&&000 ADDISON-WESLEY (1982) 2ND GRADE ADD9822N.ASC THE NITTYGRITTY RATHER PRETTY CITY by Pleasant T Rowland levels 2-1 and 2-2 Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan, edit by DPH January 31, 1993 &&111 =Nina laughed. She began to understand. The map used drawings of funny things, not addresses, to tell her where to go. What fun to go along the path made by the red dots, =Nina said to herself. And there must be a terrific surprise at the end! The map led her to the bandstand in the plaza on =2nd =Street. It led her to the =Exotic =Plant =Shop on =3rd =Street. Then she went past the big pair of skates on the front of the =Silver =Rink on =4th =Street and into the =Parking =Lot on =5th =Street. She had to go by the subway stop on =6th =Street and past the =Gardell =Shirt =Factory on =7th =Street. She stopped at the taco stand on =8th =Street and in front of the big apartment on =9tll =Street. And then, And then =Nina saw that she was on =10th =Street. The map had led her back home. She was at dull, boring =10th =Street, the street she saw every day. What a drag! she mumbled. The writer was puzzled. Who ended this story for me? she wondered. The next morning she began another story on the little typewriter. It went like this: Once upon a time a hungry fox went looking for a morning snack. Before long the fox spotted a fat bird. I would love to have that bird for my snack, said the fox. Do not chase me, said the bird. It will be a big mistake for you But the fox was very hungry. He chased the bird. The bird was flying so close to his nose that the fox didn't watch where he was going. Suddenly the bird whizzed past a cliff. The fox fell with a yelp and hung from the cliff by his left paw. This is a snapshot of lots of us at the =Kils' =Garden. The little kids come to the =Kids' =Garden in the morning. They come with their moms and dads who work in the factory. Bigger kids, like me, come after class. There are many things to do. We plan projects. We draw and sing. We do class work. We rest or we just chat. This is a snapshot of Ms =Hamilton and Ms =Britt. Ms =Hamilton is the director of the =Kids' =Garden. Ms =Britt is her helper. Ms =Hamiltoll can sing better than many singers on =TV. Ms =Britt is better at basketball than anybody at the factory. Whenever they laugh together, it looks like they will never stop. Thell we all laugh with them. I like them very much. Mrs =Martin rushed down the ramp. She held a big bundle on her left arm and her little son =Jeff on her other arm. When Mrs =Martin got to the turnstile, she rested the bundle on top of it and dug down into her handbag. She dug and dug, but she could not dig up nickels to drop in the slot. =Wllirr! =Whirr! Spill along the track. Red car is getting faster. Tall car is slipping back. Red car has no gas. Check in at the pit stop. Fill that tank up fast! =Wllirrr! =Grrrr! It is the =7th lap. Rush on past the winner's flag. You did it! You are the champ! At last, the ugly duckling was driven from the nest. He swam off and hid in the grass. Why am I big and ugly? I wish I had not left my egg. When the sun was up, the duckling left the grass. He did not swim back to the nest. He began to travel across the land. He spotted a cabin. A man sat in the cabin. A cat and a hen sat on the front steps. The duckling ran to them to ask for help. =Quack! What is that? Behind the counter there were toys and comic books. On one side there were yo-yos, pink rubber balls, and sacks of marbles. On the other side there were comic books. It looked like =TV stars, monsters, and football heroes all lived there. Whenever I came in, Mr =Benson, the owner, stopped whatever he was doing. He leaned over the counter and shook my hand. Good morning, =Janet, he said very politely. Good morning, Mr =Benson, I said. And this morning what will you have? he asked. One cherry lollipop, please, I said. Very well, Mr =Benson said. One cherry lollipop for you and one nickel for me. Then I handed Mr =Benson the nickel, all warm from my hand. Ow! yelled =Gerry =Pearl. It is stuck! It is really stuck. A taffy apple was firmly attached to her braid. =Doris =Dopolis, who wheeled the candy cart all over the park, looked up. Dear me! she cried. =Doris ran over to help. But just as she rushed up to =Gerry, the wind lifted up her scarf, and it stuck to the taffy apple, too. It is stuck! she squealed. It is really stuck. She pulled at her scarf, but it was firmly stuck to the taffy apple. One to nothing! shouted =Alan. =Ronald hit the ball again. This time =Shelby was prepared on the left side. But now the ball whizzed past on the other side. Two to nothing, said =Alan. The game went on. For every point that =Shelby won, =Ronald won two or three. =Twenty-one to =eleven, said =Alan. =Ronald is the winner. =Ronald put down the paddle and started to go. =Gail had a good time reading the story. When she had finished, she closed the book and looked up. =Mindy and =Brad applauded. So did a lot of other children. They had gathered around while =Gail was reading the story. They all wanted to hear more. Mr =Taka was standing there, too. He was smiling. You read just as well as your grandfather does, he said. Would you be our =Saturday morning story reader from now on? =Saturdays were wonderful after that. I thunder and blunder, but I am no dummy. You're safely stuffed in my steel-plated tummy. Just give me a try and the subway fare. I will always be here to take you there. =Clare laughed. She wanted to play a joke on the computer, so she typed: The computer responded: THAT IS NOT CORRECT. DEBUGGING MEANS TO FIX A PROBLEM IN A COMPUTER PROGrAM. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REAL BUGS. THIS IS THE =END OF THE FIRST LESSON. DO YOU WANT TO GO ON TO THE SECOND LESSON? =Clare typed: &&000 AMERICAN BOOK CO. (1980) 2ND GRADE AMR9802N.ASC MARCHING ALONG (2-1) TURNING CIRCLES (2-2) SOURCE: KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY (PA.) XEROX LW, SCANE DPH, March 4, 1993 &&111 How can the same day be snowy, fair, and rainy in three places? Why does a sunny day sometimes become cloudy? Why does a cloudy day sometimes become snowy or rainy? Air is a gas that can't be seen. It is all around us. As it moves, it takes in drops of water. When the air has little water in it, the sky is fair and we can feel the sun. When the air takes in too much water, rain or snow will begin to fall. =Terry got up from the bench. She was mad. "What are you saying? I think you're the best batter around. And I think I'm the best pitcher." Then =Butch got up. He was mad, too! "Pitcher, Batter, What about me," he said? "I'm a good player, too. I think I'm the best runner on the team. And I can catch and pitch, too." All three of them started to laugh. "You're right," =Grant said. "We can catch and pitch and run. I guess we are a good team. But there is one hitch. We might have some good runners and pitchers. But so far, that's about all we have!" The boys walked over to the slide. It ran from the back of the truck to a big open space in the sidewalk. Two sets of rollers ran along the slide and down into the opening. "I never saw anything like that before," said =Joe, looking down into the opening. "Do you think anyone is down there," asked =Wally? "Why don't you call down and find out," asked =Joe? "Hello down there," called =Wally! "How strange," he thought! "My shadow ranges in size from long to short. It is longest early in the morning. It is shortest in the middle of the day when the sun is right overhead." After a while, the man went to sleep for an hour or two. When he got up, he saw another strange thing. His shadow had not only changed size. It had moved from one side of him to the other! As the hours went by, the man saw his shadow change size again and again. It ranged from long to short to long again! One morning, there was a haze. The man saw almost no shadow. As the hours went by, the haze got thicker. Soon the man saw no shadow at all. It was gone. "That is another strange thing," thought the man. "One cannot see a shadow when there is a haze in the air!" The man now knew about sun shadows. He knew that he could use these shadows as a guide for telling time. "Can you pilot this," asked =Carol? She slipped into the chair next to =Silver's. "Sure," said =Silver. "We all have to pilot our ships. Earth people pilot their cars, don't they?" "Not me," said =Carol. "How do you visit someone," asked =Silver? She flipped a small red switch. "I walk," said =Carol. She clutched the arms of the chair as the spaceship shot away from earth. "There's a limit to how far you can walk," said =Silver. "What do you do when you visit someone who lives far away?" "I take a bus or a train," said =Carol, looking out the window. "And sometimes I WE'RE ON FIRE! LOOK AT THE FLAMES!" "No, we're not," =Silver laughed. "The flames are caused by the rockets. Sit back. We'll be there in no time. Why don't you start your paper now? Just hold on to that pencil." I never quarrel with =Sue. It's hard to quarrel with someone who's only four. But I do quarrel with my older sister =Rose. =Rose is ten, and she can be a real pain. She's always telling =Sue and me what to do. I'm sure I'll never be THAT kind of sister. Take the other day. =Sue wasn't doing anything wrong. She was just playing on the bed with one of her snakes. "Get that ugly thing out of here," shouted =Rose, from the other end of the bed! It wasn't even =Rose's bed. =Sue didn't say a word, but she looked so hurt that I felt sorry for her. =Agpuk's mother laughed. "What does the size of our boat have to do with your friends," she asked? "How did they learn of its size?" "I told them myself," said =Agpuk. "Now they won't talk to me because we have the best boat." "What more did you say," asked his mother in a very quiet voice? "I told them that my father has more seal hides than any other person in the village," said =Agpuk. "I told them that he has a great talent for hunting." For a time, =Agpuk's mother was very quiet. Then she said, "I think I know what is wrong, my son. It's not that we have a bigger boat or more seal hides. It is that you boast. You must stop boasting, =Agpuk." "But our boat is the best," =Agpuk insisted. "It IS bigger than any other. It CAN make a longer voyage." The game was dull as it always is. When =Steve =King threw a curve, none of the batters could hit the ball straight. But the =Zebra batters seemed to hit every pitch. When the game ended, the score was ten to nothing. My ears were ringing from my father's happy bugle playing. As we walked out of the ball park, my father said, "Well, that's over!" "What do you mean," I said? "I thought you liked going to the games." "Well, sometimes it's nice," he said. "But it does take a lot of breath to blow that bugle." "I thought you LIKED to blow it," I said. "I thought YOU liked me to blow it," he said. "But this jungle has lots of monkeys," said the lion. =Sam shook his head. "They just THINK they're monkeys," he said. "Watch!" =Sam quickly climbed to the top of the tree and let go. Down he came, heading straight for the lion. All of a sudden, =Sam reached out with his tail and caught hold of a small branch. =Sam swung wide, his arms behind his head. "See," he shouted? "No hands!" He swung from branch to branch. "Ever see anyone but a monkey do all that," he asked? "No," said the lion. "I never did." "I'm a REAL monkey," said =Sam. "That's why I live here in the =Monkey =Tree." The tall woman shook her head. "I'm sorry," she said. "I can't buy any more magazines right now. I have too many already." =Katya's face fell. The woman smiled at her again. "I'll tell you what," the woman said. "I'll give you something to sell somewhere else." "Oh, no!" =Katya thought. "Not another new place! Not another strange face!" Then she sighed. =Mama was waiting for her lemons. She would just have to do it. The woman took a big pile of rags from one of the dark corners. "Take these to the body shop down the street," she said. "The man at the shop needs rags for his work. He has pasted a sign on the wall that says WE BUY RAGS. I'm sure you can sell these to him. Come back and see me again, will you? I like to talk to girls and boys." &&000 THE ECONOMY COMPANY (1986) 2ND GRADE ECO9862N.ASC CRYSTAL FOREST (level 2-1) by Louise Matteroni et al SPRING FLIGHT (level 2-2) by Louise Matteroni et al Source: Russell Sage Troy NY xerox, scan by DPH March 3, 1993 &&111 This is more trouble than I thought it would be, =Pig said. At the same time, on the other side of the barn, =Hen scratched about in the earth looking for food. She found =Squirrel's small pile of corn. What luck, she said, someone left corn just for me. She ate every kernel. Then she stood on her toes and flapped her wings and headed back to the hen house. =Dog, =Pig, =Horse, =Mouse, and =Squirrel pushed together for a long, long time. I'm ready to rest again, =Squirrel said. He hurried around the barn, and the others followed. MY PILE OF CORN, =Squirrel shouted. My CORN'S not here. Do you know what I think we've done, said =Pig? We have pushed this barn right over your corn. Now =Horse has new things to see. =Horse, get inside and take a good look. =Horse went into the barn. It was =Chrissy's birthday. The doorbell rang and there stood =Aunt =Rosa with a large shopping bag. =Aunt =Rosa always brought great surprises when she came, and this time =Chrissy was sure her aunt would surprise her with a puppy. Hi, =Chrissy, =Aunt =Rosa said, and bent down to kiss =Chrissy hello. Then =Aunt =Rosa reached into her shopping bag and took out a red box. This isn't just any old box, =Aunt =Rosa said as she handed it to =Chrissy. =Chrissy looked inside the box, but it was empty , or just about empty. Inside, there was a note that said, =This is a =Magic =Box. Special things come in magic packages. If this is really a =Magic =Box, =Chrissy thought, maybe if I wished hard enough, a puppy would appear. People who lived many years ago spent time looking at the stars just as we do today. Sometimes they saw that some stars seemed close together. Some of these groups of stars looked like people or animals, so they gave names to these groups of stars. Two groups of stars they named are =Ursa =Major and =Ursa =Minor. =Ursa =Major means =Big =Bear and =Ursa =Minor means =Little =Bear. =Ursa =Major has many stars in it and they form the shape of a big bear in the sky. But part of the bear has another shape, too. This part has seven stars that look like a big spoon with a long, curved handle. That's why these seven stars are called the =Big =Dipper. =Fred tried to jump into the wagon, but he was too small. I wish I was big enough to drive this wagon, he cried. And so he was. The horses began to pull and the heavy wagon creaked, but it didn't move. Whew, said =Fred! One of me isn't enough for this job. I wish there were six of me so I could get it done. At once, there were five other =Freds, and each was taller than a tree. They all looked at each other and they all started talking at once. But since they were all =Fred, they all said the same thing. Helicopter! Now she knew what to do. =Kelly jumped up and got some blank paper and paint and made four big parts from the paper. After she had written a big letter with brown paint on each part, she told her mother what she wanted to do. =Kelly, =Tommy, and =Sally got all the wood they could find to make a signal fire. =Kelly made a huge pile of wood and put paper under it. Then =Sally helped her put each letter of a note that read HELP on the ground. =Kelly began to worry since everybody had waited for some time, but then they all heard the helicopter. =Mom ran out and started the signal fire. Closer and closer the helicopter came, but then it went on to =Springlake. Will it come back for us, asked =Sally? It can't, =Mom said, because that's a mail helicopter. But the pilot will get someone to help. I sent invitations to ten of my friends: =Jill, =Angela, =Joe, =Martha, =Pat, =Jenny, =Buzzie, =John, =Tina, and =Mark. I even had special birthday party invitations to send in the mail. I wrote the names on the invitations. My mother asked me to write R.S.V.P. on the invitations. I thought it meant Really Special Valentine Party. She said it meant something in =French. It meant to call or write and tell the person that you're coming or that you're not. I said none of my friends would know what it meant. She said their parents would know. =Sludge and I ran home. I put water in my sink. I took the two pieces of the invitation and turned them over and put them in the water. Now the writing on them was wet and backward. I, =Nate the =Great, looked at the writing. The writing was the same as the writing on the phony clue. I, =Nate the =Great, knew the case was solved. It was just before three o'clock. =Sludge and I ran to =Finley's house. =Finley was with =Pip. =Pip did not say anything. It is three o'clock, I said. And I, =Nate the =Great, am here, =Finley. I, =Nate the =Great, say there is no such thing as a phony clue. The writing on your phony clue is the same as the writing on the invitation. You wrote the invitation. You tore it into pieces. =PRINCE: No, thank you. But I would like a drink of water. I have come a long way. =PEDDLER: Here, you can have a drink of my water. Who are you? And why have you come so far? =PRINCE: I am a prince from a country far away. I have heard stories about a sleeping princess. Can you tell me about her? =PEDDLER: I have heard a few stories about the sleeping princess. She sleeps in the palace on the other side of the forest. Some people have gone to find her, but the forest is too dark and thick to get through. When =Hummingbird started to play games with the other children, she found out that she was small for her years. =Brave =Hawk would throw a shell down the beach. Then the other children would shout and run and try to be the first to pick up the shell. =Hummingbird couldn't run as fast as they could because she was smaller than the other children. Now =Evan had many things. but it was strange. He just was not happy. When his mother came home, =Evan said, =Mama, I'm not happy in my corner. What do I need now? Together she and =Evan stood off from the corner and looked at it. =Evan's corner was beautiful. They could see that. =Evan, his mother said at last, maybe what you need is to leave your corner for a while. Just fixing up your own corner is nice, but maybe you need to step out now, and help someone else. She left him, and he sat alone on his bench, thinking it over. =Adam came in and asked, Are you enjoying peace and quiet, =Evan? =May came and it was time for the fair. =Mother had made her quilt, =Father had made three