. The teddy bear was named for President Roosevelt because he wrote a song about teddy bears. refused to shoot a bear cub. loved stuffed animals. saw the bear in the candy-store window. B My mother and I stood in line at the bakerworld is in New York City. Other cities which have subways are Paris, London, Montreal, Chicago, Berlin, and Moscow. The walls of the subway station in Moscow are covered with works of art. People can look at beautiful paintings while they wait for the subway. Which statement is not true? Most subways are found in small towns. Subways run with electric power. Subways are underground. Subway trains travel very fast. A ~ Have you ever seen boiling hot water steaming and bubbling out of the ground?~ You would mold the clay into anything we wanted to make. I knew right away that I wanted to make a cup. My cup would have a big, curvy handle. When I looked next to me, Peter was making a cup with a handle. I wanted to make something different, so I rolled Karen decided to break the hot dog eating record. A All the students cheered when Mr. Rawlings said that we'd be working with clay in art class. He gave each of us a lump of clay. We had to play with it for awhile so it would get soft. Then he said we c sleepy. So, they decided they'd try to break another kind of record in the morning. What happened after James and Karen each ate five hot dogs? They felt very sleepy. They decided to wait until morning to try again. Karen ran into the kitchen. James and DFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abc hot dogs, watching the most movies, and roller skating the fastest. "If we break one of the records, our pictures will be in this book." So, James and Karen decided to break the hot dog eating record. After they had each eaten five hot dogs, they feltKaren ran into the kitchen and shouted, "James, I thought of a way we could become famous!" Karen explained that she had checked out a book from the library. The book was full of records set by all sorts of people. There was a record for eating the most soil. Hawaii has a very mild climate. Hawaii has active volcanoes. Hawaii is really a chain of islands. A he island gets bigger! Hawaii is a very beautiful state. Because it is surrounded by the ocean, the climate is very mild. ~ Many kinds of flowers, fruits and vegetables grow easily in the rich volcanic soil.~ Which statement is not true? Hawaii has poorthe tops of mountains and volcanoes rising from the ocean floor. Some of the volcanoes are still active. Once in a while, hot lava spills out of the top of the volcanoes. Then it flows down to the ocean, where it cools and hardens. When this happens, ttional Park is snow. colored rock. Indians. geysers shooting hot water out of the ground. D Which state in the United States is really a chain of islands? Which state has many active volcanoes? That state is Hawaii. The Hawaiian Islands are formed from and trails are hidden with deep snow. During the summer, many people come to see the geysers, such as Old Faithful. Old Faithful shoots hot water hundreds of feet in the air about once every hour. One of the most unusual things to see at Yellowstone Naill if you see the geysers at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The park got its name from the yellow colored rock in many of its canyons. Indians were probably the first people to see Yellowstone. The park is closed in the winter, because the roadsup the clay and started again. I had a great idea! I would make a swan like the one we read about in The Ugly Duckling. What happened after Mr. Rawlings gave each student a lump of clay? The author decided to make a cup. All of the students cheered. The children played with the clay so it would get soft. The author decided to make a swan. C One day, Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their son Teddy went to Nature Park for a hike. Mr. Brown took a picture of his wife and son next to some trees. A few days later, hed toward the park. When they got to the park, Rosa's grandfather gave her a bag full of bread crumbs. The ducks seemed to recognize Rosa as she stood near the edge of the pond. Rosa tried to throw the bread crumbs as far as she could. She smiled as shethe front porch waiting for her grandfather. Every Sunday he and Rosa went to the park to feed the ducks. Then Rosa's grandfather came around the corner. He whistled a tune as he walked. Rosa ran to greet him. She held his big, warm hand as they walkeThen they come out into the warm spring sunshine. What do the animals do just before they hibernate? The animals awake from hunger. The animals eat a lot and store up fat. The animals sleep all winter. The animals come out into the sunshine. B Rosa sat on ls, snakes, woodchucks, and toads hibernate in the winter. They eat a lot before winter comes. Then they crawl into deep holes and sleep the winter away. They live on the fat they have stored up. When spring comes, they awake because they are hungry. o get up on a cold winter morning. You would rather stay snug and warm in bed. You would like to sleep just a little longer. That is exactly what some animals do. They sleep all winter. This winter sleep is called hibernation. Animals such as squirreWhat was done just before Tony cut the wood for the frame? The boys nailed the treehouse into place. The boys made a ladder with wooden planks. The boys measured the space between the branches. The author nailed the frame together. C Sometimes it is hard td for the frame. I nailed the frame together. We finished the treehouse by filling in the frame with more wood. Tony climbed the tree. Then I threw him the rope that was tied to the treehouse. He pulled it up to the branches and nailed it in place. eehouse in the backyard. The thick branches of the apple tree were perfect for holding the treehouse. First we made a ladder by nailing five short wooden planks to the trunk. Then we measured the space between the two largest branches. Tony cut the wooright! What happened just before Jimmy went to sleep? Jimmy found a quarter under his pillow. Bruce saw Jimmy holding a tooth. Jimmy and Bruce talked about the tooth fairy. Jimmy put the tooth under his pillow. D My brother Tony and I decided to build a trve it your way. If it were me, I would at least give it a try." That night Jimmy thought about what Bruce had said. He put his tooth under his pillow and went to sleep. In the morning, Jimmy found a shiny, new quarter under his pillow. Bruce had been th it. Jimmy's friend Bruce saw the tooth and said, "Wow, are you lucky! You are going to get some good money for that." Jimmy knew that Bruce was talking about the tooth fairy. He told Bruce that he was too old for that kind of stuff. Bruce said, "Haick up the pictures. Mr. and Mrs. Brown took the picture to the newspaper. Mr. and Mrs. Brown went back to park to take more pictures. Mrs. Brown told Teddy about the mountain lion. B Jimmy held his tooth in his hand. He was trying to decide what to do widid not hurt them. The next day the picture was in the newspaper. The Browns hoped it would alert people to be careful when hiking in Nature Park. What happened after Mrs. Brown saw the mountain lion in the picture? Mr. Brown went to the drug store to p picked up the pictures from the drugstore. Mrs. Brown looked at the picture they had taken at Nature Park. She let out a scream. A mountain lion had been behind some trees when the picture was taken! Mrs. Brown and Teddy were very lucky that the lion watched the ducks dive for the food. What happened first? Rosa's grandfather came around the corner. Rosa threw bread crumbs to the ducks. Rosa waited for her grandfather. Rosa's grandfather gave her a bag of bread crumbs. C When Willie opened his eyes, he saw the shiny, red bicycle. He jumped for joy. Then Willie's mother asked him if he wanted some help learning how to ride it. Willie said he wanted to teach himself how to ride the bike. So, he took the bike outside and walked it to the park. The fi run record. He quit playing two years later. By then, he had hit a total of 755 home runs. Henry Aaron had become one of the great baseball players of all time. What happened just before Babe Ruth set the home run record? Henry Aaron quit playing baseb all of sports. Henry Aaron grew up wanting to play pro baseball. His father made him promise that he would finish high school first. He did very well in his first year as a pro. He was named "Rookie of the Year." In 1974, Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homethat she had forgotten her key. Carmen locked her suitcase. Carmen saw a huge box on the table. B Henry Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1934. One year later, in 1935, the great Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run. This was called the greatest record ingotten her suitcase key. Carmen was worried that her grandma would have to cut open her new suitcase. But her grandma was able to open the lock with a hairpin. What happened after Carmen got to her grandma's house? Carmen opened the box. Carmen realized ase! Best of all, her suitcase had a lock and key. A few weeks later, Carmen packed for a trip to her grandma's house. She zipped up her suitcase and locked it with the little gold key. When she got to her grandma's house, she realized that she had for newspaper. Brandy ran away. Jorge slammed the screen door. Brandy was found. B When Carmen saw the huge box on the table, she wondered what it could be. She hadn't asked for anything that big for her birthday. She opened it and found her very own suitc, Brandy was still missing. The next day, Jorge and his mother put an ad in the newspaper's lost and found section. Brandy was returned within a week by a family that lived in a neighboring town. What happened first? Jorge and his mother put an ad in thehat's the matter?" she asked. Jorge explained that Brandy, the family dog, had run away. The dog had pulled away from him to chase a squirrel. Jorge's mother's suggestion was that they both walk around the neighborhood to look for the dog. At nightfalled because there wasn't enough food. The first Thanksgiving feast was held. The Indians helped the Pilgrims get food. B Jorge ran into the house, letting the screen door slam behind him. When his mother turned to scold him, she saw that he was crying. "Wy decided to have a feast. They invited their friends, the Indians. Pilgrim men hunted wild turkeys for the dinner. We have been eating turkey for Thanksgiving dinner ever since. What happened first? The Pilgrim men hunted wild turkeys. Many Pilgrims diy had a very hard winter the first year. Many people died because there wasn't enough food. Then the Indians showed the Pilgrims where to catch fish and how to grow good crops. The next year there was plenty of food. The Pilgrims were so happy that thethe bike. Willie walked the bike to the park. C Does your family eat turkey for Thanksgiving dinner? This custom started when the Pilgrims ate wild turkeys for the first Thanksgiving feast. The Pilgrims came to America from England in the year 1620. Then his knees. But he could ride his bike for a whole block without falling. What happened after Willie fell off the bike the first time? Willie's mother offered to help him learn to ride the bike. Willie could ride the bike for a block. Willie got back on rst time he tried to get on it, he fell. But Willie got right back on the bike. After