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 Program Authors
Diane August David J. Francis
Donald R. Bear Vicki Gibson
Kathy R. Bumgardner Jan Hasbrouck
Jana Echevarria Timothy Shanahan
Douglas Fisher Josefina V. Tinajero
UNIT THE BIG CONCEPT

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WEEK 1 JOBS AROUND TOWN

The Red Hat Realistic Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

by Eva Torres; illustrated by Vincent Nguyen

Firefighters at Work Nonfiction . . . . . 22

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WEEK 2 BUILDINGS ALL AROUND

The Pigs, the Wolf,

and the Mud Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
by Ellen Tarlow; illustrated by Pablo Bernasconi

Homes Around the World Nonfiction. . . 44

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WEEK 3 A COMMUNITY IN NATURE

At a Pond Nonfiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
by Nancy Finton

Way Down Deep Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 62

by Mary Ann Hoberman

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WEEK 4 LET’S HELP

Nell’s Books Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

by Miriam Cohen; illustrated by Emilie Chollat

Kids Can Help! Nonfiction. . . . . . . . . . . 82

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WEEK 5 FOLLOW THE MAP

Fun with Maps Nonfiction . . . . . . . . 86

North, East, South, or West?
Nonfiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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 Unit 2 Week 1 Jobs Around Town Essential Question

Genre Realistic Fiction

Essential Question
What jobs need to be
done in a community?
Read about a firefighter’s
exciting job.

Go Digital!

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 Red H
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by Eva Torres
illustrated by Vincent Nguyen
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 Jen has a new job.
She gets a red hat.
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She will use this hat a lot.

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 Jen is in bed.
There is a bell!
She grabs the red hat.
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Jen can get down like this.
Go, Jen, go!
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 Jen hops on.
Go, Jen, go!
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It is a big fire!
Jen can help.
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 The fire is out.
Jen is wet.
Thank you, Jen!
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Jen plays with Matt and Jill.
There is a bell again.
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 Jen gets the red hat.
She gets in the truck.
Go, Jen, go!
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Rex is up there.
He will not come to Jim.
Jen will help!
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 Jen gets Rex.

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Jim is glad.
Rex is glad, too.
He has a new red bed.
Thank you, Jen!
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 Meet
the Illustrator
Vincent Nguyen says, “I live
near a firehouse in New York
City, so I’m familiar with its
sights and sounds. To illustrate
The Red Hat, I just walked
around the block and took
photos that helped
me draw the pictures.”

Illustrator’s Purpose
Vincent Nguyen wanted
to show what the inside
of a firehouse looks like.
Draw something that is
inside a firehouse. Label
your picture.
©Vincent Nguyen

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Respond to the Text
Retell

Use your own words to

retell The Red Hat. Tell
who the characters are,
where they are, and what
happens to them.

Write

Would you like to have Jen’s job? Describe

what you would like or not like, and why.
Use these sentence starters:
I think Jen’s job is…
I would like…

Make Connections

How does Jen help her community?

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

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 Genre Nonfiction
Compare Texts
Read about what real
firefighters do.

Firefighters
at Work

A bell rings at the firehouse.

Firefighters slide down a pole.
Richard Hutchings/PhotoEdit

They put on special clothes fast!

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The firefighters jump in a fire truck.
The red truck speeds to the fire.
It has a loud siren and a flashing red
light. That tells cars to move away!

B Christopher/Alamy

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 The brave firefighters get to work.
They use hoses to spray water.
Their special clothes protect them.
Herve Donnezan/Age fotostock

They put out the fire!

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Now it is time for lunch.
They have lunch together.
Then they wait for the next bell.

Make Connections
Richard Hutchings/PhotoEdit

How do firefighters
help the community?
Essential Question

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 Unit 2 Week 2 Building All Around Essential Question

Genre Fantasy
Essential Question
What buildings do you
know? What are they
made of?
Read about three pigs
who love mud and a wolf
who doesn’t.

Go Digital!

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 The
Pigs, the Wolf,
and the Mud
by Ellen Tarlow
illustrated by
Pablo Bernasconi

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 Three pigs lived in a mud hut.

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“It is a mess,” said Pig One.
“But pigs like a mess,” said Pig Two.
“Mud is fun!” yelled Pig Three.

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 “Get this!” yelled Pig One.
She tossed mud to Pig Two.
“Mud is fun!” yelled Pig Three.