chairs, and =Jeff's box was done. It took a long time, he said. My duck took a long time, too, said =Daniel. They went down the mountain to the fair. =Father picked up the quilt, the chairs, =Jeff's box, and =Daniel's duck and took them to the hall. The hall was a long house in the town. This is where the show will be, said =Father. People are getting it ready now. =Marty asked me to come to his birthday party. =Mom said, I will cut your hair. Don't cut too much, I said. I looked in the mirror. She did cut too much. She made three bald spots on my head! Now I won't have fun at =Marty's party, I said to myself. I put my hat over my bald spots and went out to play. Why do you have on your hat, asked =Joe? I want to, I said. Your head will get hot, said =Ann. &&000 GINN & CO. (1982) 2ND GRADE GIN9822N.ASC GLAD TO MEET YOU (2-1) GIVE ME A CLUE (2-2) SOURCE: KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY (PA.) XEROX LW, SCAN DPH March 4, 1993 &&111 =Andrew saw something upstairs. He ran down very fast. He said, Listen, =Mom. =Mom said, Wait, =Andrew. I must take =Grandma to the bus. She must get the bus before dark. Help, Over here, the boy shouted! No one heard him. No one came. The boy was all by himself. Soon the water turned his hand so cold that he couldn't feel it. He became cold all over. Soon the boy could feel nothing. How long can I last, the boy asked himself? Why hasn't someone heard me calling? He thought of his home. He thought of his sister and brother. He thought of his mother looking for him. He thought, too, of the dike. He knew the water could cover the land. He was cold and afraid, but he couldn't go home. He must stay to save the land. Can you guess why =RoomTwelve sent us the note? asked Miss =Stone. Well, it says Please Come said =Gail. Maybe =RoomTwelve is asking us to come to their room for something. That's a good beginning, said Miss =Stone. We said a code was another way to say something, said =Tim. Are the numbers showing us words in another way? Yes, That's it, shouted =Jack! Isn't it, Ms =Stone? Yes, she said. You're right. I think =18151513 means room, said =Julia. The note says they have something new. It must be in their room. You're all doing very well, said Miss =Stone. The numbers do show words. But the numbers are not all the same. Why? The =City of =Bremen was far away. The four animals rode a long time. Night came. With all the animals on his bike, Mr =Sanderson's legs gave out. They came to a house. Now in this house, there were three robbers. They were counting the loot they had brought back to the house that day. Looking in the window, =Jane said, Am I really seeing robbers? Yes, you are, said =Captain. You really are, said =Grace. No question about it, said Mr =Sanderson. I have a good idea, said =Jane. =Grace will play her banjo. =Captain will beat his drum. Mr =Sanderson will tap-dance, and I will sing. With all the noise, the robbers will run for their lives. One day =May went for a walk in the woods. She looked and listened carefully. She wanted to remember what she saw, so she made some pictures and a chart. On the chart, she wrote the names of the animals she saw. She wrote how many of each animal she saw, too. Then she wrote the time she saw the animals. Have you ever made a chart of things you saw? Charts can help you remember things. They can help you tell your friends about what you saw. They help you keep things organized. Look at the chart on the next page. It is the chart =May made on her walk in the woods. How many owls did =May see? What time did she see the heron? Did she see any squirrels? Did she see any bears? She tried pulling the tooth out with her fingers. It wouldn't come out. She tried jumping up and down. It wouldn't come out. She tried turning cartwheels. It wouldn't come out. =Elizabeth =Ann sat sadly on her steps. She had run out of ideas. Maybe her mother was right. She shouldn't worry. That tooth just wasn't ready to come out. So =Elizabeth =Ann decided to forget all about that old wobbly tooth. She took her best book about dogs and started to read. But her tongue didn't forget that wobbly tooth. Her tongue kept sneaking over to it. She sadly put the book away. =Frederick put his alligator in the box and carried it home. I don't think I should keep you, he said. When you get big, you might eat my tadpole. =Frederick thought and thought. Then he carried the alligator back to the river. Good-by, he said. I thought you would be a nice pet. But I guess I'll stick to tadpoles and maybe white mice. At home, his mom didn't think there was a lion in his room, but she looked anyway. His friends still wonder if he has a bear at home. But =Frederick won't tell. =Stephen helped his father put storm shutters on the windows. They brought small things inside. What is a hurricane, =Stephen asked? His father thought about it. A hurricane is a big cone of spinning air. The winds in the wall of a hurricane go very fast. All the warm, damp air goes to the center of the storm. The closer to the center it gets, the faster it spins. But the very center of the storm is quiet. We call this quiet the eye of the storm. The cat saw them all pulling and panting. She came and pulled behind the dog. They all pulled and pulled and puffed and pulled. The turnip did not move. Then the geese came to help. They made a goose chain, and they pulled with the others. They all pulled and pulled and pulled. The turnip did not move. This turnip is laughing at us, shouted =Grandfather!. He wiped the sweat from his brow. Get the rooster and the hen. They can pull, he said. Do you see any sea serpents, asked =Norton? I believe they are very shy beasts, said =Atherton. I see, said =Norton. We will take out the boat, said =Atherton. Do you know much about boats, asked =Norton? Not a great deal, said =Atherton. Neither do I, said =Norton. Then we should put on the life jackets, said =Atherton. Yes, said =Norton. &&000 HAPER AND ROW (1981) HAR9812M.ASC LIPPINCOTT BASIC READING D; E JUMPING UP & ROLLING ALONG by Charles Walcutt and Glenn McCracken Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan edit by DPH 12-24-92 &&111 =Beauty discovered that she missed the beast. She remembered how sad he looked. =Beauty's family begged her to stay longer. =Beauty stayed a few extra days, and then she returned to the castle. =Beauty did not see the beast anywhere. At last she found him in the garden. The beast was lying very still. His eyes were closed. What have I done! cried =Beauty. Oh, =Beast, please do not die. I am sorry I stayed away so long. I love you. I want to marry you. They dropped the money from one wallet into the pot and pulled out twice as much. Then they added that money to the money in the other wallet and dropped all of it in. After a while, the floor was covered with money. The next morning Mr =Hak-Tak went shopping to get all the things they needed. While he was gone, Mrs =Hak-Tak sat on the floor and put her arms around the pot. My dear pot, she said, you are the best friend we have ever had. It's =GONE! =Pete yelled. He stopped running. =Scooter stopped throwing. And =Jeff ran in from third base. It was gone! Second base had disappeared. Fine thing, said =Pete. =Pete was a member of the =Jets. First time this year that I hit a double and when I get here, second base is gone. Once upon a time, in a lovely forest, a little snake named =Harold lived with his mother and father. The time came when =Harold decided to leave home and seek his fortune. Get plenty to eat, his mother said. But don't bite off more than you can chew, his father added. With this advice, =Harold said farewell and crawled away. I just did the wash, said Mrs =Dorando. Let's see who can match more pairs of socks. =Nora matched six pairs. Mrs =Dorando matched nine. That's a score for me, said Mrs =Dorando. Now let's hang up the shirts, skirts, and pants. I wonder who will win this time? =Nora was careful, but she still hung up more shirts, skirts, and pants than Mrs =Dorando. You win, said Mrs =Dorando. Now the score is tied. I will go upstairs and patch the jeans you tore last week. Then I saw what =Glenmae had meant by dyeing. She dipped my white wool into one pot and it turned pink! She dipped it in again. It turned a darker pink! By the time she'd finished dipping it in and out and hung it up to dry, it was a beautiful deep red. After that, she dyed some of my wool brown, and some of it black. I couldn't help wondering if those plants I'd eaten would turn me the same colors. =Louis was the best chef in the city. His recipes for sourdough bread, oyster chowder, and lemon chiffon pie brought folks to his place from miles around. One day =Louis was asked to cater a party at a mansion. It was an important job! He and his helpers kneaded the dough, cut up the oysters with knives, and whipped the eggs for the chiffon pie. When they were through, there was enough food to feed an army. But wait a minute, =Guy thought, this a different bulldozing. This library IS much larger. =Guy scrambled across the librarian's desk. He had enjoyed his adventures so far. He must find another book right away a book someone was sure to check out. =Guy remembered that once a librarian had said many people liked mysteries. He crawled and crawled until he found the mystery books. Guy began to shudder as he read some of the titles The Legend of =Sleepy =Hollow, the =Mystery of the =Headless =Horsem~n. Why won't they obey? shouted Mrs =Creighton. Hold on, kids! The trees and houses seemed to fly past. At first =Heather was frightened, but then she noticed that =Willie was smiling. Why are you smiling? she asked. =Ben worked hard. But he knew in his heart that making candles was not what he wanted to do. So when he was twelve years old, =Ben went to live with his brother =James. He was a printer and owned his own newspaper. =Ben learned all about printing from =James. Finally =Ben felt he was ready to earn his own living. When he was seventeen he decided to go to =Philadelphia. There he worked as a printer during the day. At night he wrote and read books. People have always wanted to know about the weather. Long ago, farmers began to watch clouds in the sky. They knew that clouds meant drops of water were collecting. Is a storm headed this way? they wondered. Will we get the rain we need? &&000 combined samples HBJ9822N.ASC &&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1982) 2ND GRADE HBJ9822N.ASC THE HEART OF THE WOODS Level 2 Source: Elmira College xerox, scan, edit by DPH January 17, 1993 &&111 When the robbers were gone, the donkey, the dog, the cat, and the rooster went into the house and had a good dinner. Then they all found places to sleep. The cat curled up by the fireplace. The dog lay down beside the door. The donkey stretched out in the yard. The rooster flew to the rooftop. They soon fell fast asleep. About midnight, the robbers came back. The house was dark. Everything was quiet. So one robber went inside to look around. First he went into the kitchen. He saw two bright lights on the floor, and he thought they were coals from the fire. I'll light a match by this fire. Then I'll be able to see better. With a roar, the bear jumped out, picked up the troll, and threw him right out the door. You never saw such a thing! Trolls were running out the door. Trolls were jumping out the windows. One even climbed up the chimney! The next morning the hunter and his bear set off to see the king. Before long everyone had heard about =Farmer =Neils and his big pussy cat. And from that day on no more trolls came to visit his house. Once upon a time, long, long ago, a girl and her mother lived in a small house at the end of the village. They were very poor. Often they had nothing to eat but a small piece of bread. When there was no food in the house, the girl would go into the forest to look for nuts and berries. One morning she could not find a single nut or berry. At last she sat down and started to cry. There's no food for =Mother and me. What will we do? We're so hungry. Long, long ago the world was different. More land was under water. It was warm all the time. And dinosaurs were everywhere. =Rrra-ah was in his favorite place on top of a big white clover. He could see everything, the trees and flowers, and the pond where he was born. As he lifted his head, he could feel the summer breeze. =Rrra-ah stuck his nose into a pink clover. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When =Mary =Jo got off at her grandmother's drive, she waved good-bye and walked back up to the house. =Grandmother's eyes were open and she smiled. How did you get back so fast, child? =Mary =Jo told her about the snowplow. =Mother and =Dad will be here in a little while, she said. All our worries are over now, =Grandmother. I'll go heat some soup. That sounds good, said =Grandmother. I'm feeling better already. Thank goodness you were here, =Mary =Jo. =Mary =Jo's grandmother was quite old. She lived alone in a little house in the country. Whenever =Mary =Jo's mother or father told =Grandmother that she should move into town, =Grandmother always said, I've lived in this house almost all my life. I'm too old to move now. I'm happy here. The family drove out to visit =Grandmother often. In the spring they helped her plant a vegetable garden and flowers. Mary =Jo played with the baby chicks and fed the hens. We three went out on =Halloween, A Pirate An Ape A Witch between. We went from door to door. By the light of the moon these shadows were seen A Pirate An Ape A Witch between and, Say, how did we get to be FOUR? =Toad put his head very close to the ground and shouted, NOW, SEEDS, START GROWING! =Frog came running up the path. What is all this noise? he asked. My seeds will not grow, said =Toad. You are shouting too much, said =Frog. These poor seeds are afraid to grow. My seeds are afraid to grow? asked =Toad. Prologue There once was a boy named =Pierre who only would say, I don't care! Read his story, my friend, for you'll find at the end that a suitable moral lies there. &&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1982) 2ND GRADE HBJ9822Z.ASC ---second sample--- THE HEART OF THE WOODS by Sam Leaton Sebesta Source: Elmira College: xerox, scan edit by DPH January 18, 1993 &&111 Grandfather =Grandfather sings, I dance. =Grandfather speaks, I listen. Now I sing, who will dance? I speak, who will listen? =Grandfather hunts, I learn. =Grandfather fishes, I clean. Now I hunt, who will learn? I fish, who will clean? So the bear crawled under the table. The hunter lay down on the floor with a blanket. And the farmer's family went to sleep in their own beds. They did not sleep for long. Soon there was a loud noise outside the door. Farmer =Neils! Farmer =Neils! We have come for our dinner. Open the door and let us in. Once upon a time, long, long ago, a girl and her mother lived in a small house at the end of the village. They were very poor. Often they had nothing to eat but a small piece of bread. When there was no food in the house, the girl would go into the forest to look for nuts and berries. One morning she could not find a single nut or berry. At last she sat down and started to cry. There's no food for =Mother and me. What will we do? We're so hungry. This dinosaur was the biggest meat-eater. Its jaws were huge. Its teeth were six inches long. It ate other dinosaurs. Its name is =Tyrannosaurus =tih-RANuh-SAWR-us . A short short tail. A long long nose It uses for A water hose. Two great big ears. Four great big feet. A tiny peanut Is a treat. Its name is =El, Oh, no! I can't! Now you tell me: An. When she finally reached the main highway, =Mary =Jo could see that no cars had been along there, either. The snow was too deep. Mary =Jo's legs had never felt so tired. Then up the road she saw a black speck moving slowly closer. She stared at it. Then she waved. It's the snowplow! she cried out loud. Do you know what he saw? He saw, his SHOES! His own little shoes and nothing more. Goodness, said the goblin, hopping out of the tree. And when this =teeny-tiny woman had gone a =teeny-tiny way, she came to a =teeny-tiny gate. So the =teeny-tiny woman opened the =teeny-tiny gate and went into a =teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this =teeny-tiny woman had got into the =teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a =teeny-tiny bone. The =teeny-tiny woman said to her =teeny-tiny self, This =teeny-tiny bone will make me some =teeny-tiny soup for my =teeny-tiny supper. =Toad looked at the ground. The seeds still did not start to grow. What shall I do? cried =Toad. These must be the most frightened seeds in the whole world! Then =Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep. Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go, We'll catch a goat And put it in a boat, And then we'll let it go! One day his mother said when =Pierre climbed out of bed, Good morning, darling boy, you are my only joy. =Pierre said, I don't care! One Saturday when they reach the school, =Max still has lots of time before the game is to start. =Lisa asks him if he wants to come inside for a while.&&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1982) 2ND GRADE HBJ9822Z.ASC ---second sample--- THE HEART OF THE WOODS by Sam Leaton Sebesta Source: Elmira College: xerox, scan edit by DPH January 18, 1993 &&111 Grandfather =Grandfather sings, I dance. =Grandfather speaks, I listen. Now I sing, who will dance? I speak, who will listen? =Grandfather hunts, I learn. =Grandfather fishes, I clean. Now I hunt, who will learn? I fish, who will clean? So the bear crawled under the table. The hunter lay down on the floor with a blanket. And the farmer's family went to sleep in their own beds. They did not sleep for long. Soon there was a loud noise outside the door. Farmer =Neils! Farmer =Neils! We have come for our dinner. Open the door and let us in. Once upon a time, long, long ago, a girl and her mother lived in a small house at the end of the village. They were very poor. Often they had nothing to eat but a small piece of bread. When there was no food in the house, the girl would go into the forest to look for nuts and berries. One morning she could not find a single nut or berry. At last she sat down and started to cry. There's no food for =Mother and me. What will we do? We're so hungry. This dinosaur was the biggest meat-eater. Its jaws were huge. Its teeth were six inches long. It ate other dinosaurs. Its name is =Tyrannosaurus =tih-RANuh-SAWR-us . A short short tail. A long long nose It uses for A water hose. Two great big ears. Four great big feet. A tiny peanut Is a treat. Its name is =El, Oh, no! I can't! Now you tell me: An. When she finally reached the main highway, =Mary =Jo could see that no cars had been along there, either. The snow was too deep. Mary =Jo's legs had never felt so tired. Then up the road she saw a black speck moving slowly closer. She stared at it. Then she waved. It's the snowplow! she cried out loud. Do you know what he saw? He saw, his SHOES! His own little shoes and nothing more. Goodness, said the goblin, hopping out of the tree. And when this =teeny-tiny woman had gone a =teeny-tiny way, she came to a =teeny-tiny gate. So the =teeny-tiny woman opened the =teeny-tiny gate and went into a =teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this =teeny-tiny woman had got into the =teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a =teeny-tiny bone. The =teeny-tiny woman said to her =teeny-tiny self, This =teeny-tiny bone will make me some =teeny-tiny soup for my =teeny-tiny supper. =Toad looked at the ground. The seeds still did not start to grow. What shall I do? cried =Toad. These must be the most frightened seeds in the whole world! Then =Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep. Oh, a-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go, We'll catch a goat And put it in a boat, And then we'll let it go! One day his mother said when =Pierre climbed out of bed, Good morning, darling boy, you are my only joy. =Pierre said, I don't care! One Saturday when they reach the school, =Max still has lots of time before the game is to start. =Lisa asks him if he wants to come inside for a while.