awhile, he was able to balance on it without falling. But as soon as he started to pedal, he fell off the bike. By the end of the day, Willie had a lot of scratches oall. Henry Aaron graduated from high school. Henry Aaron was named "Rookie of the Year." Henry Aaron was born. D Jerry sat down in the middle of the trail. He was tired. He thought he had walked far enough. Up ahead, he saw his father carrying his younger sister Christy. His father turned around and called to him. "Come on, Jerry. Just a little bit farther." But Jerry knew he still had a long way to walk. His father called to him again, but Jerry wouldn't budge. Then he heard a noise in the bushes at happened just before Pam got her sled from the garage? Pam took her sled to the park. Pam put on her snowsuit. Pam dragged her sled up the hill. Pam looked out the window. B A compass is a tool for showing directions. It is fun to see how a compass worchildren were already whizzing down the snowy hill. She dragged the sled to the top of the hill and waited for her turn. Sitting on the sled, she gave herself a push with her feet. The cold wind felt good against her cheeks as she sped down the hill. Whowing, it's snowing!" She was excited because she could finally use her sled. She got dressed quickly, putting on her snowsuit, boots, and mittens. Then Pam went to the garage to get her sled. Pulling the sled behind her, Pam walked to the park. Many red sports car? Andy tried to talk his father into buying the car. Andy put the model car together. Andy's father bought him a model car. Andy's father said that the car was too small. A When she looked out the window, Pam let out a joyful shout, "It's snthat the car was much too small. "Where would everyone sit?" he asked Andy. The next day, Andy's father bought him a model of the red car. Andy was sorry that it wasn't the real car, but he put it together anyway. What happened right after Andy saw the Dad! Look at that neat car." Andy's father turned to see a bright red sports car. "Yeah, son. That sure is a beauty." Andy spent the rest of the day trying to get his father to buy that kind of car for their family. His father laughed and explained happens last? The bananas ripen. The bananas are cut from the stalk. A bud forms on the banana stalk. The heavy fruit bends the stalk down. A Andy and his father were on their way to the grocery store. Andy looked out the window. Suddenly he said, "Lookbends downward. Soon the bananas are hanging with their points up. Bananas are always cut when they are green. If they stayed on the plant until they were ripe, they would burst open. Bananas must be carefully shipped so they don't ripen too fast. Whatounds. One bunch of bananas grows on each plant. The banana plant looks something like a tall palm tree. It has big droopy green leaves on top. One large bud grows from the stalk. This bud turns into the fruit. As the fruit grows heavier, the stalk s. The author decorated his box with glitter. The teacher asked the children to bring a shoe box to class. The children cut a slit in the top of each box. A You might be surprised if you saw how bananas grow. They grow in huge bunches weighing about 100 ps. So, we cut hearts and flowers from white and pink paper. We glued the hearts and flowers to our boxes. Then I added glitter to my mailbox. What happened just after the mailboxes were covered with red paper? The children glued paper hearts to the boxee going to make our own mailboxes for Valentine's Day. First we cut a slit in the top. It had to be big enough for an envelope. Then we covered the box with red paper. A red mailbox was nice, but it would probably look better with some other decorationsat down in the middle of the trail. Jerry's father called to him. Jerry ran to meet his father. B Our art teacher asked us to bring an old shoe box to class. She didn't tell us what we were going to do with it. When we got to class, she said that we werbehind him. He wondered if it was a bear. When the noise seemed to get closer, Jerry stood up. He decided that his legs weren't really that tired. Jerry ran up the trail to meet his father. What happened first? Jerry heard a noise in the bushes. Jerry ks by making one of your own. You need a needle, a magnet, a piece of cork, and a glass of water. First, rub the magnet along the needle, starting at the eye. Then push the needle into the piece of cork. Next, put the cork in a glass of water so that the needle rests on the top of the water. Make sure that you are not near a magnet or anything made of iron. Stand still and watch the eye of the needle. It will always point to the north. A compass can help you find your way if you get lost. What shoulrt of Russia, people live in huge tents. The tents are about 35 feet across, and they weigh about 1400 pounds. When it is time to move, a dozen women get inside of the tent. They pick up the tent by the poles which hold it up. ~ Then they walk, carryingA Have you ever slept in a tent? Maybe you have gone camping with your family and helped to set up the tent. Or maybe you have pitched a tent in your back yard and invited your friends over to sleep all night. Some people live in their tents. In one pa, he realized that he had been dreaming. Next time he would listen to his mother. The last sentence suggests that Tim will not eat too much pizza in one meal. never go to sleep right after eating. not watch any more monster movies. never eat pizza again. dfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~s room to rest. Then Tim saw a giant pizza coming towards him. Tim ran as fast as he could, but the pizza was right behind him. The pizza was eating all of the buildings and trees in the city. Just then, Tim heard a loud noise. When he opened his eyes~ Tim's mother warned him not to eat too much pizza. "It will give you bad dreams,"~ she said. Later on, Tim didn't feel very well. He didn't want to tell his mother because he knew that she would scold him for eating too much pizza. So Tim went in hil have a pretty new frame. What is the first step? Put toothpicks into a sweet potato. Put water in a small jar. Train the vine to grow up the string. Watch the first green shoots appear. B icks will hold most of the potato out of the water. In about two weeks, little green shoots will sprout out of the potato eyes. Soon the shoots will become a vine. The vine can be trained to grow up a string or wire. Before you know it, your window wil You can do it if you have a little time and a sweet potato. Fill half a small jar with lukewarm water. Stick four toothpicks around the middle of the sweet potato. Put the potato into the glass so that just the bottom of the potato is wet. The toothp What happened first? Debbie picked up the 50 cent piece. Cathy decided to buy candy with the money. Cathy decided to put the money in her bank. Cathy saw something shining on the sidewalk. D Would you like to grow a leafy frame around your kitchen window?e money to play video games. Then she changed her mind again. She would put the money in her bank and save up for a record. Just then, her sister Debbie walked around the corner. Debbie spotted the 50 cent piece, picked it up, and put it in her pocket. When she walked towards it, she realized it was a 50 cent piece. Cathy felt very fortunate to have found the money. She thought of all the things she could do with 50 cents. First she thought she might buy some candy. Then she decided she would use thd you do first when making a compass? Push the needle into the cork. Watch the eye of the needle. Rub the magnet along the needle. Put the cork in a glass of water. C Cathy was walking home from school one day when she saw something shiny on the sidewalk. the tent to their new home.~ One of the good things about living in a tent is that it is warm in winter. it is so pretty inside. a tent can be moved from place to place. a tent is small. C Jack, Adam, and Alice were very happy that their Aunt Mary was coming for a visit. Her plane was late, so the children were in bed when she arrived. When they woke up in the morning, they couldn't wait to see Aunt Mary. But, she was still asleep. After awhile, the children became very impatient. They decided to tak is shy. selfish. smart. kind. D Every Thanksgiving, I looked forward to breaking the wishbone with my Uncle Frank. ~ He would brag all day about how he was going to get the bigger piece.~ He would ask me over and over, "Are you sure you want to try agaone took turns jumping for awhile. Amy wanted to take her turn. She walked over to the stump. Amy's brother asked, "What are you doing here?" ~ But her cousin Sherry asked him to let Amy try jumping from the stump.~ We can tell that Amy's cousin Sherryed to spy on them. She heard them laughing in the distance. Josh was standing on a tree stump on the hill. He held on to a long rope. When he jumped from the stump, he swung out over the water. Then he let go and made a big splash in the water. Everyhey don't have wheelbarrows. to keep their feet dry. because they haven't learned to ride bicycles. when the carpool doesn't pick them up. B Amy's feelings were hurt. Her older brother and cousins had gone to Back Bay without including her. So, she decid school on stilts.~ Stilts are high sticks that lift you above the ground when you walk on them. It takes a lot of practice to learn to balance yourself while walking on stilts. Do you wish you could try? The children walk to school on stilts because ts. If you lived in China, you might ride to school in a wheelbarrow. A wheelbarrow is a small two-wheeled cart that is pushed along by one person. ~ There are other children who have to cross a shallow river to get to their school each day. They walk tod to show off. wanted to watch the other children play. couldn't climb down by herself. didn't want to eat lunch. C There are many different ways to get to school. Many children walk. Some ride the school bus. Some ride bicycles or are driven in carpoolp,~ I found out that getting down was really the difficult part.~ I stayed there all morning, pretending I was really proud. My sister had to help me climb down at lunchtime. Beth probably stayed at the top of the swing set all morning because she wanteld be at the park before everyone else. "Everyone can do it, Beth," my sister said. Well, she was right. Everyone but me could climb to the top of the swing set. I thought swinging my leg over the top bar was the hardest part. When I made it to the tos was the first class to go on a field trip. no one had checked out a book about cowboys. her students had behaved so well at the library. D I remember the day I finally made it. It was the summer after second grade. I got up early every morning so I couanted to check out, the librarian explained the rules of the library. When the children returned to the classroom, Mrs. Daniels told them how proud she was. Mrs. Daniels was probably proud because Vince had already finished his book about snakes. her clasact in a library. When they arrived, the children split up to look for books of their choice. Emily looked for a book about space travel. Vince looked for a book about snakes. ~ The children were very quiet.