Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA, Lexile, and Reading Recovery are provided in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide. Life Science Growing Vegetables by Kim Borland Genre Narrative nonfiction Comprehension Skills and Strategy Author s Purpose Generalize Predict Scott Foresman Reading Street 3.2.4 ì<(sk$m)=bddegi< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U ISBN 0-328-13346-9 illustrated by Chad Thompson
Growing Vegetables by Kim Borland illustrated by Chad Thompson Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois Parsippany, New Jersey New York, New York Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts Duluth, Georgia Glenview, Illinois Coppell, Texas Ontario, California Mesa, Arizona
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd) Illustrations by Chad Thompson ISBN: 0-328-13346-9 Copyright Pearson Education, Inc. We re the Garden Bunch. We are friends who love digging in the dirt! We re growing vegetables again this summer. We like to eat the vegetables that we grow. This year we re going to sell them! Now we are business partners too! All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 3
We planted three new crops this year. We chose carrots, beans, and lettuce. We planted our vegetables in this sunny spot. The plants need about six hours of sunlight every day to grow well. Each of us has a special job to do in the garden. Now that we ve decided which crops to plant this year, we re ready to work. So off we go! 4 5
I m Miranda. I take care of the sweet, crunchy carrots in our garden. It s not easy to spot the carrots. The part of the carrot that we eat grows under the ground. Clever rabbits like to nibble on the green carrot tops. A wire fence will help keep the rabbits out. I water the plants every day. Most outdoor plants need about one inch of water every week. One day, I forgot to water the plants. The next day, they were wilted. I felt as if I had cheated the plants out of a drink of water. I never forgot to water them again! 6 7
I pull the weeds from around the bottoms of the bean plants. Weeds crowd out plants that are trying to grow. With the weeds gone, the sunlight, water, and food can get to the plants. I m Alex. I take care of the bean plants. They are climbing plants. I put poles in the ground to give the plants something to climb as they grow. I give the plants food. The food makes them strong. 8 9
I m Lindsay. My job is to take care of these lettuce plants. We planted the lettuce two months ago. Now they are ready for harvesting. Harvesting is a big job. There s no time to be lazy! Vegetables taste best when they are fresh. How do you know when they are fresh? That s easy. Vegetables are fresh when they ripen! To harvest the plants, we cut the lettuce from the tops of the stems. Now we have finished our jobs. Can you guess what we are going to do next? 10 11
Reader Response 1. What was the author s purpose for writing this book? 2. What do you think the Garden Bunch will be doing next summer? What clues in the selection help you to make your prediction? 3. Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. On a web like the one below, write two antonyms for the word lazy. Lazy We re going to sell the vegetables to our neighbors. Maybe we ll have incredible wealth by the end of the summer! Even if we don t earn a lot of money, we ve had fun taking care of our garden. We like being together and digging in the dirt. We re the Garden Bunch! 4. Look at the picture on pages 4 and 5. Tell two things about the garden that are not written in the text. 12