&&000 HARCOURT, BRACE, JOVANOVICH (1983) 2ND GRADE HBJ9832N.ASC THE WORLD OF SURPRISES (2-1) by Margaret Early et al PEOPLE AND PLACES (2-2) SAME SOURCE: SUNY Cortland: xerox, scan edit by DPH 1-22-93 &&111 All that day, =Jim walked and walked. At last he could not go on. He fell to the ground. Just then, he saw some =Indians. Jim shouted to them. He and =Harris were saved! The =Indians took the men to their home and gave them food. In no time at all, =Jim and =Harris were well once more, thanks to the kind =Indians. =Jim said, =Well, we did not get the horses, =Harris. But now you know who the better walker is! The man and the dolphin were soon home again. That made the people of =Sealab II very happy. =Tuffy had used the sound to find the man. He had removed him from the cave. He had returned the man to =Sealab II. Now the people felt better about working under the sea. If one of them got lost, the friendly dolphin, =Tuffy, could soon find him! Words As Tools Did you know that words can be tools? Titles and subtitles are tools for finding out things. Titles can be the names of parts of books. Subtitles can be the names of smaller parts. We use titles and subtitles to find out where things are in books. Find the titles and subtitles in this book about tools. Tools from Long Ago Tools Made of Rock Tools Made of Bone Kinds of Tools Tools for Building Tools for Home Use Making Tools Today Jobs in a Tool Shop Using Tools to Make Tools Children use many tools in school. One tool is a pencil. Some people think that pencils have lead in them. But did you know that pencils have no real lead at all? The next stop is the elephant house. The elephant needs a shot. The shot will help the elephant stay well. The doctor stands far away when the elephant gets the shot. =Ann lived with her grandfather and grandmother. One night at supper, =Ann said, Please help me. I have to remember to take a penny to school tomorrow. I'll need a penny a day from now on. A penny for what? asked =Grandfather. It is a surprise, said =Ann. It has something to do with elephants. Oh, elephants, said =Grandmother. =Maria put her name and her phone number on a piece of paper. Don't forget to give it to her, she said as she handed the paper to the man. =Maria disliked him, but she told him her idea. Skateboards, =Maria said. The people in the =Mayor's offices can ride on skateboards to move faster. The man laughed. Then he said, =Okay, I'll be sure to tell her. That night, =Maria sat beside her phone. She waited and waited for the =Mayor to call and thank her. But her phone didn't ring. Not once. Her phone did ring many times the next day. And the next and the next. But =Maria never got a call from the =Mayor. But no sooner had she done this than the girl raced up the road. She could not stop! All at once she was flying over the houses and people. She had raced past the village like the wind. At last, she turned herself about. She headed back to the village where her master lived. Alas! The shoes had a will of their own! =Grandmother came out and helped, too. She was very proud of her buffalo. Before night, there were bright pictures all over the outside of the house. We don't care how odd our house looks, =Grandmother said. The bulldozers will be pushing it down soon. Days went by, but no bulldozers came. Then, one day, a letter came. =Marcia was a very nice little pig. She never sat in the flowerpots, or painted pictures on the back door, or anything like that. Mr =Simkin and Mrs =Simkin liked =Marcia very much. Mr =Simkin made her a pen to sit in. =Marcia was very happy. On Mr =Simkin's birthday Mrs =Simkin said to him, =Stanley, there's another pig under the bed. Is it another pink one? asked Mr =Simpkin. Yes, said Mrs =Simkin. Well, she can sit in the pen with =Marcia, said Mr =Simkin. Then =Jack went over to the far side of the hole. He took out his horn and played it very loudly. At once the giant ran to the door of the cave. Did you wake me up? roared the giant. I'll get you for that. I'll get you and eat you up! =Jack did not move from the spot. Come on, he called to the giant. I'm not scared of you. I have killed many a giant bigger than you. The two knights, who were now dragons, ran to the cave of the roaring dragon. After a long fight, the roaring dragon fell down. It had been killed. But now two dragons, not one, sat roaring in the woods. And no brave knights were around to fight them! &&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1986) 2ND GRADE HBJ9862N.ASC THE HEART OF THE WOODS -LEVEL 2 by Sam Leaton Sebesta this does NOT include 2-2 (not available) SO PROB. easier than 2-2 Source: SUNY Cortland xerox scan edit by DPH January 31, 1993 &&111 The teacher was cross again, I tell my mother after school, because =Crystal was talking to me in dass. =Crystal shouldn't talk in class, my mother tells me. =Crystal says funny things, I tell my mother. =Crystal and I are taking a test. =Crystal whispers at me, Don't let me see your paper. That would be cheating. I make a face at =Crystal, and she makes a face back at me. The teacher shakes his head at us and says, =Ah-ah-ah! The sneaker is put in a hot machine. The machine shapes the shoe like a foot. Then the workers sand the sneakers until the bottoms are smooth. The sole and the top part of the sneaker are put together next. A special type of glue is brushed on the sneakers to hold them together. Two people came into the shop. They bought two pairs of shoes. Each of them gave the shoemaker a fine price, too. Dear wife, said the shoemaker that night. I made good money today. Now I have enough leather for FOUR pairs of shoes! The happy shoemaker cut the leather and left the pieces on his work table for the night. And what do you think the shoemaker found in the morning? in the deep sleep forest there were ferns there were feathers there was fur and a soft ripe peach on a branch within my Perhaps we could, his wife agreed. And they searched the house for something to trade. They looked and looked, but the only thing they could find that wasn't in pieces or tatters was a pair of socks. This dinosaur was small. It was as big as a cat. But it could run fast. It could catch other animals and eat them. Its name is =Compsognathus =comp-SOG-nuh-thus . This dinosaur was fat. It was too fat to run from enemies. That is why it stayed in the water. It was safe there, and food was close by. It ate plants. Its name is =Brachiosaurus =BRAK-ee-Oh-SAWR-US . You can't make a turtle come out, You can't make a turtle come out, You can coax him or call him or shake him or shout, But you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. If he wants to stay in his shell, If he wants to stay in his shell, You can knock on the door but you can't ring the bell, And you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. =Rrra-ah was in his favorite place, on top of a big white clover. He could see everything, the trees and flowers, and the pond where he was born. As he lifted his head, he could feel the summer breeze. =Rrra-ah stuck his nose into a pink clover. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It seemed to take forever for the snowplow to reach =Mary =Jo. She jumped up and down to keep warm, even though her legs were aching. The driver stopped and leaned over. What are you doing out here, little girl? =Mary =Jo explained to him what had happened. Can you call my father in town? His name is =William =Wood. =Max is a great baseball player. He can run fast, jump high, and hardly ever~nisses a ball. Every =Saturday he plays with his team in the park. Hello, you, are you a ghost, Hiding there behind that post? No, I'm just an old dead tree, You needn't be afraid of me. One day his mother said when =Pierre climbed out of bed, Good morning, darling boy, you are my only joy. =Pierre said, I don't care! &&000 HARCOURT, BRACE, JOVANOVICH (1987) 2ND GRADE HBJ9872N.ASC STREAMERS (2-1) & STAIRWAYS (2-2) Levels 6 & 7 HBJ Reading Program, Margaret Early et al &&111 =Jane had made ten signs. This was the last one. Now she could go home and wait. =Jane did not have to wait long. A boy yelled from under a tree, Are you the dog detective? Yes, said =Jane as she came down from her tree house. She had on her dog detective badge. I am =Tim =Wilson, the boy said. My dog, =Charlie, is missing. =Jane wrote in her notebook: =Case one, find =Charlie, the missing dog. I will need to know everything about =Charlie, =Jane said. All right, said =Stan. He went to the window and looked outside. Next he looked down at his shadow. Then he said, It will be warm and sunny all afternoon. It won't rain. Now I have to be going. Thanks for the party. With that, there was a crack of lightning. All the lights in the office went out. Next came the thunder. =Kakakabloom!!! Then the rain started to come down. =Stan waved good-bye and left. Suddenly =Henry felt drops of water. He didn't know where they were coming from. Then he felt someone tap his shoulder. Henry turned around, and there was =Beatrice. She was soaking wet. It's raining, she said. I give up, said =Henry. It was still raining the third day. =Beatrice had to go inside this time. She followed =Henry around while he looked for more books. Now you run to see the horses in the field. They watch you coming with their big eyes. Maybe the horses know you have carrots for them. When they see the carrots, the horses make little sounds. Some of the horses have babies. A baby horse is called a foal. Foals like to jump and run. They are fun to watch. Horses used to do a lot of work on the farm. Now the farmer has trucks and tractors to do this work. The farmer raises horses for people to ride. The celebration often starts on =New =Year's =Eve. This is the last night of the old year. On =New =Year's =Eve, many people celebrate by having parties at home. At midnight the old year ends, and the new year begins. People shake hands or kiss, and everybody shouts, =Happy =New =Year! Some people meet in the streets to bring in the new year. They laugh and sing and blow horns. In some cities, people in the street join hands and sing =Auld =Lang =Syne at midnight. I have come to live the simple life, said the prince. He walked inside. The farmer looked at his wife. She looked at the prince. The prince did not notice. He sat down on a chair and clapped his hands three times. I want some cheese and a cup of tea, the prince said. The farmer looked at his wife. She shook her head. The farmer just smiled. My city grandfather drives a shiny blue car. Sometimes he drives to other cities on business. My country grandfather drives an old red truck. Sometimes he drives to town to get things he needs. When I visit my city grandfather, we ride our bikes together all around town. We buy popcorn to feed the birds in the park. When I visit my country grandfather, we build a fire. Then we sing songs. A Dictionary's where you can look things up To see if they're really there: To see if what you breathe is air, If what you sit on is a chair, If what you comb is curly hair, If what you drink from is a cup. A Dictionary's where you can look things up To see if they're really there. The very best astronauts were needed for the second =Challenger flight. These people would have to work as a team. =Sally =Ride was picked as part of the second =Challenger team. This team worked very hard to get ready for the flight. On =June =18, =1983, the whole world watched as =Challenger lifted off. Sally =Ride made news. The thing that I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life, said =Sally =Ride. =Tommy was the first person to shout, I don't know who did it! Ms =Joliet had to leave the room just then. It gave =Margaret a chance to say, =Tommy, you had better never knock down anything I balance again, or you'll be sorry! When =Ms =Joliet came back, she said, We are going to hold a school carnival to raise money =We need ideas Quickly =Tommy raised his hand My dad and I could run a fishpond booth People would pay to fish for prizes Everyone clapped for =Tommy's idea =Miss =Tyler said, =Ronald =Morgan, you made a mistake. =Rosemary said, =Sally saw a house. =Tom said, Some =Rocket you are. It was almost time to go home. Miss =Tyler said, I think the plant person has forgotten to water the plants again. Guess who the plant person is? I got up and watered all the plants. While I was doing the last one, the best one, I looked out the window. Somehow I knocked the pot off the windowsill. When it was finally time to go home, =Miss =Tyler gave me a note. =Ronald =Morgan, she said. Take this note home., Try to read it by yourself. If you can't, I'm sure your mother will help you. What exercises do you do? Do you know that when you walk fast, run, swim, or ride your bike, you are really exercising? Do you know that when you jump rope or play tag, you are also exercising? Do you want to run faster? Would you like to jump higher or throw a ball better? Here are some more exercises that are fun to do and good for you, too. &&000 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN (1983) 2ND GRADE HM19832N.ASC SKYLIGHTS (2-1) & TOWERS (2-2) By William K Durr et al Source: SUNY Cortland: xerox, scanned, edited DPH 12=28-92 &&111 Like what? asked the wizard. I haven't decided, said the mouse. I thought I'd come and see what kinds of spells you had. Everything is out of order right now, said the wizard. Come back tomorrow and . Wait a minute! he said. He looked at the bottle in his hand. Here. You can have this one. It's free. And he handed the bottle to the mouse. There isn't any label on it, said the mouse. What will it turn me into? There was a big truck in the field. Beside it was a tractor. The tractor was pulling a big machine. One of the children said, The potato plants are all brown! =That is the way they should look when we dig them, said Mr =Bartlett. When the tops turn brown, we know the potatoes under the ground are ready. Please move away from the machines now. =Lily ran home as fast as she could. And there was =Ellie sitting on the top step. =Lily was happy to see her, but she asked, Why didn't you wait for me? =Ellie said, I thought =Gram would be home already. I want to see her. You knew =Gram was coming home with =Mom, said =Lily. That means she won't get home until dinnertime. Come on, let's go in and get dinner ready. =Clarence likes to watch Television, too. Every time our television is on, =Clarence watches with =Brian and me. He'll watch anything we watch. But he likes ball games best of all. Mom put an old chair in front of the television just for =Clarence. Now he knows that's his chair. And that's where he sits when he's watching television. Below are the same two sentences. You can see that there is a line under some of the words in each sentence. Look carefully at those words. Those are the words that help you think of the right meaning for the word spot in each sentence. =Sue's dog has a brown spot on its head. This is a good spot to put a doghouse. Many words have more than one meaning. If you do not think the right meaning, the sentence will not make sense. That's why you have to be sure that you think the right meaning for a word. =Gladys and I have big plans for today. We're going to play in the park all afternoon. Then she's coming to my house for supper, if I can find her. =Gladys and I have a secret place here where we leave messages for each other. I looked. Nothing. Just then =Carmela came in and looked over =Alberto's shoulder. If you're trying to make a violin, she said, you need a bridge for the strings to go over. Here, put this clothespin under the rubber bands, she said. Now try it. =Fidelia placed the violin carefully under her chin. She plucked at the bands with the fingers of her right hand. Then she pressed down on the rubber-band strings with her left hand. At last =Pete came to the city. He asked the first person he saw to tell him where he could find the magic guitar. Then he went right to the shop and bought the magic guitar. Now =Pete was very happy. =Pete set off for home with his magic guitar. He traveled along, singing as he went. Little did =Pete know that inside the guitar was =Sylvester, sound asleep. When he is by himself, =Bobby thinks about the =Navajo people. He remembers what his grandfather once told him. His grandfather said that the =Navajos will go on and on, as long as the rivers shall run and the grass shall grow. there was another flash of light. Then crash went the thunder! That was a loud one, said =Heather. It will stop soon, said =Lisa. You're brave, =Lis, said =Heather. Then =Lisa said, Let's draw with crayons. =Lisa drew a picture of a sunny day. She drew red and yellow flowers and a big, round, orange sun. Heather drew a picture of a rainy day with a flash of lightning across the sky. I like yours better, said =Heather. Here, said =Lisa. I made it for you. As she stood there in the hot sun, =Josefina suddenly felt cold. What if =Cap belonged to the very first person she met? Or did it really matter if it was the first person? First person or last person, it would be the same. If =Cap belonged to someone else, he couldn't belong to her. But maybe he was like =Josefina. Maybe