1 3 1 mom was a baby once (fiction)

Reader

Mom Was
a Baby Once

Genre

Fiction

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Extend Language

• Growing Up
• Changes Over
Time

• Labels in
Pictures
• Patterned
Text
• Repetition

• Opposites

Scott Foresman Reading Street 1.3.1

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ISBN 0-328-14109-7

by Irene Kruger
Illustrated by Deborah J. White


Talk About It

Mom Was
a Baby Once

1. How is Justin’s mother different now from
when she was a baby?
2. How do you think Justin will change as he
grows up?

Write About It
3. On a separate sheet of paper, make a
drawing. On one side of the paper, show a
picture of you as a baby. On the other side
of the paper, draw a picture of you now.

Extend Language
Young and old are opposites. What is the
opposite of big?

by Irene Kruger
Illustrated by Deborah J. White
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
ISBN: 0-328-14109-7

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grandfather

photo

photo

baby

Justin and Grandpa look at photos.
In one photo, there is a baby.

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“Who is in this photo, Grandpa?”
asks Justin.
Grandpa says, “The man is me. The
baby is your mother! Your mom was

a baby then.”
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Justin looks at Mom in the photo.
Mom was a little baby in the photo.

4

Justin looks at Mom in the room.
Mom is not a little baby now.
Mom is a big person now.

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teeth

Justin looks at Mom in the photo.
Mom was a little baby then.
Mom had no teeth in the photo.

6

Justin looks at Mom in the room.
Mom is not a little baby now.
Mom has teeth now.

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Talk About It
1. How is Justin’s mother different now from
when she was a baby?
2. How do you think Justin will change as he
grows up?

Write About It
3. On a separate sheet of paper, make a
drawing. On one side of the paper, show a
picture of you as a baby. On the other side
of the paper, draw a picture of you now.

Extend Language
Young and old are opposites. What is the
opposite of big?

Justin says that Mom changed a lot.
Grandpa says, “Everyone grows.
Nothing stays the same.”
Justin thinks that Grandpa is right.

ISBN: 0-328-14109-7
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.
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.

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