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The bell rang.
“Little pigs, pigs, pigs, let me in.”

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 “It is a big, bad wolf!” said Pig One.
“We can not let you in,” yelled the
pigs. “You will eat us up.”

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“Then I will huff and puff,”
the wolf yelled back.
He huffed, huffed, huffed.
He puffed, puffed, puffed.

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 “Yuck!” said the wolf.
“I can not huff in mud.
I can not puff in mud.”

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He rang the bell again.
“Pigs, pigs, pigs, let me in!”
he yelled.
“We will not let you in!”
the pigs yelled back.
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 “Then I will kick, kick, kick,”
said the wolf.
He kicked, kicked, kicked.
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The hut fell in!
“Yuck!” said the wolf.
“I can not look at this mud.”
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 “You pigs are a big mess!”
“Yes!” yelled the pigs.
“Pigs like a big mess!”

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“But I do not!” yelled the
wolf. “I must get this mud
off. Good-bye, pigs.”

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 “Let’s make a hut,” said Pig One.
“We could use bricks,” said Pig Two.
“We could use sticks,” said Pig Three.

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“We will use mud,” said Pig One.
“Mud is good!” said Pig Two.
“Mud is fun!” yelled Pig Three.
“Yuck!” said the wolf.

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 Meet
the Illustrator
Pablo Bernasconi loves
illustrating animals doing
funny things. Pablo’s
studio is a mess, full of
junk and papers. But Pablo
loves being surrounded
by his things, just as the
pigs in the story love being
surrounded by mud.

Illustrator’s Purpose
Pablo Bernasconi

Pablo Bernasconi likes to

draw funny animals. Draw
and write about an animal
doing something you think
is funny.
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Respond to the Text
Retell

Use your own words to

retell important events
in The Pigs, the Wolf,
and the Mud.

Write

Look at pages 40 to 41. The pigs need

a plan. Write directions for the pigs to
follow when building their hut. Use
these sentence starters:
First, the pigs need to…
Next, they can…
Then, they can…

Make Connections

How is the pigs’ hut like a

building you know? How is
it different?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION

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 Genre Nonfiction
Compare Texts
Read about the different
homes people make.

Homes Around
the World
There are many kinds of homes.
People build their homes to fit
the place they live!

This home is built

into a rock.
Jonathan Blair/Corbis Documentary/Getty Images

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 Read
Tog e t h e r

This home is
made of wood.

This is a good home for a wet ©Upperhall Ltd/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis

place. There is a lot of water

here. The stilts help keep this
home dry.

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 This is a good home for a hot place.
There is a lot of clay in this place.
People use it to build homes. Clay
keeps the home cool inside.
©Sylvain Grandadam/Stone/Getty Images

This home is
made of clay.

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 An igloo is
made of ice.

There is a lot of ice in this place.

People can use it to build. This
is an igloo. People don’t live in
igloos. But they are good shelter
from the cold.
What is your home like?

Make Connections
Which home do you think the pigs
©Radius Images/Getty Images

in The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud

would like? Why? Essential Question
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 Unit 2 Week 3 A Community in Nature Essential Question

Genre Nonfiction
Essential Question
Where do animals live
together?
Read about animals that
live at a pond.

Go Digital!
Frans Lemmens/The Image Bank/Getty Images

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At a Pond
by Nancy Finton

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 George Ostertaq/SuperStock

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Who lives at a pond?
Who is under the water?
Who is on the land?
Who can fly to the pond?
Let’s see!
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 (t)Bob Elsdale/Stone/Getty Images; (bl)Oxford Scientific/Photodisc/Getty Images; (br)Lisa Stokes/Flickr/Getty Images

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Frogs live at a pond.
They swim and hop and jump.
Frogs rest on plants on the pond.
This frog is hunting for bugs.
It sees a bug.
Buddy Mays/Corbis/Getty Images

Will it get a snack?

It has to be quick! Yum, yum!
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(inset) David & Micha Sheldon/F1 Online/Getty Images; Nigel Dennis/Gallo Images/SuperStock

Ducks come to the pond.

They eat lots of bugs and plants.
This duck dips its bill to get bugs.
Dip, dip, dip!
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 (inset) Scott Camazine/Alamy Stock Photo; Morag Cordiner/age fotostock

Ducks make nests on land.