he had no mother, no father, no sister, and no brother. Cap might not even have a grandfather. He might not belong to anyone in the whole world but =Josefina! Somehow =Josefina felt better. So she put her basket on her head, picked up =Cap, and started down the hill. &&000 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN (1986) 2ND GRADE HM19862N.ASC ADVENTURES (COMBINED 2-1, 2-2) SOURCE: KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY (PENN.) xerox by LW scan DPH March 4, 1993 &&111 My mother got a new job today. I got a new school. "It will be fun," said my mother. "You will make many new friends." When I walked into school, everyone stared. Everyone was with a friend but me. I had on my new shirt with the grasshopper on it. No one even looked at the grasshopper. This story is about =Grasshopper and =Ant. The story takes place in a cornfield. What is the first important thing that happens? What happens next? How does the story end? If you wanted to tell someone about this story, this is what you might say: "=Grasshopper and =Ant were in the cornfield. =Grasshopper told =Ant to stop working and come and sit in the sun. =Ant told =Grasshopper that he should be storing up food for the winter. =Grasshopper went on sitting, and =Ant went on working. When winter came, =Ant had food, but =Grasshopper had none." If you told someone just this much, you would be telling the most important things about the story. =Poinsettia had six brothers and sisters, a mother, and a father. They lived in a fine, old house that had plants and flowers all around it. Outside, there were big plants in which to hide and a rock out front to sit on. Inside, there was a window seat for reading. It was red. There was a lovely bathroom. It was blue. =Poinsettia thought it was a wonderful house. One day =Poinsettia came home from the library with a book about a dancing rabbit. =Jasper lived in a house on the corner. All day long people hurried by the house, first on their way to work and then on their way home. =Jasper didn't hurry. He didn't have any place to go. Sometimes he didn't have anything to do. He just sat under the tree and watched all the people hurry by. Sometimes they stopped and talKed to him. Sometimes they asked him questions. So =Tony's hamster, =Harvey, came to stay with =Nicholas. It lived in a nice big cage. The cage had wire on the top and a wall of glass on the front. There was also a wheel that went around and around when =Harvey ran inside it. Before =Tony left, he told =Nicholas how to take care of =Harvey. Once =Tony was on the other side of the street, he stopped and called to =Nicholas. "Just in case ~ you didn't know," he said, "hamsters are nocturnal." "What does that mean," =Nicholas called back? But =Tony was gone. No friends came over to see =Vanessa because =Vanessa didn't have any friends. "=Vanessa, dear, you don't have one friend," said Mrs =Mouse sadly. "You don't even have a now-and-then friend, or an every =Sunday friend. You don't have a rainy day, sit-by-the-window friend. There's nobody." "Trying to make friends must be the scariest thing in the world," said =Vanessa. "Well, the first time might be a little scary," said Mrs =Mouse, "but why don't you try it?" That night, a tired =Ruby and =Ricardo watched the TV news. They jumped up and hugged each other when they heard =Paul =Zepp say, "Now a special story from the zoo. =Edgar the =Elephant has turned =twenty-five!" Right there on TV, leading the others at the party in singing "=Happy =Birthday" to =Edgar, were =Ruby and =Ricardo. =Ruby laughed and said, "This has been quite a day. I did get to see the animals." "Yes," said Mr =Cortina, "I found out my children are great helpers and good cooks." "We were on TV!" added =Ricardo. Mrs =Cortina said, "This really has been a different day!" The sun makes the ground, lakes, and seas warmer. Tiny bits of water move into the air. These bits of water are called water vapor. They are so small that you cannot see them. The air carries the vapor into the sky. As the air goes up it gets colder. Bits of water vapor stick together and turn into drops of water. The water then becomes a cloud. When the drops of water in the cloud become too heavy, they cannot float in the air. Then the water falls back to the ground in drops called rain. If the air is very cold, the water comes down as snow. "Well," said =Fred, "I just wish I had a pair of horses big enough to pull that wagon." At once, there were two horses as big as barns. "I wish them hitched to the wagon," said =Fred quickly, and there they were, hitched to the wagon. He picked up some money and threw it into the wagon. It was hard to throw, and most of it fell down to the ground. The wind blew some of it away, so he sighed, "I wish this money were all tied up in a bundle." And so it was, one huge bundle. "=Aha," said =Fred! "I wish it were in the wagon." And there it was , a bundle of money bigger than a house, in a wagon big enough to hold it. =Wendell stopped and stared up at the man, and the man turned and stared down at =Wendell. Then the tall man began to smile the same way =Mother smiled. "You must be =William," he said. "No, I'm =Wendell." "I'm your =Uncle =Robert," said the man. All of a sudden, =Wendell began to feel nice inside. He smiled a big smile and said, "I'm going to the cleaner's. I have to pick up my father's suit." "You're a good boy to help out like that," said =Uncle =Robert. "Why don't I walk to the cleaner's with you?" As they walked down the street, =Uncle =Robert asked, "You never saw your grandfather, did you?" "No," said =Wendell. "When you grow up, I'm certain you're going to look like him," said =Uncle =Robert. =Wendell smiled proudly. &&000 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN LITERACY READERS BOOK 2 HOU89BK2.ASC SCANNED BY DPH 2-20-92 1989 VERSION &&111 "Wow!" said =Spider. "Will you look at that!" Some big kids down the street had built a swell tree house. One summer evening a doll and a chicken went for a walk. And they got lost. "Oh, no," said the doll. Just then a monster came around the corner. "Oh, no," said the doll. In no time Spider and =Sam were as busy as squirrels. Meanwhile =Lilly decided to take a little snooze. When =Lilly woke up the tree house was finished. "Wow," she said. "I'll be right up." "Oh, no," said =Sam. "You didn't help." "Oh, please," said =Lilly. "Oh, well," he said. "I'll just ask someone for help." At that moment a fox came around the corner. "Excuse me," said the monster. "Help!" cried the fox. "I'm getting out of here!" And away he went. "How rude," said the monster. "Do you know any heroes?" he asked his mother. "Look out the window," said his mother. "There is a hero coming up the walk this very minute." =Jasper ran to the window. "That's just father," he said. "I never knew he was a hero." "There are all kinds of heroes," said his mother. "Your father worked hard today to earn money to pay the rent and the grocery bill. Maybe he would rather have gone fishing. It is a lucky family who has a hero like your father." "My story was better," said =Lilly. "No, mine was," said Spider. "No, mine!" said =Sam. "Let's hear them again," said =Lilly. And they did. Humpback whales live in the sea but are not fish. They breathe air and stay warm in the coldest weather. Blubber is a thick layer of fat. It keeps the whales warm. When they have no food, whales can live off their blubber. She stomped off toward the balloon-pink bathroom, where the tub was just right for reading. But there, up to her chins in water, was =ChickPea, who said she =hadn't washed her feet yet. "This house would be perfect except for one thing," =Poinsettia fumed. "There are too many of us in it! It is not possible to go anywhere without running into a brother or a sister, a mother or a father!" That night, =Poinsettia was very nasty. She pinched a brother, stepped on a sister, and yelled louder than both of them put together. =Poinsettia!" a small voice called. =Poinsettia!" =Poinsettia nearly fainted dead away. There were her six brothers and sisters, her mother and her father, all squashed and crowded together and smiling from ear to ear! "We would have been back sooner," =Poinsettia's father said, "but the car got stuck in the snow. It's a good thing there are so many of us. We all got out and pushed." =Pierre counted everyone, but he counted wrong because he's only three," said =Petunia, the oldest. "I don't know why we didn't notice right away that you were missing," =Julius said, "because everything was so peaceful." "The whole time we were gone, =Poinsettia," her mother said, "we talked about what a wonderful house this is. It is our home. Perhaps we don't need as much room as we thought." On a big table were the carvings that others had done. "I see my box," said =Jeff. "I see my duck," said =Daniel. Many people were looking at the carvings. They were laughing. "What are they laughing at?" asked =Daniel. =Jeff didn't answer. Someone said, "Look at the duck!" Someone else said, "That duck is so funny!" More people came to look. More people were laughing. Now =Daniel knew. They were laughing at his duck. He wanted to go away. He wanted to hide. Then he was angry. He went to the table. He picked up his duck and ran with it. He ran out of the hall. Someone was running after him. He ran faster. He came to the river. Early every morning =Josefina and her grandfather went to the grove and picked the fruit which had ripened overnight. They carried the fruit in baskets on their heads and walked down the hill to the market place. With the money they earned from the fruit they sold, they bought candles and matches, salt and soap, and sometimes calico. Mr =February always gave =Josefina a penny or two to spend as she pleased. After her grandfather left, =Josefina took her basket and went to the grove. While she was picking the oranges, mangoes, bananas and yams, she heard a strange sound. It seemed to come from the coffee berry bush. =Josefina looked behind the bush and saw a little black burro, with a fringe of brown hair on top of his head that looked like a cap. His legs were so wobbly he could hardly stand and his ears looked as long as his legs. =Josefina picked him up and held him close. The little burro folded his soft ears and put his head under =Josefina's chin. She decided to call him =Cap. She wondered if =Cap belonged to someone. How she wished he belonged to her! She would teach him clever tricks. She would play games with him. And when he was older, she would ride on his back to the sea. =Josefina was so busy dreaming of the future, it was noon before she remembered the fruit she had picked to take to the market. =Father and =Mother Goat took =Gregory to the doctor. Dr =Ram was munching on a few pieces of cardboard. "What seems to be the trouble?" he asked. "Ice cream," said =Father Goat. "But you have to eat the box, too." =Yummy," said =Gregory. "I'm proud of you," said =Father Goat. "You're beginning to eat like a goat." "I'm learning to like everything," said =Gregory. One evening =Father Goat asked, "Has anyone seen my striped necktie?" "Not since breakfast," said =Mother Goat. "Come to think of it, I haven't seen my sewing basket today. I left it in the living room after supper last night." All night =Gregory tossed and twisted and moaned and groaned. The next morning he went down for breakfast. "What would you like for breakfast today, =Gregory?" asked Father Goat. "Scrambled eggs and two pieces of waxed paper and a glass of orange juice," said =Gregory. "That sounds just about right," said =Mother Goat. And it was. =Kay was so excited that she almost left =Freddy behind as she went leaping over bushes and hopping along the path, singing in a sort of hum my way a little song she had just made up: =Hippity! =Hoppity! =Flippity! =Floppity! Wasn't it a pity? I didn't know It was to the City I should go!" When the clock struck twelve, in came the elves, ready to set to work. But when they looked at the table and saw the fine clothes, they laughed and clapped their hands. "How happy they are!" said the shoemaker's wife. =Shah," said her husband. The elves put on the clothes, looked in the mirror, and began to sing: What fine and handsome elves are we, No longer cobblers will we be. From now on we'll dance and play, Into the woods and far away. At the foot of =MountThistle lay a village. In the village lived a little boy who liked to go walking. One Saturday afternoon the little boy was walking in the woods when he was startled by a terrible noise. He popped behind a bush. Before long a huge giant came stamping down the path. He looked upset. "=Tanglebangled =ringlepox!" the giant bellowed. He banged his head against a tree until the leaves shook off like snowflakes. Scowling crossly, the giant puckered his lips into an "O." He drew in his breath sharply. It sounded like somebody slurping soup. =Pooh!" he cried. Grabbing his left foot with both hands, the giant hopped on his right foot up the path toward the top of =MountThistle. The little boy hurried home. "Then blow," the little boy added. "Blow?" "Blow." The giant looked as if he didn't believe it. He puckered his lips into an "O." He blew. Out came a long, low whistle. It sounded like a train locomotive. The giant smiled. He shouted, "I whistled! Did you hear that? I whistled!" Then he started all over again, first with the blue, then the green, then the red, and last the yellow. He went on in this way until all the boards were painted. On each sign he painted a mark, so he would remember where to put it. When he was done, =LittleOwl looked at his wing. Each feather was a different color. He liked it so much, he dipped his other wing in the colors, too. "Now I even look like a birthday owl." He laughed. =LittleOwl picked up all the signs and carried them off down the path. "Here's the guardian of the forest, the keeper of the trees, bringing an important message to all the creatures in the forest," Little Owl said to himself. The path led away from the river into the deep woods. At the edge of the hollow was a great maple tree that had been split by lightning. "It's a birthday party!" cried =LittleOwl. He ran over to his mother and gave her a big hug. "You remembered after all!" "Remembered what?" his mother laughed. "You remembered my birthday. And it's Mole's birthday, too," said =LittleOwl. Mole was still standing back in the doorway. =LittleOwl brought him right into the middle of the party. "Happy birthday, =Mole," said Mrs Owl. "Happy birthday, =Mole. Happy birthday, =LittleOwl!" everyone cried in one voice. Then Mrs Owl brought out a big cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY spelled out in black currants. Everyone ate and laughed together. Then they all sang songs. =Mole sang the birthday song =LittleOwl had taught him. The next day =Vanessa went to school. She took her seat in class behind =Quince Moose. "It's wonderful hiding here behind =Quince Moose's antlers," thought =Vanessa. No friends came over to see =Vanessa. Because =Vanessa didn't have any. "Not one friend," said Mrs =Mouse sadly. "Not even a now-and-then friend. Or an every Sunday friend. Or a rainy day, sit by the window and nibble crumbs friend. Nobody." "Trying to make friends must be the scariest thing in the world," said =Vanessa. "Well, the first time might be a little scary," said Mrs Mouse. "But why don't you try it?" At once =LittleDoe ran to =LittleRabbit's house. And there was =LittleRabbit, fast asleep. =LittleDoe did not want to wake him up, so she nudged the turnip gently inside the doorway and hurried away. When Mrs =Cringle's sprinkler was on, he would say, "Get ready, get set, =CHAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGE !" =Nell would squeal "=Wheeeee!" as he pushed her through it. When =Nell began to walk, =Bartholomew took her by the hand. "NO NO" she cried, pulling it back! =Nell didn't want any help. So =Bartholomew offered his hand only when she really needed it. "That's the one," =Mother said, and took out her purse. The shopkeeper put the hamster in a little cardboard box with air holes punched in top. =Nicholas held it carefully on his lap on the way home. He felt much better now. At least =Tony would have a hamster that could remind him of =Harvey. When they got home, =Nicholas put the new hamster in =Harvey's cage, which they'd taken to the kitchen. It ran around in =Harvey's treadmill a few times. Then it curled up in a corner of the cage and went to sleep. Hamsters are the nicest things That anyone could own. I like them even better than Some dogs that I have known. Their fur is soft, their faces nice. They're small when they are grown And they sit inside your pocket When you are all alone. It is nighttime. You are sleeping in your bed. Many of the animals outside are sleeping, too. But others are stirring. Let's see who is awake. A little mouse steps softly out of its grassy nest. It is time to look for seeds, or berries, or nuts to nibble on. But someone in the dark forest heard the tiny sounds the mouse made. Suddenly a shadow swoops down. It is the screech owl. It closes its wings as it lands, ready to dig its hooked claws into the mouse. But the mouse is gone. It ran back into its nest. &&000 LAIDLAW BROTHERS (1980) 2ND GRADE (2-1) LAI9802N.ASC TRICKY TROLL forgot to get author from these pages from TE Source: Hobart WS xerox scan edit by DPH February 11, 1993 &&111 The people bring presents for the birthday child. He will open these presents at the party. The birthday child has a cake with candles. He will put out these candles after he has made three secret wishes. Everyone will eat some of the cake. Then they will start to sing songs and play qames. Everyone will have fun at the party, the birthday child, his family, and his friends. At school =Manuel had a place to put his coat. He always put his coat there. That was =Manuel's special place, too. But at home there was no special place for =Manuel. His home was in an apartment building. The building was old. The apartment was very small. lt's spooky out here in the country. Listen! said =Jim. I hear a noise, too. I don't hear anything, said Mr =Newman. I don't hear anything, said Mrs =Newman. And it's time both of you were in bed. It came from the back of the house. Mr =Newman put the lights on. Everyone ran outside to see what had made the noise. No one was there. I told you it was spooky out here in the country, said =Jim. Do you want to learn how to write a ghost letter? This is what you will need. Write your letter this way. Then let it dry. Now do you want to learn how to read your letter? Put it over a light and wait for a while. See what you can find out. =Little =Pocket =Mouse ran fast. In and out between the feet. He was looking for a place to hide. He was looking for the coat when the boy saw him. Don't step on him, said the boy. He's a pocket mouse! One for me and one for you, counted the first robber. And one for me! cried =Bobo. Who said that? asked the second robber. The men listened, but heard nothing. The first robber began to count again. This one for me, he said. This one for you. And one for me! cried =Bobo. Who said that? called a robber in his big strong voice. I'll snip off his ears if I catch him. One day =Old =Bamboo =Cutter went out to cut plants. Just as he always did. Much to his surprise he found one plant that was not like the other plants. It was a shining bamboo plant. How beautiful! he thought. I must cut this plant with care. Each time =Lee thought about =Mom, she was afraid she would cry. But she didn't. =Mom always made a cake for everyone's birthday. Last year there had been six on =Lee's cake. This year there should be seven. =Lee always made a secret wish after she put out each candle. Then she could open her presents. Last year Mom had made the blue dress. =Lee had called It her birthday dress. Each time =Lee thought about her dress, she was afraid she would cry. She tried hard not to cry, but this time she did. =Mother opened the door and asked, Why are you crying? Because it's my birthday, said =Lee. And no one remembers. A birthday without birthday wishes does not seem very special. But today isn't your birthday, said her mother. Your birthday is tomorrow, dear. Tomorrow? cried =Lee. =Lee smiled a big smile. Then she began to laugh. I'm glad, she said. I have been waiting all year for my birthday. I'm glad my birthday is not today. I'm glad it's tomorrow. =Kim was the first one up the next morning. She was very quiet as she went down the steps. There was =Gus on the mat where she had left him. =Gus was not asleep. He heard Kim and put his head up. =Kim walked over to =Gus. Don't you remember me? she asked. Then she stopped. Oh, no! she cried. Wait until =Mom and =Dad see this! =Mom! =Dad! =Grandma! Come here! she called. =Gus isn't a he! =Gus is a she! And she's got pups! &&000 MACMILLAN (1980) 2ND GRADE MAC9802N.ASC MAGIC TIMES by Carl B. Smith & Ronald Wardbaugh MIRRORS AND IMAGES " " Levels 11 & 12 2nd grade Source: SUNY Cortland: xeroxed, scanned, edited by DPH 1-11-93 &&111 ACT =TWO =Storyteller: And so the would-be musicians started the long walk to =Bremen. They were still a long way from the town when night began to fall. They were so tired that they decided to sleep in the woods. When they were getting ready to sleep, they saw a tiny light at the other end of the woods. They decided to go and see what it was. It could be a house where they might find food and a warm place to sleep. They got nearer and nearer until they were a few feet from an open window. They could hear voices. Donkey went over and looked in the window. =Donkey: There are three men, they look like robbers. They are sitting around the table eating. I have never seen so much food! =Dog: How can we get some of it? He ran to the door to call his mother. But, when he opened it, there she was, with his father and his grandma, and his aunty! You remembered my birthday! he cried. He danced up and down. Imagine that! And he gave each of them a special birthday kiss. Then he opened his presents. As soon as the crow had turned his back, the alligator ate him up. What are you doing to old crow cried the bear. Give us back our crow, yelled the dog. Quick, bear! Get that alligator, said the rabbit. The bear got the magic alligator by the tail and pulled. Down came the alligator from the tree. But =Jenny and =Mike and =Howard went too fast. They had lots of places to go, and they never stayed anywhere very long. By the time =Allen caught up with them, they were off again. Hurry up, =Allen! they would call back to him. Keep running, =Allen! One day they heard that the ice-cream man was giving away free samples. They ran after the ice-cream truck. You wouldn't want to be one if the sun were out, said her brother. Then another truck came down the street. I wouldn't want to drive a truck in all this rain, =Carmen thought. But she didn't say it. She didn't want her brother to hear. There wasn't much to watch from the window after that. There was no one in the street. =Carmen was sad. Why does it always have to rain? she thought. I wish there were something to do! She was feeling sorry for Fog is a cloud made of water drops. It is a cloud on the ground. If you live on a high mountain, you may see a lot of fog. Fog can come right into your yard. It was seven days after the day =Joshua's mother had come home with the clock box. When =Joshua came down to breakfast that day, everyone said Good morning. But no one saw that he didn't have the clock box with him. That afternoon, =Joshua's mother went up to his room. She saw the clock box by the window. The tape was cut off. The box was wide open. She did not see anything in the box. =Joshua! Your box is open. Your dragon is gone! =Joshua's mother called. I know, said =Joshua. He was ready last night. And his wings were very strong. He flew away. =Did he really? But =Joshua, where could he fly to ? asked his mother. So the bears asked the little brown bear to be the head of every bear party and every bear play. It was his job to make up things. It was his job to pretend. The little brown bear loved his new job. And all the bears saw how good he was at it. At last the little brown bear knew how special he really was. The story you have just read called The Dog and the Bone is a fable. A fable is a very short story. Fables are nearly always about animals, but they teach something that people can learn. Here is another fable by =Aesop. Once a big lion was taking a nap. A little mouse ran over his foot and woke him up. You will be my dinner! roared the angry lion. Oh, please let me go, cried the mouse. Someday I can help you. You are too little to help me, laughed the lion. But he let the mouse go. Later, the mouse heard the lion roaring. She ran to see what was wrong and found the lion tied in a rope. Quickly she set to work and soon had the rope off the lion. Part Two The Contest =Miyoko and I played checkers every day. It got harder and harder for me to beat her. Then, one day, =Miyoko won a game. You're really getting good, =Miyoko, I said. It's awfully hard to beat you. Thanks, =Ginny, said =Miyoko. I like playing with you. It's fun. Where did you get that? =Ricky laughed. That is the most awful thing have ever seen ! said =Pam. I found it in a little shop, Mrs =Thomas told them. And I think it's wonderful. And very special. Oh, =Mother ! said =Pam and =Ricky, and they went out to play. =Gordon walked and walked. The hot sun beat down on him. And =Gordon began to ask himself why he was going along. Why didn't he do some thinking for himself? Why had he followed all the other goats, who were following the lead goat just because that was what they always did? It all seemed very silly to =Gordon. Then he saw something way off, ahead of all the goats. It was a big, dark-looking thing. And it was coming right at them. It began right on the ground and it went right up into the sky. =Gordon had never seen anything as big before. Mr =Perez showed the class how to flip the balero. Some of the boys and girls took turns, too. Then =Anita took a piggy bank from the box. That's very nice of you, =Geraldine, said =Randolph, and he held out his tail. Then he ran up the tree. =Geraldine found some more sap, called =Randolph. He had opened his paws and was hanging by his tail. It works! Thank you, =Geraldine. Everyone came over to look. Then =Geraldine yelled, =Randolph, You're doing it! Look at =Randolph! He's doing it! Sure he's doing it, said =Eugene. He can always do it with the sap on his tail . &&000 MACMILLAN (1983) 2ND GRADE MAC9832N.ASC MAGIC TIMES (combine 2-1 and 2-2) Source: KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY (Penn.) Xerox by LW scan by DPH &&111 One day =Lisa and =Ivan were on their way to a shop. They were on their way to get some ice cream. Then they saw a little man selling balloons. Oh, let's get a balloon, =Ivan, said =Lisa. We won't get ice cream this time. =Mister, we want a balloon, said =Lisa to the man. Here is our money. Well, now, little girl, said the balloon man. What balloon do you want? You can have one that hums. Just give me the money for the hummer. =Lisa and =Ivan wanted a bright green balloon. They wanted a hummer, too. So they gave the man some more money for the hummer. It was seven days after the day =Joshua's mother had come home with the clock box. When =Joshua came down to breakfast that day, everyone said Good morning. But no one saw that he didn't have the clock box with him. That afternoon, =Joshua's mother went up to his room. She saw the clock box by the window. The tape was cut off. The box was wide open. She did not see anything in the box. =Joshua! Your box is open. Your dragon is gone, =Joshua's mother called! I know, said =Joshua. He was ready last night. And his wings were very strong. He flew away. Did he really? But =Joshua, where could he fly to, asked his mother? Soon the girls were making signs to each other, and making up all kinds of silly games. Time flew by. They forgot about the rain. Then, the other girl pointed at =Carmen. Then she pointed down at the street. I wonder what she means, =Carmen thought, as the little girl pointed again. Then =Carmen saw that the rain had stopped. Now she knew what all that pointing was about. Her new friend was saying, I'll see you outside.'~ You look like a big old slug, =Allen, said =Mike. This is how you look. He went limp and flopped down onto the grass. He said, This is soft. What is soft, asked =Howard? The grass, said =Mike. It's soft as a bed. =Howard tried it. He lay on his back. It is soft. And it smells like , it smells like grapes. More like watermelons, said =Mike. It does not, said =Jenny! You can't tell from up there, said =Howard. Once there was a little boy. He lived with his mother and father and grandmother. One day he was thinking about his birthday. It was a long time away. But he was thinking about it anyway. What if no one remembers my birthday, he said to his mother? Shall I tell them? No, said his mother. The best part about birthdays is having people remember without telling them. But they would be sorry if they forgot, said the little boy. Yes, they would, said his mother. And so would you. But still the best part about birthdays is having people remember. =Robert =Louis =Stevenson was born in =Scotland. He was sick for most of his life. When he was a child, he had to stay in bed much of the time. But he was busy reading books. When he was older, he went to see other countries. He liked being a traveler. He wanted to write about the places he had seen. =Stevenson wrote many books. One of his books is =A =Child's =Garden of =Verses. He wrote this book of poems for children. But the poems of =Robert =Louis =Stevenson are loved by people of all ages. This piggy bank is made of clay, said =Anita. It is painted red, green, white, and brown. Boys and girls in =Mexico keep their money in piggy banks like this one. Then Mr =Perez took something small out of the box. This is a candy lion, he said. We make other animals like donkeys, coyotes, and horses out of candy, too. They are very good. =Pirates. Once he joined the =Pirates, =Clemente wanted to show the world that a =Puerto =Rican could be the best baseball player there was. It was not always easy for =Roberto =Clemente to keep playing baseball. In =Puerto =Rico, his back had been badly hurt when he was hit by a car. One time when he was playing for the =Pirates, a ball hit him and hurt his arm. For most of his life, his back and his arm hurt every time he played ball. But =Clemente wouldn't let anything stop him from playing. He had very strong arms and strong hands. He could hit and throw a baseball very well. As the years went by, he became a star player. One year he was named the best player in the league. Four times he was the best batter in the league. When =Roberto =Clemente first joined the =Pittsburgh =Pirates, they were in the last place in their league. But with =Clemente's help, they started to win. Just as =Ricky was about to yell Strike three! a loud cracking noise sounded throughout the house. Mr and Mrs =Thomas ran into the kitchen, with =Pam right behind them. They stared at the mirror. And they all understood just what had happened. Mr and Mrs =Thomas didn't say anything. =Pam was quiet, too. =Ricky just said, I got a little carried away. And then they all went back to bed. No one talked to anyone else the next day. They were all thinking about =Friday. They were all very nervous. They missed the mirror, but no one got mad at =Ricky. They all understood what it was like to get carried away. She moved the child's bed nearer to the window. Then she went off to work. Later that day when the mother came back, the little girl looked very happy. =Mother, I believe I'm going to get well, she said. All day long the sun has been shining on the little plant. It's coming along fine - and so am I. I know I'll be able to get up soon. It would be so nice to go out into the sunshine again. That would be so wonderful, said the mother! But she really did not believe such a thing could happen. Still, she was thankful to the little plant that had made her sick child so happy. So she took a little stick and put it up right next to the plant. Then she tied a piece of string from the window sill to the upper part of the window. Now the little pea had somewhere to climb. &&000 MACMILLAN (1986) 2ND GRADE MAC9862N.ASC READING EXPRESS --WISHES--2-1 Virginia A. Arnold and Carl B. Smith --SMALL WORLD --2-2 " " Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scn edit by DPH January 31, 1993 &&111 =Melissa liked her friend =Tami very much. When her blue sneakers came, she wanted =Tami to be the first one to see them. She gave one of her two submarine stickers to =Tami, because =Tami was her friend. When =Tami said that =The =Bear =Who =Played =Basketball was a very funny book, =Melissa read it, too. =Melissa liked to dance to music. At home she put on music so she could dance. She could turn and jump and kick in time to the music. She wanted to be a ballet dancer. =Tami wanted to be a ballet dancer, too. One day the ballet teacher said, we will have a show. It will be =Peter =Pan. We will put on the show for two nights. I will pick children to be in it next time you come. The next day, one of =Amanda's bears was missing. This is very strange, she said What is strange? asked her father. My little brown bear is lost, said =Amanda. It will turn up, said her father. I hope so, said =Amanda. That night her father said, Look what turned up . My bear! said =Amanda. Now it is a music box, said her father. And it is for you. It looks like the bear at the circus! said =Amanda. Did you make it for me? Why? Because you are very special to me, said her father. Because you make me smile. And because you like bears so much. The music played, and the little bear turned around and around. =Paul and his friends are on the swimming team. The coach teaches them to dive in the water and swim fast. She can time them when they swim. She teaches them that they must keep an eye on the boy or girl next to them in the pool. The coach will help them see what they must do to be first in a race. =Paul and his friends must know what to do when people need help in the water. Each of the children must keep an eye on the coach when she teaches them the special points of lifesaving. She teaches them what they can do on land to help. They should not go into the water for lifesaving, because they are too little. They must try to help on land. =Paul and his friends each take a turn at lifesaving. =Burly =Bear said, Now wait, friends. I will get the boat home, but we are a team. Will you help? You are right, said =Fred and =Charlene. We are a team. We will get home, scared or not. Now, what will we do, first? =Burly said, First we must look for land. =Charlene, you fly up in the sky and look. =Charlene spread her wings and flew up in the sky. I see something green, she called. It could be land. =Burly said, =Fred, look for rocks and things in the water. I will drive the boat. So =Charlene called down to =Burly, Go left, or Go right. =Fred looked for rocks, and =Burly turned the boat in the water. A truck will move the big things, but each of you can take something, said m mother. I will take my basketball, said =Nan I will take my paints, said =Mark. I will take =Eric, I said. I will take =Bubbles, said =Eric. =Bubbles is =Eric's pet fish. =Eric is my little brother. He is too much. First my father drove. Nan, =Mark, =Eric, and my mother sang. I was quiet. Nan, =Mark, =Eric, and my mother looked for red cars. I didn't. Then my mother drove. The family was quiet this time. My father wanted =Eric to sleep, but he couldn't. You know what? =Eric said to me. In the country we can have a big pet. We can have a huge pet! Like what? I asked. Like an ostrich! said =Eric. An ostrich is not the right pet for this family, =Eric, said my mother. I feed the pets every day. We have a dog and a cat I put water out for them, too. I feed the pets so =Jason can take care of my brother. =ason, my brother, and I go to the park together. My brother rides with =Jason. I am so big that I can ride on my own. =Jason and I play a game together. My brother is too little to play. We take him to see the little zoo in the park. I don't want to be a teacher, said =Debbie, or a dancer. I don't want to drive a bus or a truck. You could fly a plane, said her mother, or paint pictures. They are not the kinds of things I like to do, said =Debbie. I want to be something special, but I don't know what it is. I wish I could help you, =Debbie, said her mother. But you are the one who will know the kinds of things you like. Someday you will know what you want to be. You have time. I know now what I want to be. A mother, right? asked =Debbie. A mother and a soccer coach, said her mother. We did eat and eat at the picnic, but we played, too. Some of us played ball. =Ken's home run was something to see! It was a very special game. You can see that this race was pretty special, too. Running like this is funny to see. People in the race were laughing. People looking at the race were laughing, too. At home =Pilar's mother said, Get ready for bed. May we have a bedtime story? asked =Pilar. We will each read a story, said =Pilar's mother. =Pilar and =Rita looked at stickers. They