~ After the children found books that they wAunt Mary saw the children, she probably felt surprised. sad. lonely. lively. A Mrs. Daniels' third grade class was going on a field trip to the public library. She wanted her students to learn how to look for books. She also wanted them to learn how to e chairs into her room and wait for her to awaken. They lined up the chairs at the foot of the bed. Then they sat and waited very quietly. After a few minutes, Aunt Mary opened one eye. ~ She was shocked to see the three children staring at her.~ When in this year? You know I am a naturally lucky guy. I'm Irish you know." He was right about being lucky. Uncle Frank had gotten the bigger piece ever since I could remember. After dinner, everyone gathered around the table to watch us. I closed my eyes and pulled. When I opened my eyes, I saw that I had gotten the bigger piece. Uncle Frank's natural luck had run out! From this story we can tell that Uncle Frank was sure he would win. a sore loser. a big eater. unfriendly. A Have you ever tried to eap and water and called for Winston. When Winston saw the tub, he would run away. When Sam finally got Winston in the tub, the dog would shake and splash water all over Sam. ~ Sam thought that giving Winston a bath was almost as bad as taking a bath himsm tried to avoid, it was giving the dog a bath. Sam's family had a large English Sheepdog named Winston. Winston was a good dog, as long as he wasn't getting a bath. Sam usually gave Winston a bath in a big washtub in the backyard. He filled it with sot him in because he always brought the food. T. J. would always bring some of his mother's fudge brownies. From this story, we can tell that T. J. is the president of the club. very forgetful. afraid to climb trees. very popular. B If there was one job Sae password. To get into the treehouse, you had to knock three times and say "swordfish." ~ T. J. always forgot the password.~ He would knock three times and say, "Gee guys, I forgot the password." We would all groan and let him in anyway. We had to leet it signed by the baseball players. B We used to have our secret club meetings every Saturday morning. We met in an old treehouse that some neighborhood kids didn't use anymore. I guess we didn't really talk about secret stuff, but we did have a privatht it!~ After the game, an usher took her to get the home run ball signed. Kelly probably took her mitt to the games to show it to her friends. in case she ever needed to catch a fly ball. so her brother wouldn't use it while she was gone. so she could gat the ballpark, batting practice was over. But, Kelly looked forward to watching the game. In the last inning, a high fly ball was hit towards the bleachers. In fact, it was heading right for Kelly. ~ She held up her mitt and closed her eyes. She caugto her from the car. "Hurry up, Kelly. If we're late we aren't going to be able to watch batting practice." Kelly was busy searching for her mitt. ~ She always took it with her to baseball games.~ She finally found it under the bed. When they arrived draw rockets, Lance was happy to help.~ The last sentence suggests that Sergio does not like to draw. Lance knows that Sergio thinks he is boring. Sergio and Lance might become friends. Sergio could draw rockets better than Lance. C Kelly's father called yone moved, Sergio had to sit by Lance Kirk. Sergio was sure that sitting next to Lance would be dull. During art class, Sergio noticed that Lance could draw very well. He watched Lance draw pictures of rockets. ~ When he asked Lance to show him how to her decision. She asked the students to sit in different groups for the rest of the year. Mrs. Lee explained that she wanted the children to get to know everyone in the class. This wouldn't happen if the students sat only with their friends. After everour knife and fork! Chopsticks are like forks because they are both made of wood. they are both used to pick up food for eating. only Chinese people use them. they are used to cut food into small pieces. B The school year was half over when Mrs. Lee made to pick up your food.~ Be careful not to cross the chopsticks. If you do, the food will drop. The food is cut into small pieces before it is served. With a little practice, you'll soon be able to enjoy eating with chopsticks. You may not even miss yat your dinner with chopsticks? Chopsticks are two narrow sticks a little longer than a pencil. They can be made of wood, plastic, bamboo, or ivory. Many Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people use chopsticks. ~ You must move one chopstick toward the otherelf.~ From this story, we can tell Sam doesn't like to take baths. Sam doesn't like dogs. Winston is a good watch dog. Winston is afraid to swim. A An elephant's trunk is an amazing tool. It can be used to do several different things. For example, an elephant uses its trunk like a spoon to pick up food. If an elephant needs to dig for something, it can use its trunk like a garden spade. An elephant's trunk can also be used like a hose. When an elephant is hot or dirty, it can spray itself with water.stories before. C When you check out a book from the library, you must return it soon. Usually you can keep it for two weeks. You bring it back to the library so that someone else may read it. ~ If you keep the book too long, you have to pay a fine of a ther was like when he was a young boy. Becky was sure he had been a fun-loving child. From this story, we can tell that Becky doesn't know very much about fishing. is afraid to ride on a ferris wheel. is a good listener. has never heard her grandfather's all four of us to drag it out of the water," he would say. ~ He told the same stories over and over again. But Becky didn't mind. ~ She liked how his eyes lit up when he talked about his first ride on a ferris wheel. She liked to imagine what her grandfae White House. A Becky loved to listen to her grandfather tell stories. He would talk about how he invited her grandmother to go on their first date. He also told her about the time he and some friends caught the biggest fish in Miller's Pond. "It took e and the First Family. The author suggests that many children are curious about the life of the First Family. President Johnson did not like the children's letters. the President receives many thank you notes from children. there are no pets allowed in the at the White House?", "How many gates are there at the White House?", and "What do you and your family eat?"~ When Lyndon Johnson was President, he wrote a little book to send to children who had questions. His book included facts about the White Housnted. B Have you ever written a letter to the President of the United States? Each week,~ the President receives between three and four thousand letters from elementary school children. Some common questions asked in these letters are: "How many pets livally reached the ground floor, the elevator door opened. A little boy ran up to her and shouted, "Grandma!" I guess she wasn't so bad after all. When the elevator finally reached the ground floor, the author probably was afraid. relieved. angry. disappoin her pointed nose. I thought she looked like the Wicked Witch of the West. She cleared her throat and looked down at me again. It was as if she could tell what I was thinking. ~ I wished that I was not all alone in the elevator with her.~ When we finsister. Brandon would not do well on his next spelling test. good spellers always get the best jobs. A Her perfume smelled strong and flowery. It smelled like the kind my Aunt Louise used to wear. When she looked at me, her glasses slipped down further otant in many jobs.~ You'll have a head start. Keep studying your spelling words." When Brandon's mother said, "You'll have a head start", she meant that being a good speller would help Brandon when he was grown up. Brandon was a better speller than his I'll be when I grow up." Brandon's sister Carol was sitting at the kitchen table. She said, "That's stupid. You can't be a speller when you grow up." Brandon looked very sad, so his mother explained,~ "Being a good speller is not a job, but it is impor. strong. useless. C Brandon was really excited. He had gotten all of his spelling words right on the test. He ran home to tell his mother the good news. "Mom, look! I got the best grade in the class! I am such a good speller that I think that's what If an elephant is hungry, its trunk finds food by smelling for it. An elephant can pick up things with its trunk. ~ It can pick up something as small as a pin, or it can uproot a tree.~ The last sentence suggests that an elephant's trunk is gray. oldfew cents a day. ~ One time a boy found a very old book on the bookshelf in his father's den. He looked at the library card in the front of the book. The book had been checked out of the library 145 years before! The boy took the book back to the library. He found that the fine for a book overdue for 145 years was $2,646. Library fines are needed to get people to read more books. keep the books clean. pay for the library cards. get people to bring books back on time. D Tommy looked down at his feet as hob as a caddy. the best golfers of the 1950's. how Ben Hogan became a great golfer. the game of golf. C The puppy was almost hit by a car as it scampered across the street. When I picked it up, I could tell that it was scared. I took the puppy home and g tournaments. For many years, he played in tournaments without winning much money. But in 1953, his luck changed. It was then that Ben Hogan became the first man to win three major golf tournaments in one year. This passage is mainly about Ben Hogan's j, so he got a job as a golf caddy. Ben wanted to learn as much as he could about golf, so he asked the players a lot of questions. He practiced playing golf whenever he got the chance. When he had saved enough money, Ben went on the road to play in golf the story of Thanksgiving. the clothing worn by the Indians. watching a friend perform in a school play. the food eaten at the first Thanksgiving. C When Ben Hogan was twelve years old, his father died. Ben wanted to help his family by earning some moneyd to present some corn to the Pilgrims. When she walked across the stage, she tripped and fell over somebody's foot. The audience gasped. But, my friend showed she was a true actress by getting up and continuing with the play. This story is mainly aboutving. She had been practicing for many weeks. The curtain went up, and I saw her standing with her arms crossed. She was wearing a colorful costume. I held my breath when it was her turn to say her lines. She did a wonderful job. Then she was supposeThis passage is mainly about the voyage of the Redstone rocket. the most popular animals at the National Zoo. Ham's new home. a chimp that was famous for awhile. D The show was about to begin. My friend was playing an Indian chief in the story of Thanksgiapers and magazines all over the world. Everyone wanted to see the chimp that had flown in a rocket. Today, Ham lives in Washington, D.C. at the National Zoo. But he no longer enjoys such fame. Now Ham is only the fifth most popular animal in the zoo. On January 31, 1961, a 150-pound chimp named Ham was a passenger aboard a Redstone rocket. The rocket flew 155 miles into the sky. Then it splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean. Ham was very famous for his voyage. He appeared on the front page of newspgan eating his string beans. Tommy probably wanted to be a vegetable in the school play because the vegetables had the best costumes. vegetables were his favorite food. all of his friends were playing vegetables. the vegetables had lines to say. D ods. ~ "Yeah, but they don't get to say anything in the school play. I wanted to be a vegetable."