They use twigs and grass.
Who is in the eggs?
Quack, quack, quack!
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Jason Stemple. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Turtles can be on land and in water.

They swim and swim.
Then they stop and rest in the sun.

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 Jason Stemple. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Can fish be on land? No!

Fish live in water.
They swim, swim, swim.
A big fish comes up to eat. Gulp!
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 (inset) ARCO/J. Meul/age fotostock; Jason Stemple. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

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Bugs like water.

A dragonfly is a big bug.

You can see it at a pond.
Lots of bugs live at a pond.
 egret

goldfish

Who are they?

toad
raccoon

Look at the animals at a pond.

newt

beaver

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Der Hilst/Photonica/Getty Images; (bc) Don Johnston/All Canada Photos Inc./Getty Images; (br) Dan Pepper/Alamy Stock Photo
 Meet the Author
Nancy Finton says, “I
love living and working
in a big, busy city. But
(tl) Nancy Finton; (bkgd) Reimar Gaertner/Pixtal/Age fotostock

sometimes it feels too big

and busy! Then I wish I
were sitting by a quiet
pond with the frogs and
turtles.”

Author’s Purpose
Nancy Finton wanted to write about
animals that live at a pond. She wanted
readers to see the animals close up.
Draw a place where animals live
together. Write about your picture.

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Respond to the Text
Retell

Use your own words to

retell three important
details in At a Pond.

Write

Write two more pages about one

of the animals in At a Pond. Use
the photos to help you. Use these
sentence starters:
This animal lives. . .
This animal can. . .

Make Connections

How is the pond like

the bayou in Babies
in the Bayou?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION (br) Lisa Stokes/Flickr/Getty Images

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 Illustration: Susan Tolonen, TEXT: “Way Down Deep” from THE LLAMA WHO HAD NO PAJAMA: 100 FAVORITE POEMS by Mary Ann Hoberman.
Text copyright © 1959 and renewed 1987 by Mary Ann Hoberman. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Children’s Books, an imprint of
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Genre Poetry
Compare Texts

live in the water.

Read about animals that
Read
Tog e t h e r
Way
Down Deep
by Mary Ann Hoberman

Underneath the water

Way down deep
In sand and stones and seaweed
Starfish creep
Snails inch slowly
Oysters sleep
Underneath the water
Way down deep.

Make Connections
How is under the sea
like the pond? How is it
different? Essential Question

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 Unit 2 Week 4 Let's Help Essential Question

Genre Fantasy
Essential Question
How do people help out
in the community?
Read about an elephant
who loves books.

Go Digital!
©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

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Nell’s Books
by Miriam Cohen
Illustrated by Emilie Chollat

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©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

Nell liked to read.

She liked it a lot.
Nell could sit and read all day long.
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“Will you play with us, Nell?”
called Cat and Dog.
“Shh!” said Nell. “I am reading.”
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©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

“Will you shop with me, Nell?”

asked Pig.
“Shh!” said Nell. “This is good!”
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“That Nell is not fun at all,”
said Dog.
“She just reads,” said Cat.
“She will not do a thing!”
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 Then one day it rained.
Dog and Cat set up a tent.
©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

Pig got dressed up for fun.

“This is good,” said Dog.
“Yes!” said Pig and Cat.
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It rained the next day, too.
“We want to go out,” said Dog.
“We are sick of tents and dressing up,”
said Pig and Cat.
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 Nell went to her shelf.
©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

“Here, Dog,” she said.

“I think you will like this.”
“Yuck!” said Dog.
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“This will be fun for Pig,” said Nell.
“Cat, you will like this a lot.”
“Ick!” said Cat and Pig.
“Shh!” said Nell. “Let’s read.”
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©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

Dog read in his tent.

Pig read in a tub.
Cat read in a pot.
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They read all day long.
“This is fun!” said Cat
and Dog and Pig.
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 The next day, Nell heard clanging.
©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

She heard banging.

“Nell, come quick!” called Dog.

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“We did this for you,” said Dog.
“You can hand out books to all,”
©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

said Cat.
“Nell is good at that,” said Pig.
“That is just my wish!” said Nell.
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©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Emilie Chollat

Nell got in.

“Let’s hand out books,“ she said.
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“Shh!”said Dog and Cat and Pig.
“Let us read!”
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 Meet the
Author
Miriam Cohen says, “I have
always loved elephants because
they are smart animals that do
nice things for other elephants. I imagined
an elephant that was so smart she could
read. I had fun writing about how she
shared her love of books with her friends.”