jumped up and down on the bed. Then =Pilar's mother came in. Time for bed, she said. You read first, said =Pilar. So her mother read the story =Bedtime for =Bears. You are next, said =Pilar to =Rita. I will read a scary story with a strange, huge turtle in it, said =Rita. I am not scared of a story like that. =Pilar read her story, =The =Music =Box, last. Then it was time for bed. The next day =Pilar helped make the bed, but =Rita did not help. =Pilar picked up her sneakers and put them away, but =Rita left her sneakers under the bed. I have to feed my fish, said =Pilar. Do you want to help? But =Rita did not want to help. You must work all the time, she said. Then =Granny and =Grandpa dance. They dance without any music, just humming the tune to each other. When they are through, =Grandpa says, That's the way =Granny and I used to dance on soft summer nights long ago. I had never thought about =Granny and =Grandpa dancing together. But I am too sleepy to say anything more. So =Grandpa picks me up piggyback, and takes me upstairs. =Granny tucks me into my bed. We give each other hugs and =Lion, too. Good night, =Granny, I say. Good night, =Jenny, she says. But =Grandpa says, Oh, what a beautiful, lovely, noisy day. It was the year when =Jonathan was eight that he went over =Hemlock =Mountain. He was a fine big boy for his age. That was why his mother could send him over the mountain all by himself. Home for =Tom was a space station. The space station was like an island city. It was very busy. There was important work to do at the station. People did much of the work with computers. These computers helped people learn of the strange things that take place in space. =Tom's father was one of the weather forecasters for the space station. He had a weather satellite and computers to help him forecast the weather. =Tom's mother needed computers to do her work, too. She was making a new map of the many stars that could be seen from the space station. =Tom was busy, too. He went to school on the space station. He liked to read about how people first began to travel in the sky. There were pictures in one book of a blimp and an airplane. There were pictures of the first space walk and the first satellite, too. It was very hard to play in the city. With all the rushing and roaring, people couldn't hear something right next to them. How could they hear =Fred's music? What can we do? asked =Fred. =Amanda and =Mike looked very sad, and so did =Fred. Wait, said =Willie. There is an island right here in the city. It is quiet, and people can hear us. If they can hear us, said =Mike, I know they will like us. And, said =Amanda, if they like us, I know we will be stars. I will like it if they can hear us, said =Fred. Stars or not. Do you like to work or play? In =The =Ant and the =Grasshopper, the grasshopper does not work, but does play all the time. The ant does not play, but does work all the time. The grasshopper will not get ready for winter. The ant works in the spring and the summer to be ready for the winter. This story is called a fable. A fable is a little story that teaches something. What does the fable teach you? I screamed because I was so happy that I caught the =North =Wind! said the boy. Where is the wind? the people asked. In my blanket, he said. If you have the wind in your blanket, show it to us, said the people. I can't show you the wind, said the boy. If I do, it will get out. =The people began talking together. They said the boy didn't have the wind. They said he couldn't have caught the wind. After some time, the boy said, =All right, I will show you the wind. He picked up the blanket, and the wind roared out. =David was very happy. He was camping with his family in the woods. He said to his mother and father, I know I will like camping in the woods. The wind will help me go to sleep. There is so much to do when we are camping! I hope we can go swimming, and take a long walk in the woods, and go on a picnic, too. We can do many things, but I hope it doesn't rain, said =Father. Right now it's time for us to get ready for bed. =David called to his little brother, Come on, =Paul! It's bedtime! Come into the tent now! I am coming right now, =Paul said. Wait for me! I am a little scared of sleeping in the woods. =David said, Don't be scared. I will take care of you. I will read you a story. I know that will help. &&000 MACMILLAN (1987) 2ND GRADE MAC9872N.ASC BIT BY BIT (level 6--2'1) & FRIENDS ALOFT (Level 7--2'2) by Virginia A. Arnold and Carl B. Smith Source: SUNY Cortland, xeroxed, scanned, edited by DPH 12-22-92 &&111 To make music, =Jasper said. We've got a radio for that, his father said, and he began hammering so loudly that =Jasper couldn't tell him about the guitar in the window of =Anderson's =Music =Store that looked as if it belonged to him. Maybe I can make a guitar, =Jasper thought. He found an empty cigar box, and his big brother =Paul helped him nail a thin board to it for a neck. Then they strung it with rubber bands. =Jasper took it out on the front-porch steps and started to sing and play. But no matter how hard he tried, he and his guitar just didn't seem to be singing the same song. It didn't sound like a guitar at all. It sounded like an old cigar box strung with rubber bands, and =Jasper put it down. A week went by. =Jasper got a new pair of shoes. His wife told him, Take the money back to the rich man. I don't mind being poor. It will be worth the money to hear you singing again. The excited shoemaker took the bag of money and ran to his neighbor. His knock woke the rich man. I'm sorry, but I cannot keep your one =hundred pounds, the shoemaker said. I want my happy life back. I want to sing and sleep. I have always been poor, but I have never been unhappy. There was a train set in =Mindy's window. Every morning on his way to school =Peter stopped to admire it. That sure is the finest train set I've ever seen, he would say. Just look at that engine, that coach, that flat truck, that caboose, and that track. A fine train set like that must cost a lot of money. Come on, said his brothers and sisters. We'll be late for school. What are you getting =Peter for his birthday? =Anna asked =Ma and =Pa. He sure wants that train set in =Mindy's window! Two eggs at nine o'clock and toast at two o'clock, says =Nana to =Grandpa. A drop of jam, I tell =Grandpa, at six o'clock. I make my plate of food a clock, too, and eat through =Grandpa's eyes. After breakfast, I follow =Grandpa's path to another room. He takes his cello. Will you play with me, =John? he asks. Read what the messenger hears the little man say in the folk tale =Rumpelstiltskin. Soon I'll bring the queen's child here She will never win my game For no one in the kingdom knows That =Rumpelstiltskin is my name. Look at the words with a line under them. Say the words, game and name. These words sound alike. They have the same vowel and ending sound. Read the sentence parts below. Match the parts so the last words rhyme and make a sentence. =1 A day in the sun if you are hot. =2 This is the spot can be so much fun. Ms =Bloom went on. I thought we could try something new. On =Name =Day you can each pick out a new name, and the whole school will call you by that name for a full day. Try to pick a name that will mean something to you. Look at your family tree. Ask your mother and father why they gave you your name. Think about it. It's time to read, =Bets, said =Mother. But I haven't tried my brand new skates yet, said =Bets. She skated to the street. =Betty =Anne, come here now! cried =Mother. When =Mother spoke like that, it was a sign to move, and move quickly. =Bets skated back to the porch. After you read for a while, you can try your new skates, =Mother said. Do I have to read the whole book? asked =Bets. Oh, =Bets! said =Mother. You may like this book. You picked it out at the library. I'll read with you, she said. Just as they sat down on the porch steps, =Bets's brother came out to say there was a call for =Mother. First, I'll take this one apart. I want to see how it is made, answered =Orville. He began to pull the paper off the kite. A kite is really a flying machine, isn't it, =Mother? asked =Wilbur. In a way, she answered. But what do you think makes it fly? =Orville looked at the broken kite. I think the wind pushes on the paper, as it pushes on a sail, he said. Maybe we should use more paper to catch more wind. But birds wings don't look like sails, said =Wilbur. The wings are round on top like this. He made his hands look like wings. We should make the cross piece round to look more like wings. =Orville waved the broken kite around. A kite isn't a bird, he shouted. The wind will push a round cross piece higher, said =Wilbur. It won't, said =Orville in a loud voice. As for you, young man, she looked hard at =Jimmy, =You stay right here and take down this contraption. Right now. Break it up, every bit of it, mind you. She turned on her heels and headed for the house. =Amelia hung back. It isn't fair, she said to =Jimmy. You're getting the blame. It was my idea. So what! =Jimmy shrugged. She'll get over it. You'll get to go to =Chicago. She never tells my pa, and she won't tell yours either. Do you know something? =Amelia smiled, You're really okay, for a boy. =Jimmy grinned back. Just send me a postcard with something nutty on it like, Girls can, too! Do you ever go outside at night to see the sky? How many stars can you see? Try to count them. Do you think you can count them all? The best way to see the stars is to ride in a rocket ship. You could go sailing up into the black and silent night. Higher and higher you would go. Soon you could look down on the earth below. You would be in space! You may really do this one day. Many people have already gone into space on rocket ships. The rocket ships carried the people high into space. The earth looked like a giant ball to them. It must have seemed to sit in space without moving. =Ezra =Jack =Keats was an artist and writer for over =30 years. He died in =1984. In stories like =A =Snowy =Day, readers feel they know the character =Peter well. =Keats style is to tell his stories as simply as possible. In this way, the reader can add his or her own experiences to the story. =Keats began drawing when he was four years old. He never took a real art lesson in his life. As an adult, =Keats decided to become an illustrator. After doing art for other people's books for ten years, he started to write his own stories. =Mother laughed. There are parks, playgrounds, and sidewalks to roller skate on. But I don't know how to roller skate, said =Kate. You'll learn, =Mother said. I'll buy you a pair of skates. When =Mother said goodby to =Kate at =Grandma's house, she gave her the new skates. =Kate sat on the porch after =Mother had gone. Just then two girls came out of the house next door. They were on skates. I'm =Beth, said one of the girls. I'm =Jo, said the other. Come and skate with us. =Kate shook her head. I don't know how. The girls looked surprised. =Kate, can't, skate! they said and on they went down the sidewalk. Their words rang like a song, =Kate Can't Skate, =Kate Can't Skate. =Theodore and his friends knew each other well and liked to play and work together. Sometimes, even when you don't know someone well, you can still work together. A sculptor and some school children work together to make a special place in their neighborhood. Many kinds of animals make their homes in a special place in =New =York =City. This place is not a zoo. The animals are not real. They are sculptures made by school children of every age. The set of animal sculptures is a gift. The gift is for all the children on this earth. You can go on a visit there. You may even touch the animals! The person who brought this idea to life is the sculptor =Greg =Wyatt. He made a very large sculpture that stands in a park. The sculpture tells of =Greg =Wyatt's hope for peace. But Mr =Wyatt wanted to do something more. &&000 OPEN COURT (1985) 2ND GRADE OPN9852N.ASC A FLINT HOLDS FIRE (2-1) & FROM SEA TO SEA (2-2) Levels E and F, by Marianne Carus Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scanned, edited by DPH 12-23-92 INVOKED THE 5X/1000 RULE for 'wee' &&111 People in tall buildings And in stores below; Riding elevators Up and down they go. People walking singly, People in a crowd; People saying nothing, People talking loud. People laughing, smiling Grumpy people too; People who just hurry And never look at you! Sing a song of people Who like to come and go; Sing of city people You see but never know! Once there lived an emperor who was more interested in clothes than in his people. All day long he thought about new clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day. He was so busy changing clothes that when one of his people wanted to see him, the servants would always say, The emperor is in his dressing room. One day two men, who were not as honest as they should have been, came to the land. They sent word to the emperor that they were weavers. The cloth we weave is very unusual, they said. It is entirely invisible to anyone who is silly or unfit for his job. This would be a fine cloth for me to have, thought the emperor. Then I could learn much about the people who There are secrets everywhere. When =Mother comes into the room, =Joan quickly hides something under the table. Please don't look, =Mother, she calls. She is working on a surprise for =Christmas. All of a sudden when =Father and =Mother talk together, they start whispering. If the children could only hear what they are whispering about! Secrets, secrets, and nobody should find out about secrets before =Christmas. Snow is falling softly and silently. Streets and roofs and fences and cars are covered with white blankets. The children have to put food out for the birds. In the evenings they sit in front of the cozy fire and sing =Christmas carols: =Joy to the =World, =Jingle =Bells, =Away in a =Manger. =The children talk about =Santa =Claus coming through the snow with his sled and his reindeer. You have to be good to each other, =Mother says. Santa =Claus comes only to good children. =Joan and =Jimmy are writing their lists for =Santa. They know what they want. Edward cannot make up his mind. He wants to talk to =Santa when he comes to school. After =Santa has come, there will be no more school until the =New =Year has come. In =Sunday school they will have a =Christmas party, and =Joan will be an angel in the =Christmas play. She will wear a long white gown and a silver crown and look like a =Fairy =Queen. It is exciting just to think about it! tender leaves and green buds for her family, there came a knock at the door. Open the door, children. Your mother is here with food. But the voice was deep and gruff. The little kids knew it was not their mother, so they said, =You aren't our mother, and we won't open the door. You have a gruff voice, and we know you are the wolf. So the wolf ran off to a shop and bought some honey, which he ate to make his voice soft and gentle. Then he came back and said, =Open the door, my dear children. It is your mother with something to eat. But the wolf put his black paws on the window sill, so the kids said, =No, we won't open the door. You are not our mother. She doesn't have black feet. You are the wolf. So the wolf ran off to a baker. Put some dough and flour on my feet, Mr =Baker =Man, he said. I hurt both my front paws this morning. =So the baker put some dough on the wolf's forepaws and sprinkled them with flour. Then back the wolf went to the cottage. He rapped on the door. Open the door, children, he said. Here is your mother with something for all of you to eat, so open the door at once. Let us see your feet, said the little kids. The wolf put his white forepaws on the window sill. So the kids opened the door, and in ran the wolf. The little kids were very frightened! They ran every which way trying to hide from the wolf. One ran under the kitchen prince saw all the ladies and gentlemen asleep and the king and queen next to their throne. Everything was so quiet that he could hear himself breathing. He went on and finally came to the tower. He opened the door to the little room in which the princess slept. There she lay and was so beautiful that he could not take his eyes from her. He bent over her and kissed her. At the touch of the kiss the magic spell was broken. Slowly =Sleeping =Beauty opened her eyes and smiled up at the prince. They went down hand in hand, and the king woke up, and the queen and all the people of the court looked at each other with big eyes. The horses in the yard got up, the dogs barked, the doves flew off the roof into the field, the flies started crawling up and down the walls again, and the fire in the kitchen woke up and crackled and cooked food once more. The roast started to sizzle. The cook boxed the kitchen boy's ear so that he screamed. Then =Sleeping =Beauty and her prince were married in great splendor and lived happily ever after. with the best hunters of the tribe, to hear the terrible noise of the great herds as they ran, and then to help bring home the kill made this the most thrilling day of any Indian boy's life. We all knew that the scouts had come in and reported buffalo near and that we must all keep the camp in stillness. Even the horses and dogs were quiet, and all night not a horse neighed and not a dog barked. Quiet was everywhere. The night before a buffalo hunt was always an exciting night, even though it was quiet in camp. There would be much talk in the tepees around the fires. There would be sharpening of arrows and of knives. New bowstrings would be made, and quivers would be filled with arrows. It was in the fall of the year, and the evenings were cool as =Father and I sat by the fire and talked over the hunt. I was only eight years of age, and I knew that my father did not expect me to get a buffalo at all, but only to try perhaps for a small calf should I be able to get close enough to one. I was greatly excited as I sat and watched =Father working in his easy, firm way. You can picture me, I think, as I sat in the glow of the campfire, my little brown body bare to the waist, watching, listening to my father. My hair hung down my back, and I wore moccasins and breechcloth of buckskin. To my belt was fastened a rawhide holster for my knife, and this night, I remember, I kept it on all night. I went to sleep with my bow =Thurgood =Marshall! the teacher said. Stop that! =Thurgood was just about to throw another spitball. Ma'am? he said. He tried to look innocent. How come your parents call you =Thorough-Good, when you're so =Thorough-Bad? =She gave him a small book. You just