~ His mother smiled and said, "Well maybe you'll be one next year. You could practice by eating all of the vegetables on your plate." Tommy sighed, and bee walked home. He was disappointed because he had to be a banana in the school play. The play was about the four basic food groups. "A banana! Who wants to be a banana anyway?" he asked his mother. Tommy's mother told him that bananas are important foave it some food and water. The puppy thanked me by licking my face. I decided to ask my father if I could keep the puppy. I would name it Scottie. My father came into the room and asked, "Well, what have we here?" I asked him if I could keep Scottie. He said that I'd have to put an ad in the lost and found section of the newpaper. If no one came to claim Scottie, I could keep him. This story is mainly about finding a lost puppy. putting an ad in the newspaper. the best way to take care of a puppy.ly pinch you. But, if you pick up a crab by its leg, it might drop its leg. That's right, a crab can drop its leg if it is in danger! The crab can then grow a new leg to replace the one it left behind. What is the main idea of this passage? A crab has tand people learn to stay away from skunks. If an octopus is in danger, it squirts black ink into the water. The octopus can then hide behind the ink to avoid its enemy. A crab can protect itself in two ways. If you try to pick up a crab, it will probabYork. two children who liked riding in elevators. how Teresa and Charlotte fooled their grandfather. the way an elevator works. B Animals protect themselves from danger in many different ways. Skunks spray their enemies with a bad odor. So, most animals to, but he never said anything. Sometimes he would let them ride in the elevators alone. They would offer to go down to the lobby to get the mail. But he knew they just wanted to play in the elevators. This story is mainly about the skyscrapers in New n an elevator to get to his apartment. They would push all the buttons when nobody was looking. Then the elevator would stop at every floor. Teresa and Charlotte would giggle until they thought they'd burst. Their grandfather realized what they were upuse got its name. the invasion of the British in 1812. why the White House was rebuilt. the many buildings designed by James Hoban. A Teresa and Charlotte loved to visit their grandfather in New York. He lived in a big skyscraper. The girls had to ride itish troops that invaded Washington. When the house was rebuilt, the smoke stains from the fire had to be concealed. So, the stone walls were painted white. Since then, it has been called the White House. This passage mainly tells about how the White Hote House. In fact, the White House has not always been white. When the building was built in 1792, it was called the President's House. The house was designed by James Hoban and made out of gray stone. During the War of 1812, the house was burned by Briout using a tape recorder to play jungle sounds. a classroom decorated as a jungle. the winners of the room decorating contest. students who were scared by a plastic snake. B The home of the President of the United States has not always been called the Whiffects. We recorded some jungle sounds from a movie on television and played the tape in the classroom. All the students and teachers visited our room. Some of them screamed when they saw the plastic snake hanging from a vine. This story mainly tells aba jungle. We hung leaves and vines from the ceiling. Bobby Pearson brought his stuffed monkey and tied its arm to one of the vines. We drew pictures of lions, tigers, elephants, and giraffes on the chalkboard. Laurie and I were in charge of the sound eireflies. If a toad eats a lot of fireflies, you might see his stomach glowing. This passage is mostly about toads. flashlights. fireflies. state insects. C Last week our school had a room decorating contest. We decided to fix up our room to look like is the state insect of Tennessee and Pennsylvania. Although it is called a firefly, it is really a type of beetle. A special mixture of chemicals causes a firefly's body to light up. This light gets the attention of other fireflies. Toads love to eat f what puppies like to eat. A Have you ever seen a bug light up like a flashlight? What you probably saw was a firefly. The fireflies in the eastern part of the United States light up at night. Most of the western fireflies do not light up. The firefly wo ways of protecting itself. Different animals protect themselves in different ways. Skunks protect themselves by spraying their enemies. An octopus squirts black ink into the water. B My brother Neil ran into the kitchen with a frightened look on his face. His teacher had asked each student in the class to collect some bugs in a jar. "What am I going to do, Liz? I'm afraid of bugs!" he shouted. I told him I would help with the collection. We found an old jar, poked some holes in the lid, and went ouuse was ready to be painted. Walter had enjoyed watching the birth of the house. This story mostly tells how a house is painted. why new houses are built. how one house was built. who will move into the new house. C A dolphin is a very active animal. It hammers all day long. After awhile, the builders put in the doors and windows. For many days, Walter heard a lot of pounding and drilling. Walter's brother told him that the workers were putting in the wires and pipes. By the end of the summer, the hoarge appetite. D A house was being built next door to Walter's house. Every day he watched the house grow and change. First the builders made a wooden frame for the house. Then they filled in the frame with more wood. Walter heard the pounding of theirck legs allow it to leap more than three feet. What is the main idea of this passage? A bullfrog once ate a seventeen-inch snake. The bullfrog can leap over three feet. The bullfrog usually eats insects and worms. The bullfrog is a small creature with a lt was seventeen inches long. The snake was more than twice as long as the bullfrog! A bullfrog captures its food by waiting quietly and then leaping up at the prey. As it leaps, its tongue flies out and wraps around its prey. The bullfrog's powerful baut eight inches long, the bullfrog has an amazing appetite. It usually feeds on small things such as insects, worms, snails, and crayfish. Sometimes a bullfrog will eat larger things such as mice, small birds, and snakes. A bullfrog once ate a snake thathat something so beautiful was once just a grain of sand. This passage mainly tells about how a pearl is made. why a grain of sand irritates an oyster's body. things made of mother-of-pearl. the material inside of an oyster's shell. A Although it only abo mother-of-pearl. The oyster continues to cover the sand with many layers of mother-of-pearl. After some time passes, a little ball forms. This ball is called a pearl. Pearls are very valuable because they are difficult to find. It is hard to believe starts out as a grain of sand? When a grain of sand gets inside an oyster shell, it irritates the oyster's soft body. So, the oyster covers the grain of sand with a layer of the shiny material that lines the inside of its shell. This material is calledlay all kinds of melodies. What is the main idea of this passage? Some people are serious about whistling. People whistle for different reasons. The best whistlers compete in contests. Some people use their hands to whistle. B Did you know that a pearlsider whistling to be a great talent. There are contests held to see who is the best whistler. For the past eight years, the best whistlers have competed in the International Whistle-off. The whistlers use their tongues, throats, hands, and fingers to p just for the fun of it. But some people are very serious about whistling. For example, some natives of the Canary Islands talk to each other by whistling instead of using words. They are dependent on whistling as a way to communicate. Other people conatio. Neil said he'd pick it up himself. Which sentence tells the most about this story? Neil was afraid of bugs. Neil watched the grasshopper in the jar. Liz and her brother collected bugs. Neil picked up the beetle. C Almost everyone has tried whistlingtside. I pointed at a grasshopper that hopped across the lawn. Neil refused to touch it. I picked it up for him and put it in the jar. As he watched it hop inside the jar, he became more and more interested. I pointed at a beetle crawling across the pusually lives for about 30 years. Dolphins sleep for only a few moments at a time. Because of the shape of their mouths, dolphins look like they are smiling constantly. They are gentle and playful mammals. They are also very bright. Dolphins can imitate the patterns of human speech. They speak out of the blowhole at the top of their heads. This blowhole is for breathing, but clicks and whistles can be heard from it too. Dolphins are very fast mammals. They can glide through the water at 30 miles an u ever carved a pumpkin for Halloween? It is fun, but it's not easy. Well, try to imagine carving a pumpkin under water. Every year, The Dive Shop sponsors an underwater pumpkin carving contest. Young scuba divers put on heavy gear and take their pumpkentence tells the most about the passage? There have been many ways to buy things in our history. Cocoa beans were once used as money in South America. American Indians used pieces of shells as money. Long ago, people traded grain for animal fur. A Have yooped. People in different parts of the world used different types of money. American Indians used pieces of shells to buy things. In South America, cocoa beans were used as money. Today, most money is in the form of paper bills and metal coins. Which ss, people traded them. For example, someone might have traded some grain for animal fur. But trading was not always easy. People were not always willing to trade things and some items were very troublesome to carry. So the first kind of money was devel scary mask will frighten the winter away. Some people believed that ghosts roamed around on Halloween. It is fun to dress up in scary costumes. A Many years ago, people did not use dollar bills and coins to buy things. Instead of buying and selling thinges, dance in the streets, and make as much noise as possible. They hope that the costumes and all the noise will scare the winter away and make room for spring. What is the main idea of this passage? People dress up in costumes for many reasons. Wearing ames dress as goblins, monsters, and ghosts. This is because people long ago believed that ghosts roamed around on the night of October 31st. In Austria, people dress in costumes hoping to change the weather. Just before Lent begins, they dress in costumenguins. Penguins of today are different from penguins that lived long ago. Penguins were once six feet tall. C There are many reasons why people dress in costumes. Actors and actresses use costumes to help them play a role. On Halloween, children sometil and stiff. But these old wings are not useless. Today, penguins use these wings as paddles. Over the years, penguins have become very good swimmers. What is the main idea of this passage? Penguins use their wings as paddles. Cold weather is good for p Because penguins lived in very cold places like the North and South