Spring Is Here
LEVELED BOOK • H
A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book
Word Count: 194
Written by Shaun Taylor
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Table of Contents
The Warmer Days of Spring . . . . 4
The Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Meadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Table of Contents
The Warmer Days of Spring . . . . 4
The Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Meadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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The Warmer Days of Spring
Remember how the sun feels on the
first warm day of spring?
In spring, each day grows longer
and warmer.
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The plants and animals feel it grow
warmer, too.
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The Garden
The flowers send up shoots
from round white bulbs.
The plants and animals feel it grow
Soon the garden will be filled
warmer, too.
with color.
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The robins are back at work.
They collect brown grass for a nest.
Soon they will feed wiggly worms
to hungry babies.
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The Woods
The robins are back at work.
The trees are growing again.
They collect brown grass for a nest.
The fat buds on a tree grow into
Soon they will feed wiggly worms
big, flat leaves.
to hungry babies.
Caterpillars nibble on them.
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The cricket comes out from
underground.
It rubs its wings to make the sound
“chirp, chirp.”
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The cricket comes out from
underground.
The Mountains
In the mountains, snow melts away.
It rubs its wings to make the sound
Streams fill with water.
“chirp, chirp.”
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The bear comes out from her
underground den.
She is hungry.
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The bear comes out from her
The Meadow
underground den.
A baby deer drinks its mother’s milk.
She is hungry.
Soon it will eat soft spring grass.
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Gophers kick up piles of brown soil.
They nibble on dandelion leaves.
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The Pond
Gophers kick up piles of brown soil.
It’s also warmer at the pond.
They nibble on dandelion leaves.
The turtles lie on a log in the sun.
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A water lily’s flat, round leaf
lies on top of the water.
A frog sits on the leaf and makes
a sound, “ribbet, ribbet.”
Spring is here.
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Glossary
buds (n.)
leaves or flowers that have
not yet opened (p. 8)
bulbs (n.)underground parts of some
plants that are used to
store food (p. 6)
dandelion (n.)a common, wild plant with
yellow flowers (p. 13)
gophers (n.)rodents that dig and have
large cheek pouches
(p. 13)
shoots (n.)new stems or branches
(p. 6)
water lily (n.)any of a group of water
plants whose leaves and
flowers float on the water
(p. 15)
A water lily’s flat, round leaf
lies on top of the water.
A frog sits on the leaf and makes
a sound, “ribbet, ribbet.”
wiggly (adj.)moving quickly back and
forth (p. 7)
Spring is here.
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Spring Is Here
LEVELED BOOK • H
A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book
Word Count: 194
Written by Shaun Taylor
Visit www.readinga-z.com
for thousands of books and materials.
www.readinga-z.com
Spring
Is Here
Written by Shaun Taylor
Photo Credits:
Front cover, back cover, caterpillar icon throughout, pages 1, 3, 4, 5 (all), 6, 8
(all), 9, 10, 13 (inset): © Jupiterimages Corporation; page 7: © Tom Silver/Corbis;
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Correlation
LEVEL H
Fountas & Pinnell
H
Reading Recovery 13–14
DRA
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