march yourself down to the basement, she said, and memorize this page from the =Constitution of the =United =States. =The =Constitution? =Thurgood asked. Yes, she replied. That's the rules people are supposed to live by in this country. WORDS TO WATCH =Constitution =Supreme =Court balcony civil rights separate lawyer slavery streetcars usher While people were talking about building the great =Pacific railroad from east to west across our country, another kind of railroad was running from south to north. It was called the =Underground =Railroad. But it was not really under the ground, and it was not really a railroad. It was a secret group of people who helped =Negro slaves escape to freedom in the =North. The home of each member in the group was a station on the railroad. =Some members acted as conductors to lead the slaves to safety. One of the bravest of these conductors was =Harriet =Tubman. Harriet was born a slave, but her spirit was born free. She lived with her parents and ten brothers and sisters in a one WORDS TO WATCH conductors wound gourd officers unconscious passenger did you get yourself in this plight, wee small man that you are? With that he knocked his foot on something small on the ground and he looked below. There he saw a wee cobbler's bench with pegs and bits of leather and with all the things of a cobbler's trade. =Aha, he said aloud to himself and the wee man. It is a leprechaun you are, wee man. The leprechaun had stopped his squealing, and now he spoke with great impatience. It's a small matter if I am. Take me off the blackthorn, where I'm likely to die if you don't. And take great care that you do not tear my breeches, for they are a new pair. You can well believe that =Patrick =O'Donnell was filled with more than wonderment now, for he knew that the leprechaun was safe in his hands. He could ask where the crock of fairy gold was hidden, and the leprechaun by all the laws of fairy trade was bound to tell him. So, with great care, he took the wee man by the scruff of his neck and the seat of his breeches and gently lifted him free of the blackthorn. Put me fast to the earth, said the =wee man. I will not, said =Patrick. It is a leprechaun you are, and it is on you I'll keep my hands and my eyes until you'll be after telling me where the pot of gold is hid. Have a heart, said the =wee man. What is a pot of gold to you? From =Florida to =California, the =Spanish brought their language and way of life. Florida means full of flowers in =Spanish. California is the name of a treasure island in a =Spanish story. The first white men to see the =American =Midwest were =Frenchmen who came from =Canadian settlements. About =fifty years after the =Pilgrims sat down to their =Thanksgiving feast, =Marquette and =Joliet took birch canoes down the =Wisconsin =River to the =Mississippi =River. They were sent as missionaries to preach to the Indians and as traders to buy furs from them. Marquette was a priest and =Joliet a trader. For two weeks the travelers paddled down the river, and in all this time they did not see a single Indian. After they had gone =hundreds of miles in this way, they came to a place where they saw tracks in the mud. This part of the country is now called the state of =Iowa. &&000 RIVERSIDE PUBL. CO. (1986) 2ND GRADE RIV9862N.ASC LEVEL 7 & 8 ON STAGE; FRONT ROW by Barbara D. Stoodt et al Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan, edit by DPH February 3, 1993 &&111 One afternoon, there was a ball game in the schoolyard. Higher and higher the ball went, until it landed on the roof of the gym. The ball bounced to the edge of the roof. Then, instead of dropping down from the edge, the ball stuck in the rain gutter. All the children groaned. A teacher jumped and stretched his arms as high as he could, but he couldn't reach the ball. I would need shoes with springs to reach that high, he said. =Timmie and =Nina threw two more balls to push the ball out of the gutter, but that didn't work. Now we'll never finish our game, complained =Timmie. =DUCK: I am having a party to welcome her, so be at my house at three o'clock. =BEAR: But we pick berries then. =DUCK: We can pick berries from the bushes tomorrow afternoon, so don't grumble. =BEAR: But the berries will be too ripe tomorrow, and they won't be good to eat. =DUCK: One more day won't hurt since the berry bushes will still be there tomorrow. Now I must telephone everyone to tell them about the party. =Duck leaves. A short time later, =Rabbit comes in, nibbling a carrot. =RABBIT: Good morning, =Bear. Duck is having a party to welcome =Chipmunk. It will be lovely. Are you going? One day, she made up her mind. She went to a shop and got paints, brushes, and an easel. When she came home, she set up the easel by a window. Then she sat down and painted her village just the way she remembered it. When her painting was finished, she took the other painting off the wall. She hung hers up instead. Every day, =Emma looked at her painting and smiled. When her family came to visit, =Emma would hide her own painting in the hall closet. She would put her birthday painting back up again. As soon as her family left, she would switch the birthday painting for her own. When class was over, =Vanessa saw =Lisa =Goat. =Lisa was alone. Here is a chance to make a friend, thought =Vanessa. She went up to =Lisa. She whispered =Hello in her ear. What? asked =Lisa. Hello, whispered =Vanessa. What? asked =Lisa again. =Vanessa walked away. When she got home, she told her mother what happened. Saying hello usually works, said Mrs =Mouse. Maybe you did not speak loud enough. Try again tomorrow with someone else. You might be lucky. I will try, said =Vanessa. =Polly and =Willie went to the bookcase by the wall. The dictionary is gone, said =Willie. Yes, but look, said =Polly. Here is the key I lost by accident. I have been looking for it a long time. A key is something you should never lose. It will not help us find out what the word serendipity means, said =Willie. Put the key away, and come on. =Polly put the key in her pocket. Then she and =Willie went to the desk. =Henry couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the schoolyard. There were rides, balloons, and tables all over. There were so many people that it was hard to move. Balloons! Balloons! Buy a big balloon! a boy yelled to him. Do you want to ride a horse? asked a woman with a big hat. Rides for sale. No, thanks, =Henry said. Could you tell me where the =White =Elephant =Sale is? I think it is way down by that fence, said the woman. =Henry saw many people by the fence. The unicorn sniffed the air, and =Carmen looked around. It was getting warm, and the ice and snow began to melt. The trees were turning green. A rainbow appeared. The animals became real animals again. They were not statues. It's good to move again, said a bear. A duck yawned and said, I am thirsty. Only =Tragg did not change back, for he had disappeared in an icy rolling cloud. The unicorn, of course, couldn't stop smiling and said, I am home at last. =Carmen, come and meet all my friends. =Unicorn told all the animals how =Carmen had tricked =Tragg, and they all cheered. =Carmen said, It was nothing. I just made =Tragg take a good look at himself! One day when the sun was already up, =Crab did not go home to sleep. He was jealous of =Sea =Gull's silver coat and planned to take it for himself. Hello, =Sea =Gull, jealous =Crab called out. I want to ask a favor. May I borrow your beautiful coat? My coat? cried =Sea =Gull, afraid. If I give away my coat, the sun won't rise. Don't worry, said =Crab, smiling. The favor is only for today. I am going to visit =Tree =Lizard. He'll be so pleased to see the silver, shimmering coat. =Sea =Gull felt that he couldn't refuse to do the favor. Tree =Lizard was a good friend, and friends should be made happy. We go into the kitchen and say good morning to =Nana. Close your eyes, =John, =Nana says, and tell me what breakfast is. I smell eggs and toast, I say. You are getting to be just as good as =Grandpa, =Nana says with a smile. We all sit down at the breakfast table. When =Grandpa eats, the food on his plate is placed like numerals on a clock. Two eggs are at eight o'clock, and toast is at two o'clock, says =Nana to =Grandpa. I make my plate like a clock, too, and eat my food as =Grandpa does. After breakfast, I follow =Grandpa to the living room. He opens the window to feel the weather outside. His cello is in the corner of the room. Will you play your cello with me, =John? he asks. One day, a thirsty crow found a jug with some water at the bottom of it. How lucky I am! thought =Crow. Now I can have a drink of water. She bent her head and put her beak into the jug. But the water was so low in the jug that =Crow's beak could not reach it. =Rosa is using solar energy, too. She uses the sun's energy to grow vegetables. =Rosa keeps her plants in a sunny window in her room. She depends on direct sunlight to make the plants grow tall and strong. Without the sun, it would be very hard to grow food. Did you ever hear someone say, It is so hot, you could cook your food on the sidewalk ? That is a funny way to speak about using solar energy. But some people have built stoves that do cook by using sun power. On a hot day, the rays of the sun heat the stove. Of course, the stove must be near a window that lets in the sun. Just think! You can cook dinner and be warmed by the sun at the same time! &&000 SCRIBNER (MACMILLAN) 1987 2ND GRADE SCR9872N.ASC EACH NEW DAY & TURN A CORNER by Jack Cassidy et al Level 10, 11 in SCRIBNER READING SERIES Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan edit by DPH 12-25-92 &&111 A snail, a lizard, and a chipmunk lived in =Farmer =Jake's garden. A brown hare wanted to live in the garden, too. I will make friends in the garden, he said to himself. The brown hare picked a spot and started to make a little hut. The winter rains were not far off. The snail, the lizard, and the chipmunk still had lots to do. The snail helped the chipmunk paint his hut. The lizard helped the snail put up a tent. The chipmunk helped the lizard make a mailbox. =Rosa put the kitten in the middle of the hall. Now go! =She clapped her hands and closed the door again. But the kitten didn't go. It yawned and snuggled up to =Rosa's door. After a while =Rosa opened the door a crack. There was the kitten, asleep in front of her apartment. It woke up and began to meow again. Are you lost? asked =Rosa. The kitten licked her hand. Come with me. I'll help you find where you belong. =Phillip was a young boy who enjoyed making mechanical toys. One day =Phillip was very excited. His class was going to go on a tour of the =Space =Center. His teacher had shown the class photographs of a mechanical man they had at the =Space =Center. =Phillip and his best friend =Joseph were eager to meet =Mechanical =Max. As soon as they arrived, the boys went to find him. They hoped to get his autograph I wish the mechanical man lived at my house, said =Joseph. Just think =Joseph =Andrew =Boyd, the only kid on the block with a mechanical man to do his chores! =Wow! Look, there he is, yelled =Phillip. He's coming up to meet us. I want to touch him and see what he is made of. He seems to be made of shiny chrome, said =Joseph. And look at the nuts, bolts, and screws in his stomach. I wonder if he ever gets stomachaches. I can help you, the wise man said. I can tell you what to do. What? said =Peter. Get a cow, said the wise man. What good is a cow? said =Peter. But =Peter got a cow anyhow. The cow said, =Moo. =Moo. The bed creaked. The floor squeaked. The leaves fell on the roof. =Swish. =Swish. The tea kettle whistled. =Hiss. =Hiss. I don't see it, said =Pete. Let's go. They spent all day looking for second base. They asked a lot of kids. They looked in a lot of funny places the garage, the washer, the dryer, and the baby's sandbox. But they did not find second base. They looked for a long time. Then =Pete had another idea. Maybe, he said, just =MAYBE =Abner borrowed his pillow back. Surprise! said Mrs =George. This paint set is not for =Madge. It's for you! It's my way of thanking you for all that you have done for me. I told you it was for =Madge so that you would pick the best one, and I'm so glad that you did. So am I! yelled a very happy =Gigi. Then she and Mrs =George opened up the box to paint the very best picture that the very best paints could paint. He ate another lantern fish. And swallowed down an eel. A pity! said the =Glisson =Glop. How sad it makes me feel. He found his tattered storybook And held it to his face. I can't make out the words, he said. I'll never find my place! =Davy shivered. A norther might bring icy weather, and they had a long way to go. They had left the =Goodnight =Ranch in =Palo =Duro =Canyon, =Texas, a week ago. It would take two months to bring the herd into =Dodge =City, =Kansas. There the longhorns would be shipped on railroad cars to =Chicago. =Davy guided his horse past tumbleweeds rolling slowly in the breeze. Sand crunched under hooves and rose in little gold clouds. Cattle often tried to stop and eat dry clumps of grass. And when they wandered into low trees, the cowboys had to drive them back to the herd. =Davy looked at the big steer. Old =Blue, you've got your work cut out for you. Here comes the river. We have to get across before the wind changes. The water was icy, but =Old =Blue plunged right into it. Cattle and cowboys followed. =Farmer: I've got him. Go get a rope. SON dashes off to get it. =Farmer: We can have stewed turtle with our corn tonight. SON dashes back quickly with a rope. =TURTLE: I'm not a turtle. I'm a bird. =Farmer: YOU look like a turtle to me. They put a rope around his shell. =TURTLE: Well, I'm a flying turtle. SON: =Then why didn't you fly? =TURTLE: hurt by the truth =Oh =Farmer and =SON start to walk home, leading the turtle by the rope. =NARRATOR =The turtle was upset but he realized this was no time for just wishing. So he said to himself: =TURTLE: =Things being what they are, I think I'd better give up flying and take up singing. =TURTLE starts to sing, and =Farmer and =SON begin to sway and dance until they get themselves and =TURTLE all tangled up. =TURTLE stops singing. That's when everything began to be different. In the mornings we had to rush around making our own beds and clearing the table. We had to do this because my mother was busy getting ready to leave, too. We even had tO find our own underwear and socks. We had to eat lunch in school because there was no one home at lunchtime anymore. I HATE EATING LUNCH IN SCHOOL. The lunchroom smells like fish or frankfurters. And all that yelling gives me a headache. The next afternoon, =Hasan closed his shop very early. Nodding to this one and smiling at that one, he strolled home. Everyone was feeling the happiness of the holidays. His wife met him at the door. Come in, she said. Your mother and our daughter are here. =Hasan was surprised. His mother? His daughter? =Hasan's mother looked lovely in her new scarf. 00000 000 SCOTT FORESMAN READER GRADE 2--1ST LEVEL 5 SCOT21.TXT 00000 000 SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY, GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS 00000 000 RAINBOW SHOWER (no author on cover) 1981 00000 000 TRANSCRIBED BY DPH MAR 1983 Stratified SRS pages: 8-5; 39-1; 00000 000 66-5; 92-3; 126-7; 149-4; 186-3; 204-8; 225-4; 236-2. 00001 111 =Frog was in his garden. =Toad came walking by. What a fine garden 00002 111 you have =Frog, he said. Yes, said =Frog. It is very nice, but it 00003 111 was hard work. I wish I had a garden, said =Toad. Here are some 00004 111 flower seed. Plant them in the ground, said =Frog, and soon you 00005 111 will a garden. How soon, asked =Frog? Very soon, said =Frog. 00006 111 =Toad ran home. He planted the flower seeds. Now seeds, said =Toad, 00007 111 start growing. =Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds 00008 111 did not start to grow. =Toad put his head close to the ground and 00009 111 cried, Now seeds, start growing! 00010 111 There's a fire a few houses down, she called. =Gwendolyn looked 00011 111 up from her writing just long enough to see many people rushing 00012 111 to see the fire. But she did not move. =Gwendolyn did not want to 00013 111 see the fire. She wanted to write a poem. =Gwendolyn wrote 00014 111 another line. Her mind was far away from the fire. She was alone, 00015 111 but she was happy. She was happy because she was writing a poem. 00016 111 =Gwendolyn was seven when she wrote her first poem. She lived in 00017 111 =HydePark, Illinois, with her mother, father and brother. 00018 111 Everybody in her family was very proud of her. But her mother helped 00019 111 her the most. 00020 111 What can I do, =Theodore says. My cousin is at the end of the 00021 111 forest, and here I am in the middle of the forest. And I have a bad 00022 111 leg, and I can't walk. I know what I'll do, =Theodore says. I'll ask 00023 111 my friends for advice. That's what friends are for. Along comes 00024 111 =Theodore's friend, the bird. Why are your sitting here in the 00025 111 middle of the forest, asks the bird? I have a problem, says 00026 111 =Theodore. I have a bad leg, and I can't walk. And I can't meet my 00027 111 cousin at the end of the forest. If I had a bad leg, I would fly 00028 111 to the end of the forest, says the bird to =Theodore. It's nice 00029 111 of you to give advice, says =Theodore to the bird. 00030 111 The race! All the sudden =Lydia remembered =Andy. She ran up the 00031 111 road. =Andy was at the top of the hill, alone. The race was over. 00032 111 Dr =Arnold was handing the prize dog to a very happy girl. The 00033 111 other children were cheering. =Andy looked at =Lydia. His eyes 00034 111 were big and cold. =Lydia hugged him and he pulled away. Then he 00035 111 turned and ran. Wait, =Andy, cried =Lydia. I'm so sorry. I really 00036 111 mean it. I was fixing the car but I didn't have enough time to 00037 111 finish. But =Andy didn't stop. He didn't look back. =Lydia waited 00038 111 until he turned the corner. Then she walked back to Dr =Arnold's 00039 111 house. She sat on the ground and put her head in her hands. She had 00040 111 never felt this bad before. Now she knew how =Andy felt. 00041 111 =Linda smiled again. Not a bad invention, said =Diane. =Linda kept 00042 111 right on smiling. No one said anything for a long time. They were 00043 111 looking at the sidewalk. Then =Luis leaned back and said, You know, 00044 111 it's nice. Yes, =Linda said. It's very nice. 00045 111 Three soldiers walked down the road in a strange country. They 00046 111 were tired, and they were hungry. In fact, they had eaten nothing 00047 111 for two days. How I would like a good dinner tonight, said the 00048 111 first. And a bed to sleep in, said the second. But all that is 00049 111 impossible, said the third. We must march on. On they marched. 