Poles, they did not have very many enemies. Penguins could safely spend their time on land. As the years went on, penguins did not use their wings for flying. So the wings became smaled to exercise. what football players eat for breakfast. what football players do in the spring. A Many years ago, penguins were six feet tall and could fly as well as any other birds. But today, most penguins are less than three feet tall and cannot fly.place, do sit-ups and push-ups, and many other exercises. Then they work with weights to build their strength. Many coaches hold meetings after the morning workout. This passage is mainly about training camps for football players. why football players nel, they spend the hot summer months at training camps. During training, the players live at nearby dormitories or hotels. They begin their workout every day after breakfast. A team captain or assistant coach leads them in exercises. The players run in hour. This passage mainly tells how dolphins can speak. why dolphins can swim so fast. some facts about dolphins. how long dolphins live. C Professional football is played in the fall and winter, but what do the players do during the rest of the year? Welins under water. Then, using diver's knives, they create jack-o-lanterns. The divers wear gloves, so it is hard for them to move their hands. It takes a great deal of patience and cooperation to do the job. But, the divers always come up with great jack-o-lanterns. The contest helps the divers learn to work together under water. Which sentence tells most about the passage? Divers need to learn to work together under water. Carving pumpkins for Halloween is fun. Scuba divers must wear heavy gear under Then Roger saw his brother Mark lying on the floor. The loud noise was only Mark falling out of bed--again. Roger woke up when he heard a loud noise. because he had a bad dream. when a hairy monster came into his room. because he fell out of bed. A For d it would only have one eye. Roger heard the moaning noise again. This time he got up the courage to look over at his brother's bed. His brother was gone! Roger was sure that the monster had eaten his brother. But the monster was nowhere to be seen. isa win in 1960? none one two six C ~ Roger was awakened by a loud thump.~ Then he heard a moaning noise. He was sure a monster had gotten into his bedroom. Roger began to imagine what the monster would look like. He thought it would be very hairy, ana bronze medal. ~ At the following Olympic competition in 1960, Larisa won three gold medals, two silver ones, and a bronze medal.~ Larisa was a star again in the 1964 Olympics. This time she won two of each kind of medal. How many silver medals did Lares dream of the chance to compete for a gold medal. The athlete who has won the most Olympic medals is a woman. A Russian gymnast named Larisa Latynina has won a total of 18 medals at the Olympics. In 1956, she won four gold medals, a silver medal, and it, she saw a beautiful violin. She wondered whose it was. What did Jill not find in the boxes? bottles and jars a beautiful violin dust a photograph of her mother D One of the highest honors for an athlete is winning a medal at the Olympics. Many athlet and jars. They were all various colors. Then Jill opened the next box. There were many old photographs in it. ~ Jill did not know anyone in the photographs, so she went on to look in the next box.~ It was a small box with a handle. When Jill opened f old boxes. Jill was very curious about what was in the boxes. She looked behind her to see if anyone was coming. Then she opened the large box in the corner. There was a lot of dust in the box, and it made her sneeze. The box was full of old bottlesas also quite a habit for Junior. The manager let Junior in free after Junior had seen "Rocky" 50 times. because Junior was his nephew. when Junior had been to 50 movies at the theater. because Junior helped the manager take tickets. A The attic was full o theater manager decided to let him in free.~ The theater wasn't losing money though. In one day, Junior bought one hot dog, three soft drinks, three chocolate sundaes, and a box of popcorn at the food stand. It seems that eating snacks at the movies wGoing to the movies is a favorite activity for many of today's young people. For Junior Mamoe, an eleven-year-old boy, going to the movies was quite a habit. Junior actually went to see the movie "Rocky" 77 times. ~ After Junior had seen it 50 times, thewater. Carving pumpkins under water is a challenge. D people who don't have families, being in the hospital can be a very lonely time. That is why a hospital in Rockford, Illinois is letting pets visit their owners. The animals are brought to a special "pet room" where their owners can see and play with them. ~ Some doctors feel that a visit by a pet cheers up the patient and helps him to get well faster.~ So far, all of the animal visitors have been dogs. One eighty-five-year-old patient felt much better after a visit from her Doberman. Another patient e is very little water in the desert. Camels are able to survive for many days without drinking water. There is one instance of a group of camels surviving for 34 days without water. When they do find water, camels can drink 27 gallons of water in ten m of metal. They are only big enough for baby animals. They are not used in zoos. B A camel's body helps it to survive in the desert. Long eyelashes protect a camel's eyes from blowing sand. Camels can also close their nostrils to keep the sand out. Therleopards. Can you picture a leopard stretched out on water bed? You can actually order a water bed from the San Diego Zoo for your own pet. Which statement about the animal water beds is true? They are filled with very cold water. The mattresses are mademetal so the animals will not poke holes in them.~ Water beds are good places for female animals to have their babies. The warmth of the beds helps keep the babies healthy. Some adult animals that enjoy sleeping on water beds are lizards, monkeys, and . All of these things were really in the painting except trees. a man selling ice cream. a path. a park. B Recently, some animals at the San Diego Zoo have been resting comfortably--on water beds. ~ The mattresses on these water beds are made of very thin t went much further. There was probably a carnival close by, with a merry-go-round and a ferris wheel. ~ If you walked even further down the path, I'm sure you would see a man selling ice cream.~ And I'm sure that he would be selling chocolate ice creamthe elections. Anyway, they weren't paying attention to me. I looked up at a painting that hung above the rocking chair. It was a nice painting of a park with trees and a winding path. The path faded away toward the back of the park, but I could tell i outlawed because it was too dangerous. many people bet on the game. the game was supposed to be played with ten pins. people spent too much time playing the game. B I was sitting on the sofa listening to the grown-ups talk. I think they were discussing me. ~ Because so many people enjoyed betting on nine-pin bowling, the game was outlawed in some places.~ In order to get around the law, people started bowling with ten pins. Today, more than 40 million people enjoy ten-pin bowling. Nine-pin bowling was In ancient times, the pins were actually pointed stones and the ball was a round rock. The game most similar to modern bowling started in Germany. It was played with as many as 17 pins. By the 1800's, bowling with nine pins had become a very popular gaRandy returned to Florida, he tried to make an angel in the sand, but it just wasn't the same. Randy's family lived next door to his cousins. in Wisconsin. in a cold climate. in a warm climate. D The game of bowling has been around for thousands of years. was disappointed when it didn't snow. He felt positive that it would snow this year. On the last day of his vacation, Randy's wish came true. It had snowed three feet during the night. Randy's cousins showed him how to make an angel in the snow. When y in the patient's room. A Randy's family went to Wisconsin for a vacation every winter. ~ Since Randy lived in Florida, he was always excited about the chance to play in the snow.~ Although Randy always had a good time with his cousins in Wisconsin, he was cheered up by her English Sheepdog puppy, Sandy. According to this story, some doctors believe that a visit from a pet could help the patient feel better. only dogs can cheer up patients. all hospitals must have pet rooms. pets should be allowed to stainutes. ~ A camel stores fat in its hump. This fat is a supply of energy.~ A camel's coat helps protect it from the heat of the day and the cold of the desert nights. Which of these statements about a camel is false? Its hump stores water. Its eyelashes protect its eyes from sand. Its coat keeps it warm on cold nights. It can close its nostrils. A Most people think that Henry Ford invented the automobile. However, other men had already built cars by the end of the 1800's. But Henry Ford was the one mgh as you jump. Which one is not a reason for building a fire? cooking jumping over the embers harvesting crops keeping warm C Have you ever seen a plane writing in the sky? For several years, planes have been able to spell out messages by flying in the ristmas Eve in Syria, some families stand around a fire and tell stories. Then, when the fire dies down, they make a wish as they jump over the embers. In France and Norway, some people believe that if you jump over the embers, your crops will grow as hies we build a fire to keep warm. Other times we cook our meals over an open fire. ~ Some people build a fire just to enjoy watching the flames. ~ In some countries, people build fires so that they can jump over the embers when the fire dies down.~ On Chiron. So, a ride on this early bicycle was very rough. By 1868, bicycle tires were made of rubber. This made riding a bicycle much more fun. The dandy horse did not have wheels. a frame. a seat. pedals. D People build fires for many reasons. ~ Sometim dandy horse had no pedals.~ The rider had to push himself by kicking the ground with one foot and then the other. In 1865, pedals and cranks were attached to the front wheel of the dandy horse. The frame was made of wood, and the wheels were made of ought that the wheat field looked like a dark cloud. an ice cream cone. a calm lake. a wavy ocean. D One of the first bicycles was invented in 1817. It wasn't really called a bicycle, but it had two wheels and a seat. It was called the dandy horse. ~ Thess that the basement was the safest place during a tornado. So, Maura found her little brother and took him down to the basement. Maura's mother came home after the storm had stopped. She was thankful that Maura had known the right thing to do. Maura thg and causing the wheat to sway like the waves in an ocean.~ She was glad to be safe and warm inside. Then she saw a dark cloud coming towards the farm. It was shaped like an ice cream cone. That cloud might be a tornado! Her teacher had told the clavertising is very cheap. Most people get tired of watching commercials. Advertising on TV is a good way to sell products. Television advertising helps pay for our favorite TV shows. A ~ Maura thought the field looked like a stormy sea. The wind was blowinme its commercial is shown on TV. ~ These companies pay a great deal of money to advertise their products.