15 Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry 40 16 The Lion and the Mouse Aesop Fable 42 17 The Ant and the Grasshopper Aesop Fable 45 18 The Fox and the Stork Aesop Fable 48 19 The Milkmaid and Her Pail Aesop Fable 51 20 The Tortoise and the Hare Aesop Fable 54 21 Peter Possum’s Playful Trick Margaret Chaplin Campbell Fiction 57 22 An excerpt from The Story of the Three Little Pigs Traditional Fiction 60 23 An excerpt from Rosy’s Journey Louisa Alcott Fiction 63 24 An excerpt from The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Fiction 66 25 Bats Randall Jarrell Nonfiction 69 26 An excerpt from The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln Wayne Whipple Nonfiction 72 27 “Biscuits” from A Little Book for A Little Cook L.P. Hubbard Nonfiction 75 28 The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies Thomas Tapper Nonfiction 77 29 The Story of a Little Boy and His Sister Who Gave Concerts Thomas Tapper Nonfiction 79 30 National Parks NPS Nonfiction 82
5 To house and garden, field and lawn, 6 The meadow-gates we swung upon, 7 To pump and stable, tree and swing, 8 Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! Notes: 9 And fare you well for evermore, 10 O ladder at the hayloft door, 11 O hayloft where the cobwebs cling, 12 Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! 13 Crack goes the whip, and off we go; 14 The trees and houses smaller grow; 15 Last, round the woody turn we sing: 16 Good-bye, good-bye, to everything. Farewell to the Farm By: Robert Louis Stevenson Checking for Understanding
Knoxville, Tennessee () By: Nikki Giovanni Vocabulary: greens – garden vegetables gospel music – church music with a lively, fun beat Notes: Knoxville, Tennessee 1 I always like summer 2 best 3 you can eat fresh corn 4 from daddy's garden 5 and okra 6 and greens 7 and cabbage 8 and lots of 9 barbeque 10 and buttermilk 11 and homemade ice cream 12 at the church picnic 13 and listen to 14 gospel music 15 outside
Weather () By: Eve Merriam Vocabulary: scatter – to cause to separate widely splatter – to cause something to move or fall galosh – rubber boots that used to be used to go over shoes in the rain Notes: Weather 1 Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot 2 Spotting the windowpane. 3 Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck 4 Freckling the windowpane. 5 A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter 6 A splatter a rumble outside. 7 Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella 8 Bumbershoot barrel of rain. 9 Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh
4 the forest gathered to watch. 5 Hare ran down the road for a while and then and paused to 6 rest. He looked back at Slow and Steady and cried out, 7 "How do you expect to win this race when you are walking 8 along at your slow, slow pace?" Notes: 9 Hare stretched himself out alongside the road and fell 10 asleep, thinking, "There is plenty of time to relax." 11 Slow and Steady walked and walked. He never, ever 12 stopped until he came to the finish line. 13 The animals who were watching cheered so loudly for 14 Tortoise, they woke up Hare. 15 Hare stretched and yawned and began to run again, but it 16 was too late. Tortoise was over the line. 17 After that, Hare always reminded himself, "Don't brag about 18 your lightning pace, for Slow and Steady won the race!" The Tortoise and the Hare By: Aesop Checking for Understanding
14 The mother eats the moths and gnats she catches 15 In full flight; in full flight 16 The mother drinks the water of the pond 17 She skims across. 18 Her baby hangs on tight. 19 Her baby drinks the milk she makes him 20 In moonlight or starlight, in mid-air. 21 Their single shadow, printed on the moon 22 Or fluttering across the stars, 23 Whirls on all night; at daybreak 24 The tired mother flaps home to her rafter. 25 The others all are there. 26 They hang themselves up by their toes, 27 They wrap themselves in their brown wings. 28 Bunched upside-down, they sleep in air. 29 Their sharp ears, their sharp teeth, their quick sharp faces 30 Are dull and slow and mild. 31 All the bright day, as the mother sleeps, 32 She folds her wings about her sleeping child. Bats By: Randall Jarrell Checking for Understanding
20 Like a car that has to be filled with gasoline, living things 21 have to eat again and again. Instead of gasoline, living 22 things use food as fuel. Food is Our Fuel By: Unknown Checking for Understanding Where do plants get their energy? Where do people get their energy?