Beaver - Super Sweet Second Grade

Level: I
DRA: 16
Genre:
Informational
Strategy:
Question
Skill:
Text and Graphic Features
Word Count: 323
by Michael Falcon
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PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden Pictures. 1 Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden
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Beaver
Look at this beaver.
It is cutting a tree down
with its teeth.
It will build a dam.
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Dam
The dam will stop the water in a
stream and make a pond.
A beaver uses mud and branches
to build its dam.
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Swimming
A beaver lives in a pond because
the deep water keeps it safe.
Most animals that like to eat
beavers are not good swimmers.
They can’t hunt the beavers
in the water.
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Beaver home
A beaver builds its home
in the pond made by its dam.
It builds a round home of mud
and branches.
A beaver has to swim under the
water to get into its home.
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Branch
A beaver eats plants that grow
in the pond.
It also eats leaves and bark on the
trees that grow around the pond.
A beaver uses its sharp teeth
to cut off branches.
In the fall, it puts branches
in the pond so it can eat them
in the winter.
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Beaver tail
A beaver uses its tail to warn others
when an enemy comes too close.
A beaver will slap its tail
on the water.
The tail’s flat shape makes
a loud smack!
That slap says “Danger!”
to other beavers.
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Broken dam
Sometimes the stream will flood
and break the beaver’s dam.
Then the pond disappears!
The beaver must get to work
and build its dam again.
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Baby beaver
Baby beavers are born in the pond.
A beaver leaves the pond when it is
two years old.
Then the young beaver works
hard, too!
It builds a new dam and makes
a new pond.
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Beaver pond
If you spend time at a beaver pond,
you will know why a beaver is
so busy.
You will see the beaver’s amazing
home and dam.
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Responding
Text and Graphic
Features What do the photos in this book
show you? Look back at the pictures in the
book. Copy the chart below. Fill in what
you learned.
TARGET SKILL
Photos
Page
What They Show
Beaver
?
2
?
Chewing a tree
?
Write About It
Text to World Write a few sentences
that summarize why beavers are so busy.
Use some ideas from the chart above.
Remember that a summary tells the most
important ideas in just a few sentences.
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TARGET VOCABULARY
beaks
branches
break
deepest
hanging
pond
shape
winding
Text and Graphic
Features Tell how words go with photos.
TARGET SKILL
Question Ask
questions about what you are reading.
TARGET STRATEGY
GENRE Informational text gives facts
about a topic.
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Level: I
DRA: 16
Genre:
Informational
Strategy:
Question
Skill:
Text and Graphic Features
Word Count: 323
by Michael Falcon
2.2.6
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Online Leveled Books
1032497
H O UG H T O N M IF F L IN
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