~ This money makes it possible for us to watch our favorite programs. Which of these statements about television advertising is false? Television adt places for a company to advertise its product. Almost every home in the United States contains a television set. Half of these homes have at least two television sets. So, a company can be confident that millions of people hear about a product each tirs for less money. He opened factories in many of America's big cities. He invented a car that went up to 30 miles an hour. He gave away cars for free. A Do you ever get tired of all the commercials on TV? Most people do. But television is one of the bes cost of the Model A went down to $360. Many people could afford that price. The Model A was a very popular car. Henry Ford became the world's most successful car maker. How did Henry Ford make it possible for many Americans to own cars? He made more caan who made it possible for many Americans to own cars. ~ He figured out how to make a lot of cars for less money.~ His first Model A cost $850 and went up to 30 miles an hour. By 1913, Ford was using an assembly line in a factory to make the cars. Theshape of letters and numbers. The smoke that comes out of the plane writes the message in the sky. Today, skywriting has become more like skytyping. A computer controls the release of smoke from the plane to form letters made up of dots. ~ The plane does not have to fly in circles.~ So skytyping is much faster. One letter can be "typed" in two seconds. And only one plane is needed to skytype a message. Which of these statements about skytyping is false? Skytyping is a lot faster than skywriting. A plPatty decided to run for class president. First she made some posters which said "Patty for President." She showed the posters to her older sister June. Her sister liked the posters, but she advised Patty to write a speech. "The speech should explain tthat sounds like a person calling a dog. B ing a dog. ~ Another song, called the subsong, is heard during February and March. This is the mating season of the cardinal.~ The subsong is never sung by the female cardinal. heard during the cardinals' mating season. sung in the summer months. a song arts singing in the winter months when the ground is still covered with snow. The female joins him in March, and the beautiful cardinal song can be heard as late as November or December. One cardinal song has been described as sounding like a person callis models. The models look very real. C When you think of a cardinal, you probably think of a bright red bird. The cardinal is best known by its bright red feathers. But cardinals are also gifted songbirds. They sing nearly all year around. The male stnosaurs look so real that a few of them are kept in museums. Jim's models help people imagine how dinosaurs looked. Which statement is false? The models are made from old parts of cars. Some of the models are in museums. Jim also uses old bones to make hunk to find the right parts. After he cleans the parts, he puts them together to look like a dinosaur. Jim has studied dinosaurs, so his models look very real. Some of the largest dinosaurs are made up of 500 parts from ten different cars. The model dim 900 different kinds of mallow plants. C What would you do with a bunch of old car parts? Most people would throw them away. But Jim Gary uses them to make dinosaur models. ~ The car parts take the place of dinosaur bones.~ Jim digs through piles of jds of mallow plants. Perfume, cotton, glue, and flowers are just a few other things that are made from mallow plants. Today's marshmallows come from the marshmallow plant. are used to make glue. are made with sugar, eggs, corn syrup, and gelatin. come fro ~ Today, marshmallows are made from sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, and egg whites.~ But at one time, this fluffy candy was made from a plant called the marshmallow. The marshmallow plant is a member of the mallow plant family. There are 900 different kin did not like to chase hares. greyhounds were much better runners than cheetahs. cheetahs were poor sports. D Roasting marshmallows over an open fire has always been a favorite activity for campers. Marshmallows are also used to make other kinds of candy.eyhounds chased hares around the track. ~ The cheetahs are not very good sports. They decided to quit after they failed to catch the hare in the first race.~ Fans at the London racetrack discovered that cheetahs were much faster than greyhounds. cheetahs The big cat has very long legs for its body. These long legs help it to be the fastest mammal on land. A cheetah was once clocked running 71 miles per hour. In the 1920's, cheetahs ran against greyhounds at a London racetrack. The cheetahs and the grane that is skytyping must fly in circles. A letter can be typed in two seconds. Only one plane is needed to skytype a message. B The cheetah is a member of the big cat family. Adult cheetahs usually stand about three feet high and weigh about 100 pounds.o your classmates why you would be the best president," June said. Patty asked June to help her with the speech. The next day, the students running for president were allowed to give speeches during recess. Patty stood on the picnic table and read her se told them about her brothers' plans to scare them. The girls agreed to pretend to go to sleep early. When the boys tried to sneak into the living room, the girls jumped up and surprised them. What happened right after Faye's friends arrived for the par the snake in her sleeping bag." Faye was furious. Her brothers were making plans to scare her friends at the slumber party tonight. Well, now that she knew about their plans, she'd be ready for them. When her friends arrived for the slumber party, Faythe price of the caboose had not changed. Bobby agreed to help the storekeeper. The storekeeper opened the door. A Faye heard her brothers whispering in the hall. She decided to see what they were up to. She heard Kevin say, "Then you'll sneak in and putf you help me clean out my back room, I'll let you have the caboose for ten dollars." Bobby quickly agreed to the offer. What happened right after Bobby said he needed more money? The storekeeper asked Bobby to help him with some cleaning. Bobby saw that As he turned away, the storekeeper opened the door. "I've seen you eyeing that old caboose for a long time now. Are you interested in buying it?" he asked. Bobby explained that he didn't have enough money. Then the storekeeper offered him a deal. "Iback of the sheet of stickers. They are put on the envelopes. A Bobby pressed his face against the store window. The price tag on the caboose still said $15.00. Bobby was hoping that it would go on sale, because he had only been able to save ten dollars.ut on the back of the sheet of stickers. Finally, a machine cuts around the stickers so they can be peeled off easily. What happens before the stickers are printed? They are designed by an artist. A machine cuts around the stickers. Glue is spread on the akes about seven and a half million stickers each day. It takes from four to eighteen months to make a new sticker. First, an artist designs a sheet of stickers. Then, these stickers are printed on a huge printing press. After that, a special glue is pbor was a girl. The author hoped his neighbor would want to play baseball in her yard. B Collecting stickers has become a popular hobby for young people. The idea for these stickers probably came from seals once used to fasten envelopes. Hallmark Cards mall bat and glove! "She's a baseball fan," I said. "Maybe she'll want to play in their yard." What happened first? The author saw a baseball bat and glove in his new neighbor's box. The boys watched the movers carry boxes. Joey noticed that the new neigh the movers carry boxes through the front door. Then a girl about our age walked up the stairs carrying a huge box. "Yeah, just what I thought. A dumb old girl is moving in there," Joey said. But when I looked closer, I saw what was in her box--a baseb I remember the day our new neighbors moved in next door. The house had been empty for a long time, and we had been using the yard for a baseball diamond. We weren't too happy about not being able to use it anymore. Sitting on my front porch, we watchedpeech. The students cheered when Patty promised to ask for more field trips. What happened after Patty made her speech? Patty made some posters. The students cheered for Patty. Patty decided to run for class president. June told Patty to write a speech. Bty? Faye told her friends about the boys' plans. Faye heard her brothers whispering in the hall. The girls agreed to pretend to go to sleep. The girls jumped up and surprised the boys. A In the distance, I heard the music of the ice cream truck. I dropped the hose and ran into the house to get some change. I looked in all my pockets and came up with 50 cents. I had enough to get a chocolate rocket. When the dog saw that I had some ice cream, he jumped up to greet me. The dog was so excited that heeve made paper snowflakes? Steve forgot how hot he was. Steve looked out the window. Steve thought about cold things. Steve remembered some advice his uncle had given him. A After dinner, Carol's family went into the living room. Her Uncle Ron brought outmight work to help him feel cooler, so he thought about ice cream and snowflakes. Then he had a great idea. He decided to make paper snowflakes like those he had made in school. Steve soon forgot about how hot it was in the house. What happened after Ste children playing in the sprinkler. He looked down at the enormous cast on his leg and let out a sigh. His uncle had said that if you thought about warm things like sunshine and hot chocolate and mittens, you would feel warmer. Steve hoped this method kated in the Olympics, she won a national championship. skated in movies and ice shows. decided to quit skating. took second place in the world championship. B Steve frowned as he stared out the window. It was a very warm July day, and he couldn't join thnja went to the Olympics three times, and won each time. Then she decided to use her skating talent to earn money. She skated in movies and ice shows all over the world. Sonja Henie was the first female athlete to earn a million dollars. After Sonja sars old, she got a pair of ice skates for Christmas. She loved to skate and she practiced for many hours each day. When she was 14, Sonja won a national championship in figure skating. Soon after that, she won second place in the world championship. So Mary mixed together the butter, sugar, and eggs? The children realized they had forgotten the baking soda. Mary preheated the oven. David added the flour mixture to the batter. David added the vanilla and water to the batter. D When Sonja Henie was six yeeased the cookie sheets. When the first batch of cookies came out of the oven, they were very flat. The children realized that neither of them had put in the baking soda. So they added baking soda to the batter and tried again. What happened right afterlar. Mary mixed together the butter, sugar, and eggs. Then David added the vanilla and water. Next, Mary sifted the flour and added salt to it. David added the flour and salt mixture to the batter. Then David asked Mary to preheat the oven while he grng catcher in the ninth inning. What position did Bert play after he was the pitcher? catcher