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What are these circles high in the tree?

Circles All Around

Literacy EssentialsEmergentGuided Reading Level: D/E

Early Intervention Level: 5–8

Word Count: 138

Vocabulary • High-Frequency Words: all, are, at,

big, in, into, like, look, on, see, the, up, will, you

• Content Words: beach, bumpy, circles, fish, frog’s eye, jellyfish, moon, ocean, round, sand dollar, sea star, seed, sky, smooth, stone, sun, sunflower, woods

Language Arts Skills: • understands that print and pictures can

inform, entertain, and persuade • uses illustrations and photos to support

and extend text • knows that sentences are made up of

separate words • understands that print represents

spoken language • reads inflectional forms and root words • understands that punctuation and

capital letters are used • understands that print moves left to

right and top to bottom • understands that written words are

separated by spaces

Content EssentialsCategory: Math in Science

Text Type: Caption

Text Features: Picture Glossary, Photographs

National Science Education StandardsLife Science: CONTENT STANDARD C

The Characteristics of Organisms • Organisms have basic needs. For

example, animals need air, water, and food; plants require air, water, nutrients, and light. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met. The world has many different environments, and distinct environments support the life of different types of organisms.

Earth and Space Science: CONTENT STANDARD D

Objects in the Sky • The sun, moon, stars, clouds, birds, and

airplanes all have properties, locations, and movements that can be observed and described.

Science Concepts • The Sun is a circle in the sky. • The Moon is sometimes a round shape in

the sky. • One type of starfish is circular. • Circle-shaped plants and animals can be

found in a variety of environments: pond, garden, beach, woods, ocean, and sky.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics StandardsGeometry • Recognize, name, build, draw, compare,

and sort two- and three-dimensional shapes

• Describe attributes and parts of two- and three-dimensional shapes

Math Concepts • Shapes occur in nature in plants and

animals. • Circles can be found in many kinds of

plants and animals.

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Look around at the pond. See the circles. Circles are round like a frog’s eye. They are round like a stone.

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Look around in a garden. See the circles. Circles are big like a sunflower. They are small like a seed.

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Look around at the beach. See the circles. Circles are smooth like a sand dollar. They are bumpy like a sea star.

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Look around in the woods. See the circles. Circles are homes, high in the trees. Circles are homes, low on the ground.

5

Look around in the ocean. See the circles. Circles are black like spots on a fish. They are pink like a jellyfish.

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Look up into the sky. See the circles. Circles are round like the sun. They are round like the moon.

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Look around and you will see circles. Circles are all around.

Circles All AroundWritten by Allyson Valentine Schrier

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Book Design: Emily J. Greazel

Image credits:

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CORBIS Royalty-Free: back cover, pp. 3 (seeds), 5 (nest), 6; iStock International: pp. 2 (rocks), 4 (sand dollar), 5 (hole in ground), 7 (moon), 8 (rocks, moon, sand dollar); Photos.com:

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Leveled content-area science books in Earth/Space Science, Life Science, Math in Science, Physical Science, Science and Technology, and

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Set B

Allyso

n Valentine Schrier

What are these circles high in the tree?