Fall Harvest by Eugene Schneeberg H O UG H T O N M IF F L IN H ARCO URT Fall Harvest by Eugene Schneeberg PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover: Digital Stock; Title Page: Photodisc, Inc.; (b) Digital Stock; (t) Corbis; (inset) © Mark Karrass/Corbis; (t) Photodisc; (b) © Joshua Ets-Hokin/Corbis; (t) Photodisc; (b) Harcourt School Publishers; (t) Corbis; 10 (b) Photodisc, Inc All other photos © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers, Attn: Permissions, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777 Printed in China ISBN-10: 0-547-25265-X ISBN-13: 978-0-547-25265-0 0940 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers retains title to the materials and they may not be resold Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format It is a busy time on a farm Some vegetables can be picked Some fruits can be picked, too It’s the fall harvest Look at the fields They have rows and rows of corn Farmers have to pick the corn Then you can buy the corn and eat it Look at the apple trees You can pick the apples from the trees It’s fun to eat them, too! Look at the ladder You can use it to get to the tops of the trees But be careful! You don’t want to fall! Look at the sky The birds are flying south The birds look for warm weather in the fall Look at the chipmunk It is looking for nuts in the woods In the fall, chipmunks gather food for the winter months Look at the field It has many pumpkins Some are large Some are small Some are round like a ball Look at the size of this pumpkin It grew and grew and grew! Look at this pumpkin Someone turned it into a jack-o-lantern! 10 Responding Word Builder Make a word web around the word woods What can you see in the woods? TARGET VOCABULARY rabbits squirrels woods Write About It Text to World Would you like to go apple picking? Write one or two sentences Tell what you would like about it Use words from the Word Builder 11 TARGET VOCABULARY busy chipmunks grew picked south tops turned woods Analyze/Evaluate Tell how you feel about the text, and why TARGET STRATEGY Which vocabulary word spells another word backwards? 12 Level: I DRA: 16 Science Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate Word Count: 179 2.1.3 Build Vocabulary HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Online Leveled Books 1101620 ... You don’t want to fall! Look at the sky The birds are flying south The birds look for warm weather in the fall Look at the chipmunk It is looking for nuts in the woods In the fall, chipmunks gather... is a busy time on a farm Some vegetables can be picked Some fruits can be picked, too It’s the fall harvest Look at the fields They have rows and rows of corn Farmers have to pick the corn Then.. .Fall Harvest by Eugene Schneeberg PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover: Digital Stock; Title Page: Photodisc,