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28 pp spine = .125in 5.25 x 7.75 size

Step into the Rainforest Rice

Step into the Rainforest Rice

TCM 14630

What gets about 90 inches

of rain each year? What

has forests full of colorful

owers and insects as big as

your fist? Grab your camera

and an umbrella. Take a

tour of the worlds lush

rainforests!

Level 2.5

Word Count: 547

Reading Level Correlations:

Early Intervention Level 20

Guided Reading Level K

DRA Level 28

Lexile 690L

owers and insects as big as

your fist? Grab your camera

and an umbrella. Take a

tour of the worlds lush

Step into the

Step into the

Howard Rice

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Based on writing from TIME For Kids.

TIME For Kids and the TIME For Kids logo are registered trademarks of TIME Inc.

Used under license.

Teacher Created Materials

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ISBN 978-1-4333-3630-0

2012 Teacher Created Materials, Inc.

Reprinted 2013

Consultant

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Kent State University

Publishing Credits

Dona Herweck Rice, Editor-in-Chief

Robin Erickson, Production Director

Lee Aucoin, Creative Director

Conni Medina, M.A.Ed., Editorial Director

Jamey Acosta, Editor

Stephanie Reid, Photo Editor

Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher

Synched Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-796-1 (e-book)

Table of Contents

A Warm, Wet World ......................

What Are Rainforests? ..................

Where Are They? .........................

Rainforest Layers .........................

Rainforest Animals ......................

Protecting the Rainforest ............

Glossary ......................................... 28

A Warm, Wet World

Imagine air that is thick with

warmth and wetness. Birds chirp

and monkeys chatter. Long, leafy

vines twist around trees.

Colorful flowers look up and

try to see the sun peeking through

the branches of tall, green trees.

What is this place?

It is a rainforest.

What Are Rainforests?

Rainforests are like other

forests because they are filled with

trees and plants. But rainforests are

different in one special way. They

are very wet.

Most rainforests get a lot of

rainfall . They are also warm most

of the time. In this way, trees and

plants stay colorful and healthy.

Tropical (TROP-i-kuhl)

rainforests are sometimes

called jungles .

Rainforests like this are called

tropical rainforests .

Rainforests get about

inches of rain each year.

Thats about twice as tall

as you!

Other rainforests are wet, too,

but for more reasons than rainfall.

They get a lot of water from fog

and the moist air that comes from

nearby oceans.

Rainforests like this are called

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