by Michael Falcon
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
1032497
2.2.6
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Online Leveled Books
Level: I
DRA: 16
Genre:Informational
Strategy:Question
Skill:Text and Graphic Features
Word Count: 323
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by Michael Falcon
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden Pictures. 1 Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden Pictures. 2 © Alan & Sandy Carey/OSF/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes. 3 Gerry Ellis/Getty Images. 4 M. A. Battilana/Alamy. 5 Matthew Johnston/Alamy. 6 Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden Pictures. 7 Michael Quinton/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. 8 Ace Stock Limited/Alamy. 9 M. A. Battilana/Alamy. 10 Jerry and Marcy Monkman/EcoPhotography.com/Alamy.
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Look at this beaver.
It is cutting a tree down
with its teeth.
It will build a dam.
Beaver
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The dam will stop the water in a
stream and make a pond.
A beaver uses mud and branches
to build its dam.
Dam
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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.
Swimming
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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.
Beaver home
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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.
Branch
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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.
Beaver tail
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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.
Broken dam
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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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Baby beaver
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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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Beaver pond
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Photos
Responding TARGET SKILL 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.
What They Show
Beaver?
Chewing a tree?
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.
Write About It
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Page
2?
12
beaksbranches breakdeepest
hanging pondshapewinding
TARGET VOCABULARY
TARGET SKILL Text and Graphic Features Tell how words go with photos.
TARGET STRATEGY Question Ask questions about what you are reading.
GENRE Informational text gives facts about a topic.
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by Michael Falcon
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
1032497
2.2.6
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Online Leveled Books
Level: I
DRA: 16
Genre:Informational
Strategy:Question
Skill:Text and Graphic Features
Word Count: 323
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