second base outfield first base A Mary and David wanted to make cookies for the school bake sale. They decided that chocolate chip cookies would be the most popuase. He then changed to a third baseman in the third inning. During the next three innings, he played in the three outfield positions. He was the first baseman in the seventh inning, and the pitcher in the eighth. Bert finished an amazing game by playin often play more than one position. In 1965, the owner of the Kansas City team decided to attract more fans by having Bert Campaneris play every position in a single game. Bert started the game playing shortstop. In the second inning he played second bforgiving pat. What happened right after the author heard the ice cream truck? The author forgave the dog. The author bought a chocolate rocket. The ice cream flew into a puddle. The author went into the house to look for money. D A good baseball player ca knocked me down. My chocolate rocket flew out of my hands and into a mud puddle. I was furious. When I yelled at the dog, he looked sincerely sorry. I remembered how I felt when I spilled cherry soda on my aunt's white tablecloth, so I gave the dog a an old family photo album. All the grown-ups laughed as they looked through it. Carol wanted to see what was so funny. She saw pictures of her father and uncles when they were very young. They looked very different and wore funny clothes. Carol asked her grandmother why she had permitted her children to wear such awful clothes. Her grandmother explained that the style of clothes had been different in those days. Then she took Carol to the attic to show her some of the old clothes they had seen in thoked up at the clock. Only two minutes had passed. In my science class this morning, I had received a note from the principal. He wanted to see me after school. I was really nervous all day. What had I done this time? I could hear him talking on the hen the icicles get very heavy, the icicles fall from the roof or tree branch. What happens first? Snow on a rooftop begins to melt. The icicles get very heavy. Snow falls on a rooftop. Drops of water falling from the rooftop freeze in the air. C I lo Some of these drops fall to the ground, but a few of them freeze in the air. Over several hours, drops continue to fall and freeze. The water trickles down the pieces of ice, and the icicles get thicker and stronger. When the weather gets warmer, or wng the piano. B If you live in a cold climate, or have ever visited one, you have probably seen icicles hanging from rooftops or tree branches. Icicles are formed when the snow on a rooftop or branch begins to thaw. Drops of water fall as the snow melts.mething in his ear and went back to her seat. Then Gary began playing. What happened just before Gary played his song at the recital? Gary stared at the piano. Gary's teacher whispered something in his ear. Gary walked to the piano. Gary practiced playi the piano, opened his book, and put his hands on the keys. Then he just stared at the piano. We all looked at each other, wondering what was wrong. He had practiced the song over and over. He could play it perfectly. Gary's piano teacher whispered soo sticks. B My brother Gary had been practicing the same song on the piano for weeks. We were all a bit tired of hearing it. The big day finally arrived. He was going to play the song in his first piano recital. When it was Gary's turn, he walked up to a sandwich. The stick is then cut into pencils and painted. Last but not least, an eraser is attached to the end. After the pencil is painted, the lead is made. the eraser is attached. the wood is glued around the lead. the wood is cut inter and poured into a mold. The wood from which pencils are made comes from cedar trees in California. The wood is cut into thin sticks. Then each stick is cut in half and a groove is made for the lead. After that, the wood is glued around the lead likerealized his paper sign could not be seen at night. Ray climbed the tree to see his new sign. B Have you ever wondered how a pencil is made? The lead inside the pencil is made by grinding clay and graphite into a powder. The powder is then mixed with wat lights to spell out the same message. That night, Ray climbed the tree to see his sign. What happened after Ray saw the movie about space creatures? Ray made a sign with some Christmas tree lights. Ray made a paper sign to attract space creatures. Ray a sign that said "Flying Saucers Land Here!" and put it on his roof. The next day, Ray realized that the space creatures could not see his sign at night. Then Ray thought of a great idea! He would make a sign out of Christmas tree lights. Ray used thephoto album. B Ray had just seen a movie about a boy who had made friends with a creature from outer space. He wished that a flying saucer would land in his backyard. So, Ray decided to make a paper sign inviting the space creatures to visit. He madee pictures. What happened after Carol went up to the attic? The grown-ups laughed at the pictures in the album. Carol's grandmother showed her some of the old clothes. Carol looked at old pictures of her father and uncles. Uncle Ron brought out the family phone through the office door. I hoped he wasn't talking about me. Then the door opened, and he asked me to come in. At least he was smiling. He told me to sit down in the chair across from his desk. With a proud look on his face he said, "Congratulations, Lisa. Your story won first prize in the contest!" What happened after the principal asked Lisa to sit down? Lisa received a note in her science class. He told Lisa that her story had won first prize. He asked Lisa to come into his office. The princiAnnie's class had just finished reading a book about a boy who found a treasure map in a floating bottle. "Maybe I could find a treasure map in a bottle," she thought to herself. The next morning she went to the beach, hoping to find a floating bottle. ppens right after the cloth is cut for the teddy bears? The bears are stuffed with soft material. The pieces are sewn together. The bears are shipped to the stores. The bears are dressed in special costumes. B small hole is left so the bear can be stuffed with soft material. Next, the hole is sewn up and the eyes are attached. The bears are then dressed in special costumes. When they are finished, the bears are shipped to stores all over the country. What ha old blue sweatshirt. Many of her friends liked the handmade bear. So Barbara made more bears. Today she owns a company that makes thousands of these bears. First the cloth is cut with a tool like a cookie cutter. Then the pieces are sewn together. A the doorway! What happened after Jeff tapped on the door? The boys drew straws. He walked up the stairs. The boys pointed at the door. The door opened. D About ten years ago, Barbara Isenberg wanted to make a teddy bear for her son. She made it out of an. Everyone knew that the Hadley house was haunted. Jeff gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and lightly tapped on the door. Behind him, his friends insisted that he knock louder. As Jeff turned around to protest, the door swung open. But nobody was in slowly walked up the creaky steps. He turned back to his friends with a frightened look in his eyes. But they would not give in. They pointed at the large wooden door. Because Jeff had drawn the shortest straw, he had to knock on the Hadley house dooriraffe was then taken to the zoo where many people enjoyed visiting the strange new animal. What happened first? The giraffe walked 500 miles. The giraffe arrived in southern France. The giraffe was fed rose petals. The giraffe was taken to the zoo. B Jeff giraffe, guarded by soldiers on horseback, walked 500 miles to Paris. It finally arrived in June of 1827 and was greeted by the royal family. It was fed rose petals and admired by the people of Paris. They had never seen anything like it before. The guldn't sleep. Chris cut himself a piece of pie. B The first giraffe arrived in France in 1826. It was a gift from an African official to the King of France. The giraffe traveled by boat and landed in southern France. A long journey was still ahead. Thethe stove. Chris giggled when his father walked into the kitchen holding a tennis racket for protection. What happened after Chris hid behind the stove? Chris went down to the kitchen. Chris's father came into the kitchen holding a tennis racket. Chris cowent down the stairs, he noticed they were a bit squeaky. He cut a generous piece of pie for himself and sat down to eat it at the table. Then he heard a squeaking noise. Someone was on the stairs. Chris was afraid it was an intruder, so he hid behind pal answered the telephone. B Chris couldn't sleep. He had been tossing and turning for the last hour. He decided that he needed another piece of chocolate cream pie. So Chris put on his robe and slippers and quietly crept down the dark hallway. As he After several hours of watching the waves, Annie decided to go home. Just before she turned to leave, she spotted a tiny green speck in the water. She ran out into the waves to see what it was. It was a bottle with a note inside! ~ The note said, "Ha! Hlassroom from Mr. Knight, the third grade teacher. He agreed to give it to us only if he could be there for the surprise. I think Mr. Knight had his eye on Miss Lawrence. ~ Anyway, we all got there early and decorated the classroom with balloons and streuple had the same last name as Thomas! When the couple realized they were in the wrong car, they probably were pleased. delighted. angry. surprised. D It was Miss Lawrence's birthday. She didn't realize that we knew about it. We had gotten a key to the c~ The couple inside explained that they had realized they were driving the wrong car. The two cars were identical and had been parked side by side.~ The strange thing was that both keys unlocked two different cars. Even stranger was the fact that the coborhood. C Thomas Baker finished shopping and unlocked what he thought was his car. He tried to get in, but the seat was too far forward. He saw some cups in the front seat that were not his. Just then, a car looking just like his pulled up beside him. dn't have time to run away, so he hid behind the bushes. Mrs. Garrety came running outside, holding a frying pan. We can tell that Mrs. Garrety is a very good cook. not a baseball fan. not very forgiving about broken windows. the oldest woman in the neighund the bases, the ball sailed high into the air. It was a home run for sure. Then the children heard the crash. The baseball had broken a window. ~ Even worse, the window belonged to Mrs. Garrety.~ The children ran in every direction. Jay knew he dition. does not like Charlie and Lisa. C Jay held the baseball bat firmly and stared at the pitcher. The bases were loaded, and Jay's team needed to score. The pitcher threw the ball, and Jay swung his bat. It was a hit! As Jay and his teammates ran aro only talked when they wanted to. They usually talked about how the fish were biting and the huge fish they had caught last year. We can tell that Michael likes to sleep late on fishing trips. had never been fishing before. enjoys having his father's atten~ It was very special because only the two of them went.