Author’s Purpose
Miriam Cohen wanted to
tell about an animal that
helps its community. Draw
an animal helping its
community. Write about it.
Miriam Cohen

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Respond to the Text
Retell

Use your own words to

retell important events
in Nell’s Books.

Write

Use Nell’s Books as a model to write a fantasy

about a character who helps. Use these
sentence starters:
My character likes to. . .
My character helps when. . .

Make Connections

How does giving

books out help a
community?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION

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 Genre Nonfiction
Compare Texts
Read about how kids can
help out.

Kids
Can
Help!
How can kids help the neighborhood?
Kids can help grow a garden! It is fun
to plant seeds and help them grow.
Norma Jean Gargasz/Alamy

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A community garden is a great
place to help. The plants are pretty
to look at. And everyone can enjoy
fresh fruits and vegetables.

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 Kids can help clean the playground.
(l) Ariel Skelley/Blend Images/Getty Images; (r) McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Joe Polillio

They can pick up trash. They can

recycle cans and bottles.
Recycling makes the neighborhood
clean. Recycling helps our Earth, too.

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Do you want to help your
neighborhood? Think about
what you can do.

Make Connections
How does a garden help a
community? Essential Question

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 Unit 2 Week 5 Follow The Map Essential Question

Genre Nonfiction
Essential Question
How can you find your
way around?
Learn how to use a map.

Go Digital!

Funw i t h

Maps
(l) Illustration: Steven Mach; (r) McGraw-Hill Companies Inc./Ken Karp, photographer

A map is a drawing of a place.

A map shows us where we are.
It shows us how to get around, too.
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A map can be of a small place.
This is a map of Phil’s room.
How many windows do you see?
What is next to Phil’s bed?
What is by the door?
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 A map can be of a big place.
This is a map of a town.
What places do you see on
Illustration: Steven Mach

the map?
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Which street is the market on?
What is by the firehouse?
How would you walk from the
school to the library?
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 A map can be of a fun place.
This is a map of a park.
The symbols on maps stand for real
things. On this map, stands for
Illustration: Steven Mach

a place to eat lunch.

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A key tells what the symbols mean.
Match the symbol in the key with
the one on the map.
What symbol stands for the pond?
What does stand for?
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 Treasure
Island

A map can be of an imaginary place.

This is a treasure map.
What routes could you take to get
to the chest of gold? This map could
Illustration: Steven Mach

help you a lot!

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Respond to the Text
1.  Use detail from the selection
to summarize. SUMMARIZE
2. Why does the author show
different kinds of maps? What
does this help us to understand
about maps? WRITE
3. How could the map of the park
help you? TEXT TO WORLD

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 Genre Nonfiction
Compare Texts
Read about the

North,
directions on a map.

East,
South,
or
West?
Many maps show directions. North,
East, South, and West are directions.
Directions tell us which way to go.
Look at the map of the zoo. Find
each direction. Is the lion north
or south of the snack bar? Are the
chimps closer to the east or west?
Illustration: Steven Mach

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Make Connections
What is north of the baseball
field on the map of Bell Park?
Essential Question

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 Glossary
What is a Glossary? A glossary can
help you find the meanings of words.
The words are listed in alphabetical
order. You can look up a word and read
it in a sentence. Sometimes there is a
picture to help you.

Sample Entry
Photos.com Select/Index Stock Imagery

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 Bb

bug
book

The bug has wings.

It is good to read a book.

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Glossary

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 Glossary

Ee
eat
Jess can eat an apple.

Jj
job
A vet has a fun job.
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 Ll

Mm
mess
lunch

This room is a mess.

This is a good lunch.

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Glossary

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Nn
Glossary

new
mud
The pigs are in the mud.

Jim is getting new shoes.

 Glossary

Pp
pond
Ducks swim in the pond.

Rr
red
The truck is red.

(t) Comstock/PunchStock; (b) PBNJ Productions/Blend Images LLC

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Tt
Ss
Glossary

tent
shelf

We can sleep in a tent.

The books are on the shelf.
 Glossary

three
Three frogs sit.

Ww
walk
The friends walk together.

(t) IT Stock/PunchStock; (b) Ariel Skelley/Blend Images LLC

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