Julie Lundgren - Plant Adaptations

Level: G Word Count:

100th Word: catch (page 16)

Tips on Reading this

Book with Children:

1. Read the title.

Predictions after reading the title have children

make predictions about the book.

2. Take a book walk.

Talk about the pictures in the book. Use content

words from the book as you take the picture walk.

Have children find one or two words they know

as they do a picture walk.

3. Have children find words they recognize in the text.

4. Have children read the remaining text aloud.

5. Strategy Talk use to assist children while reading.

Get your mouth ready

Look at the picture

Thinkdoes it make sense?

Thinkdoes it look right?

Thinkdoes it sound right?

Chunk it by looking for a part you know

6. Read it again.

7. Complete the activities at the end of the book.

Comprehension & Extension:

Summarize:

Where are some of the different places where

plants can grow? How have some plants adapted

to where they live?

Text to Self Connection:

What kinds of plants grow near where you live?

What type of plant would you like to grow?

Extension: Five Facts!

Write five facts to share what you learned about

plant adaptations.

Sight Words I Used:

have

some

these

they

Vocabulary Check:

Use glossary words in a

sentence.

Plant Adaptations

by Julie K. Lundgren

Science Content Editor:

Kristi Lew

ISBN 978-1-62513-760-9 (e-book)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lundgren, Julie K.
Plant adaptations / Julie K. Lundgren.
p. cm. -- (My science library)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61741-735-1 (Hard cover) (alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61741-937-9 (Sodt cover)
1. Plants--Adaptation--Juvenile literature. I. Title.
QK912.L86 2012
581.4--dc22

2011003899

Rourke Publishing
Printed in the United States of America,
North Mankato, Minnesota
060711
060711CL

Table of Contents

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A plant is a living thing. Most

plants can make their own food

using from the Sun.

Plants can look very different.

How plants look can tell us how

they live.

Over time, living things change.

These help living

things .