~ He didn't have to hear about Charlie's good grades or Lisa's softball trophies. He didn't have to take out the garbage. Instead, he and his father got up with the birds and fished all day. Theyym, the students probably felt excited. thankful. surprised. frightened. C Michael stared at the calendar on his desk. For the third time that day he counted the days until the fishing trip. He and his father always went fishing on Memorial Day weekend. e balls for 22 miles. It was December, so the students had to face strong winds and freezing rain. ~ When they finally arrived at the gym, it was vacant and dark. ~ The game had been postponed because the roads were so dangerous. When they saw the empty geir school needed more spirit. To get everyone's attention, and to get people excited about an important basketball game,~ they decided to dribble two basketballs from their high school to the gym where the game was to be played.~ This meant dribbling tha! You fell for it!" Annie turned around and saw her older brother running away.~ The note was probably written by Annie. a classmate. a person on a deserted island. Annie's brother. D Some students at Livermore Falls High School in Maine thought that thamers.~ John Hoskins, who was a great artist, drew a picture of a birthday cake and some flowers on the chalkboard. ~ We all pitched in on a big "Happy Birthday" banner that stretched across the room.~ We can assume that Miss Lawrence is the fourth grade teacher. has her eye on Mr. Knight. is popular with her students. has been teaching for a long time. C Laura's eyes lit up when she read the announcement. The magazine she read at school was having a cover contest. The theme was transportation of the fopied a poem from a book and showed it to her. His mother was very proud of him. Without telling Denny, she entered the poem in a contest. When Denny found out, he told his mother the truth. Denny's mother made him write a letter to the magazine sayinge. Which timepiece would not be useful on a cloudy day? a wristwatch an hourglass a sundial a water clock C ~ Denny was tired of hearing his mother talk about Tina's terrific poems. He decided to show his mother that he could be a good writer too.~ He c.~ An hourglass was another way to measure time. Water clocks were also used. One type of water clock was a coconut shell with holes in it. The shell was placed in a pail of water so that it would fill up with water and sink in a certain amount of timyears ago did not have clocks. They used the sun to help them tell time. The sundial was invented to help people tell time. It looked like a metal triangle standing on a circle. ~ The shadow made by the piece of metal helped people know what time it washore, but the wind was too strong. ~ Then we saw a Coast Guard boat coming towards us. It had come to tow us back to safety!~ When the girls saw the Coast Guard boat, they probably felt lonely. ashamed. relieved. unhappy. C People who lived thousands of t Kate promised to teach us how to handle the boat. After about an hour, it became cold and windy. The waves were crashing into the boat. As we looked around, we noticed many larger boats tipping over into the water. We tried to sail the boat back to sket counter, he probably was calm. afraid. tired. excited. D It was an unusually warm day in June, so we decided to go sailing. We took Kate's Sunfish, a small boat meant for two passengers, down to the lake. Tanya and I had never been sailing before, buwindow of an airplane. He could imagine the mountains below him surrounded by thick, white clouds. For two years John had saved money from his paper route so that he could visit his cousins in Arizona. Now he was going in style. As John stood at the ticlly going to fly in a plane!~ He had waited a long time for his first plane ride. His family always drove on their vacations because they enjoyed watching the scenery. But John believed that no scenery could top the sights he was about to see from the raining very hard, the rainbow might look like it touches the earth far away.~ "A beautiful bridge across the sky" is another name for a raindrop. sunbeam. pot of gold. rainbow. D ~ John stood in line with his parents at the ticket counter. He was finaunlight looks white, it is really made up of many colors. When the sun shines on raindrops, its light is divided into these colors.~ The colors are reflected by the raindrops, and a beautiful bridge appears across the sky. If the sun is shining and it is afraid to fly. She has a good imagination. C Many years ago, people thought rainbows were magic. Some people thought you could find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Now we know that rainbows are caused by sunlight shining on raindrops. Although s could listen to his favorite music. She thought she would also include a movie screen. Laura couldn't wait to get started on the picture. Which statement is probably not true about Laura? She enjoys watching movies. She likes listening to music. She isuture. Laura knew she was a good artist. Her teachers said she should enter the contest. ~ She thought she might draw a flying car.~ The car would be perfect to take on vacations. Each passenger would have his own set of earphones. This way, everyone that he was sorry for copying the poem. The next week, Denny received a letter from the head of the contest. The woman thanked Denny for telling the truth. She suggested that he enter one of his own poems in the contest. When Denny heard his mother talk about Tina's poems, he probably was happy. sorry. jealous. pleased. C Every summer we go camping with the Blacks. It is a lot of fun because the kids in their family are our best friends. We always choose to go to a campground with a lake. A lake is i race on purpose. join Robby's kickball team. do well in the sack race. jump in the duck pond. C Chuck and Wendy like to go ice fishing. They have to wait until the ice is thick enough to hold them. Then they go down to the lake with cushions, fishing pod. Then Diane saw Robby walking towards her. ~ "Hey Diane, I bet you're going to lose the sack race again this year," Robby teased. Diane laughed, but she intended to prove Robby wrong at the picnic.~ At the picnic, Diane probably plans to lose the sack fun last year's picnic had been. The kickball game had been great because her team had won. The sack race was fun, even if she did fall halfway through the race. Diane smiled as she remembered the look on Mr. Johnson's face as he fell into the duck ponhe pet store frog was just a toy. could not jump as well as a frog from the river. would be the best frog in the contest. just needed a little more practice. B It was a beautiful day for the class picnic. As Diane walked to school, she remembered how muchstick in the air, hoping the frog would jump over it. I put some food in the grass, hoping the frog would jump towards it. But nothing happened. Then I had an idea. ~ I would go down to the river and get a real frog.~ The author probably thought that tn't know anything about frogs, but I did need a fishing pole. So I went down to the pet store and bought a frog. It was the best looking one in the store. Every day, I spent at least three hours in the backyard trying to get the frog to jump. I held a the wind was not blowing. A windwagon is most like a race car. an airplane. a train. a sailboat. D I found out about the frog-jumping competition from my cousin Freddie. He told me that this year's first prize winner would get a new fishing pole. I didneers also used wagons that were not pulled by animals. These were called windwagons. ~ A windwagon was a wagon with a huge sail on top.~ On windy days, the windwagon could travel up to 50 miles an hour. However, these windwagons did not go anywhere ifLong ago, American pioneers traveled across the country to find new homes. They usually walked, rode horses, or traveled in wagons. These wagons were covered by high, curved canvas tops. They were pulled by teams of horses or other animals. But the pio she could sit with me. ~ I found out that she had just moved also. We had a lot in common and quickly became friends.~ When she met a new friend at school the author probably was disappointed. felt more at home. was very quiet. felt like an outsider. B ol. My parents tried to convince me that everything would work out in time, but I didn't believe them. The first day of school I felt very lonely. Everyone seemed to know everyone else. No one seemed to need a new friend. At lunchtime, a girl asked ifood at swimming long distances. enjoys camping during the winter. B I was very quiet as we pulled into the driveway of our new home. My father had been transferred to New York, so we had to move. I was sure that I would never find a friend at my new schowon the race on the last day of our vacation. I have been practicing swimming this summer, so~ I hope that the lake we are heading for has a raft.~ We can tell that the author does not like to go fishing. is now on the way to another campground. is not gmportant because the fathers like to fish, and we like to swim. The place where we camped last year had a big raft out in the middle of the lake. We would have races to see who could swim out there the fastest. It was a long way to the raft. I finally les, bait, and an auger. An auger is the tool that they use to cut the ice. ~ Chuck and Wendy always select a spot where they have caught a lot of fish during the summer.~ Kneeling on the cushion, they cut a hole in the ice. Then they put the fishing line into the cold water. They wiggle the pole now and then so the fish will notice the bait. Then comes the hard part. Chuck and Wendy have to sit very quietly and wait for a fish to bite. They probably choose a good summer fishing spot for ice fishing blled their son Dennis a menace. D etchum is now over thirty years old. How did Hank's wife help him think of a cartoon idea? She said he should write about their son Dennis. She told him that good authors write about their own lives. She said he should write about their dog Pesty. She cas wife was fed up with their son's behavior, so she called him a "menace."~ Then Hank got an idea for a cartoon character--a little boy named Dennis the Menace. The cartoon character Dennis the Menace is still a pesty little boy, but the actual Dennis Ks very beautiful. A The best authors write about things that happen in their own lives. The author of the "Dennis the Menace" cartoon, Hank Ketchum, got his ideas from what really happened in his life. ~ One day, Hank's son Dennis was being a pest. Hank'picture of him. Why do you think Carl looked closely at the picture before saying anything? He wanted to make sure he knew what Vicky was drawing. He wanted to hurt Vicky's feelings. He thought Vicky would let him use her crayons. He thought the picture waome cookies. When he came back, Vicky was drawing a new picture. This time, Carl looked closely at the picture before saying anything. "That's a mean looking monster you are drawing, Vicky," he said. Vicky laughed as she told Carl that it was really a o draw a picture. "Well, Vicky, that's a very nice cow you are drawing," he said. Vicky turned to him with a frown on her face. ~ She told Carl that she was drawing a rabbit, not a cow.~ Carl shrugged his shoulders and went to the cabinet to look for secause they think lots of fish are still there in the winter. they know the ice will be thickest there. their friends go ice fishing there. they won't be bothered by other animals. A Carl saw his little sister sitting at the table. She was using crayons t