00050 111 Suddenly they saw the lights of a town. 00051 111 I climbed back on my bike again and began to ride. I rode past the 00052 111 creek and past the library. As I rode, I looked up. And there was 00053 111 =Ellen. Right smack on top of the library flagpole. Boy was I glad 00054 111 to see her! Don't worry, I cried. Help is on the way. I ran into 00055 111 the library. Mrs =Lojohn, I shouted. My sister's been flying all 00056 111 over town and now she's stuck on the flagpole. We ran out of the 00057 111 library. Mrs =Lojohn looked up to the top of the flagpole. I looked 00058 111 up too. =Ellen wasn't there. There was nothing to say. I just 00059 111 turned away, climbed on my bike, and rode away. 00060 111 There was a strange mark on the sidewalk. =Hmmmm, =Jonathan said to 00061 111 himself. A bicycle mark! It seems someone has been riding a bicycle 00062 111 through wet grass and has left a mark on the sidewalk. So! The 00063 111 mysterious shadow rides a bicycle! =Jonathan went upstairs and got 00064 111 his magnifying glass. Then he went outside again. He looked at the 00065 111 mark for a long time. =Hmmm, he said at last. It seems one tire 00066 111 has a patch on it. At school the next day =Jonathan told his friend 00067 111 about the mysterious shadow. This is what I know so far, he said. 00068 111 First, the shadow makes round noseprints. And second, the shadow 00069 111 rides a bicycle with a patch on one tire. It's probably a cat or 00070 111 something, his friend said as he ran off to play ball. 00071 111 Tomorrow is another day, said my mother. On Wednesday I didn't want 00072 111 to go to school. I cried and said I had the mumps. I cried and said 00073 111 I'd run a way. My mother said, Get on the bus. At school we drew 00074 111 pictures. The teacher held the best pictures up in front of the 00075 111 class. My pictures wasn't one of them. We played =Captain-May-I 00076 111 I wasn't the Captain. But when we played baseball, I made it to 00077 111 second base. That night my mother said, How was school? Give it 00078 111 time, I said. Maybe I should talk to the teacher tomorrow, she 00079 111 said. I'm not a baby, I said. On Thursday we made airplanes and 00080 111 the teacher hung mine up. Just mine. I wore my octopus dress and 00081 111 someone said, Is that a snake? 00082 111 At knowing things the old crow is still the young crow's master. 00083 111 What does the slow old crow not know? How to go faster. The young 00084 111 crow flies above, below and rings around the old crow. What does the 00085 111 fast crow not know? Where to go. 00086 111 Have you ever seen a plant walk? Of course not. Plants don't 00087 111 walk. They stay in one place. But that doesn't mean that plants 00088 111 don't move. They do move. Flowers open and close. Some close in the 00089 111 rain. They open again when the rain stops. Many flowers close up 00090 111 at night and open in the morning. Others open and close at 00091 111 different times. 00092 111 I have something, said =Duck. Today I cleaned my house. I did not 00093 111 bake. I have something, said =Bear. He reached into his pocket 00094 111 and took out two little honey cakes. =Bear, cried =Duck, you are 00095 111 spilling crumbs on my floor. He grabbed another piece of paper and 00096 111 put it under =Bear's chair. =Duck, =Bear said, you are a very good 00097 111 housekeeper, but what good is a clean house if you have nothing 00098 111 to eat? Taste one of my honey cakes. =Bear and =Duck each ate a 00099 111 honey cake. They spent the rest of the afternoon doing a puzzle. 00100 111 The next day, =Duck went to see =Bear. What smell's so good, asked 00101 111 =Duck? 00000 000 SCOTT, FORESMAN READERS GRADE 2--2ND READER LEVEL 6 SCOT22.TXT 00000 000 SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS 00000 000 CRYSTAL KINGDOM (no author on cover) 00000 000 TRANSCRIBED BY DPH MAR 1983 STRATIFIED SRS pages: 10-0; 54-0; 00000 000 92-5; 120-0; 137-4; 179-8; 204-5; 239-7; 253-6; 190-0. 00001 111 One sunday, =Benjamin was watching his father fix a leak in a pipe 00002 111 in their basement. It was just a small leak. But still, it was 00003 111 taking =Benjamin's father a long while. As =Benjamin waited, he 00004 111 used his wonderful imagination. He imagined a funny old camel. The 00005 111 camel had glasses sitting on the end of his nose. My camel says 00006 111 you're turning that pipe the wrong way, said =Benjamin. Your father 00007 111 knows what's do, his father started to say. But a great gush of 00008 111 water stopped him. The water rushed out of the pipe. It was awful! 00009 111 It splashed all over =Father. It splashed all over =Benjamin. 00010 111 What you will need: =3 pieces of heavy, coated construction paper. 00011 111 The three pieces should be different sizes. Each should be rolled 00012 111 into a tube and taped together. Roll the threee small pieces of clay 00013 111 so that they will fit into the tubes. Put one piece of clay into 00014 111 each tube. If you fit it in right, the clay should close off one 00015 111 end of the tube. Place the tubes side by side. Look at the size of 00016 111 each piece. Put the shortest tube on one end. Put the longest piece 00017 111 on the other end. Put a piece of clay in between each piece of 00018 111 tube. Tape the three pieces of tube together. When you are finished, 00019 111 your panpipes should look like this. Now you are ready to play your 00020 111 panpipes. 00021 111 =Jean looked at the eggs in the incubators every day. Just before 00022 111 an egg is ready to open, =Jean takes it out of the incubator. She 00023 111 puts it in another box called the brooder. The brooder also keeps 00024 111 the eggs warm, But the brooder is a better place for the baby bird 00025 111 to be born. In a brooder the bird will have room to walk around. 00026 111 Did you know that in the brooder birds talk to each other even 00027 111 before they're born? I didn't, until =Jean told me about it. She 00028 111 explained that in the brooder two eggs are placed very close 00029 111 together. Soon a bird in one egg will begin to chirp. The bird in 00030 111 the other egg hears this sound. Then it begins to chirp too. 00031 111 There was an old well here long ago, she said. Now it is empty. I 00032 111 put boards over it. But the boards must have worn away. So that's 00033 111 how =Mu fell in, said =Johnny. That's how she fell in, said Mrs 00034 111 =Ling. I will fix it so nothing will ever fall in again. Mrs =Ling 00035 111 held the cat closer to her. Thank you for finding my little =Mu, 00036 111 she said. Hungry, hungry kitty. I'll get you some warm milk. They 00037 111 went into the house. A girl was there. =Johnny was surprised. 00038 111 He thought Mrs =Ling lived alone. This is my granddaughter, said 00039 111 Mrs =Ling. My name is =Laurie, said the girl. 00040 111 Suddenly =Kate began to grin from ear to ear. That's it, =Jordy, 00041 111 she cried! That's the birdbath I'm going to make. It looks almost 00042 111 exactly like the one =Grandmother has. =Jordy shook his head. 00043 111 Forget it, =Kate, he broke in. It's a garbage can top sitting on 00044 111 a big piece of pipe. We don't have a pipe. So, he went on, let's 00045 111 just forget it and go home. We may not have a pipe yet, =Kate 00046 111 bounced back. But we'll have one soon. Come on. Together they left 00047 111 the library. They went running down the street. Where are we going, 00048 111 =Jordy wanted to know? You'll see, =Kate shouted. Soon they were 00049 111 back beside the silver gate they had stopped at before. As they ran 00050 111 up to it, a whistle began blowing. It was time for the workers to 00051 111 have lunch. 00052 111 It all started at the picnic. I went on the picnic with some people 00053 111 I'd met that very same day. At the end of the picnic, we all got 00054 111 back into the car. Then, for no reason at all, someone threw me out 00055 111 of the car. Just like that, they threw me out! Never in my life 00056 111 had anyone been so mean. I was left on a country road all by myself. 00057 111 I felt terrible, really terrible. If I hadn't been so angry, I might 00058 111 have cried. Well, I sat on that country road for a long while. I 00059 111 thought about my life. I wondered what would become of me. Soon a 00060 111 big wind blew and blew. It blew me clear across the road. 00061 111 Mrs =Mayberry held her head. Smoke! What smoke, she demanded? 00062 111 The smoke from the oven when the cake poured out of the pan, 00063 111 =Elizabeth went on. Mrs =Mayberry waves her arms excitedly. Why were 00064 111 you making a cake, she asked? For the school bake sale, =Alan said. 00065 111 But I made one this morning, Mrs =Mayberry shouted. We know, said 00066 111 =Steven. We were making a new one. The cake you made fell on the 00067 111 floor when the police bumped into the table. Police! What police, 00068 111 Mrs =Mayberry cried. The police that were chasing the robber, =Alan 00069 111 told her. My Robber, Mrs =Mayberry gasped excitedly? I mean the 00070 111 robber I saw at the market? 00071 111 The kids and =Loretta delivered copies of the newspaper all over 00072 111 town. They even delivered some copies to grumpy =Louie, who promised 00073 111 to give them out at his newstand. =Jenna felt very proud of the work 00074 111 she and her friends had done. Her parents were feeling proud too. 00075 111 They invited everybody over for a big happy newspaper party. All 00076 111 through the party, =Jwnna's telephone kept ringing. Friends from 00077 111 school were calling. They all had seen copies of =Jenna's newspaper. 00078 111 And every one of them wanted to write stories for it. =Jenna smiled 00079 111 as she answered each call. This had been the best day of her life. 00080 111 She thought about the =CityNews and about Ms =Martinez. 00081 111 =Mama watched him closely for a long minute. Is anything wrong, 00082 111 =Mathew, she finally asked? =Mathew shook his head. It's really 00083 111 nothing, he said. Well, where have you been all day, his mother 00084 111 wanted to know? At the library, =Mathew said softly. It's closing 00085 111 tomorrow. =Mama stopping stirring. So that's it, she said to 00086 111 herself. I never realized today was the day. She stirred the pot of 00087 111 stew a little more. Then she turned to =Mathew. The fact that the 00088 111 library is closing isn't the end of the world, she said. They're 00089 111 building a brand-new library on the avenue, and it will be opening 00090 111 very soon. =Mathew was very quiet. 00091 111 Another popular form of running is jogging. Jogging means running 00092 111 at a comfortable steady pace. How fast you jog is really up to you. 00093 111 In jogging the only person you're competing with is yourself. 00094 111 Competing with yourself means improving a little bit each time 00095 111 you go out and jog. For example, you may jog fifteen minutes each 00096 111 day for one week. The next week you may go out and jog seventeen 00097 111 minutes each day. This means you have improved your jogging time 00098 111 by two minutes. Other joggers may run longer and faster than you. 00099 111 But that's not important. When you jog the main idea is to improve 00100 111 yourself. 00000 000 SCOTT FORESMAN READER GRADE 2--1ST LEVEL 5 SCOT21.TXT 00000 000 SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY, GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS 00000 000 RAINBOW SHOWER (no author on cover) 1981 00000 000 TRANSCRIBED BY DPH MAR 1983 Stratified SRS pages: 8-5; 39-1; 00000 000 66-5; 92-3; 126-7; 149-4; 186-3; 204-8; 225-4; 236-2. 00001 111 =Frog was in his garden. =Toad came walking by. What a fine garden 00002 111 you have =Frog, he said. Yes, said =Frog. It is very nice, but it 00003 111 was hard work. I wish I had a garden, said =Toad. Here are some 00004 111 flower seed. Plant them in the ground, said =Frog, and soon you 00005 111 will a garden. How soon, asked =Frog? Very soon, said =Frog. 00006 111 =Toad ran home. He planted the flower seeds. Now seeds, said =Toad, 00007 111 start growing. =Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds 00008 111 did not start to grow. =Toad put his head close to the ground and 00009 111 cried, Now seeds, start growing! 00010 111 There's a fire a few houses down, she called. =Gwendolyn looked 00011 111 up from her writing just long enough to see many people rushing 00012 111 to see the fire. But she did not move. =Gwendolyn did not want to 00013 111 see the fire. She wanted to write a poem. =Gwendolyn wrote 00014 111 another line. Her mind was far away from the fire. She was alone, 00015 111 but she was happy. She was happy because she was writing a poem. 00016 111 =Gwendolyn was seven when she wrote her first poem. She lived in 00017 111 =HydePark, Illinois, with her mother, father and brother. 00018 111 Everybody in her family was very proud of her. But her mother helped 00019 111 her the most. 00020 111 What can I do, =Theodore says. My cousin is at the end of the 00021 111 forest, and here I am in the middle of the forest. And I have a bad 00022 111 leg, and I can't walk. I know what I'll do, =Theodore says. I'll ask 00023 111 my friends for advice. That's what friends are for. Along comes 00024 111 =Theodore's friend, the bird. Why are your sitting here in the 00025 111 middle of the forest, asks the bird? I have a problem, says 00026 111 =Theodore. I have a bad leg, and I can't walk. And I can't meet my 00027 111 cousin at the end of the forest. If I had a bad leg, I would fly 00028 111 to the end of the forest, says the bird to =Theodore. It's nice 00029 111 of you to give advice, says =Theodore to the bird. 00030 111 The race! All the sudden =Lydia remembered =Andy. She ran up the 00031 111 road. =Andy was at the top of the hill, alone. The race was over. 00032 111 Dr =Arnold was handing the prize dog to a very happy girl. The 00033 111 other children were cheering. =Andy looked at =Lydia. His eyes 00034 111 were big and cold. =Lydia hugged him and he pulled away. Then he 00035 111 turned and ran. Wait, =Andy, cried =Lydia. I'm so sorry. I really 00036 111 mean it. I was fixing the car but I didn't have enough time to 00037 111 finish. But =Andy didn't stop. He didn't look back. =Lydia waited 00038 111 until he turned the corner. Then she walked back to Dr =Arnold's 00039 111 house. She sat on the ground and put her head in her hands. She had 00040 111 never felt this bad before. Now she knew how =Andy felt. 00041 111 =Linda smiled again. Not a bad invention, said =Diane. =Linda kept 00042 111 right on smiling. No one said anything for a long time. They were 00043 111 looking at the sidewalk. Then =Luis leaned back and said, You know, 00044 111 it's nice. Yes, =Linda said. It's very nice. 00045 111 Three soldiers walked down the road in a strange country. They 00046 111 were tired, and they were hungry. In fact, they had eaten nothing 00047 111 for two days. How I would like a good dinner tonight, said the 00048 111 first. And a bed to sleep in, said the second. But all that is 00049 111 impossible, said the third. We must march on. On they marched. 00050 111 Suddenly they saw the lights of a town. 00051 111 I climbed back on my bike again and began to ride. I rode past the 00052 111 creek and past the library. As I rode, I looked up. And there was 00053 111 =Ellen. Right smack on top of the library flagpole. Boy was I glad 00054 111 to see her! Don't worry, I cried. Help is on the way. I ran into 00055 111 the library. Mrs =Lojohn, I shouted. My sister's been flying all 00056 111 over town and now she's stuck on the flagpole. We ran out of the 00057 111 library. Mrs =Lojohn looked up to the top of the flagpole. I looked 00058 111 up too. =Ellen wasn't there. There was nothing to say. I just 00059 111 turned away, climbed on my bike, and rode away. 00060 111 There was a strange mark on the sidewalk. =Hmmmm, =Jonathan said to 00061 111 himself. A bicycle mark! It seems someone has been riding a bicycle 00062 111 through wet grass and has left a mark on the sidewalk. So! The 00063 111 mysterious shadow rides a bicycle! =Jonathan went upstairs and got 00064 111 his magnifying glass. Then he went outside again. He looked at the 00065 111 mark for a long time. =Hmmm, he said at last. It seems one tire 00066 111 has a patch on it. At school the next day =Jonathan told his friend 00067 111 about the mysterious shadow. This is what I know so far, he said. 00068 111 First, the shadow makes round noseprints. And second, the shadow 00069 111 rides a bicycle with a patch on one tire. It's probably a cat or 00070 111 something, his friend said as he ran off to play ball. 00071 111 Tomorrow is another day, said my mother. On Wednesday I didn't want 00072 111 to go to school. I cried and said I had the mumps. I cried and said 00073 111 I'd run a way. My mother said, Get on the bus. At school we drew 00074 111 pictures. The teacher held the best pictures up in front of the 00075 111 class. My pictures wasn't one of them. We played =Captain-May-I 00076 111 I wasn't the Captain. But when we played baseball, I made it to 00077 111 second base. That night my mother said, How was school? Give it 00078 111 time, I said. Maybe I should talk to the teacher tomorrow, she 00079 111 said. I'm not a baby, I said. On Thursday we made airplanes and 00080 111 the teacher hung mine up. Just mine. I wore my octopus dress and 00081 111 someone said, Is that a snake? 00082 111 At knowing things the old crow is still the young crow's master. 00083 111 What does the slow old crow not know? How to go faster. The young 00084 111 crow flies above, below and rings around the old crow. What does the 00085 111 fast crow not know? Where to go. 00086 111 Have you ever seen a plant walk? Of course not. Plants don't 00087 111 walk. They stay in one place. But that doesn't mean that plants 00088 111 don't move. They do move. Flowers open and close. Some close in the 00089 111 rain. They open again when the rain stops. Many flowers close up 00090 111 at night and open in the morning. Others open and close at 00091 111 different times. 00092 111 I have something, said =Duck. Today I cleaned my house. I did not 00093 111 bake. I have something, said =Bear. He reached into his pocket 00094 111 and took out two little honey cakes. =Bear, cried =Duck, you are 00095 111 spilling crumbs on my floor. He grabbed another piece of paper and 00096 111 put it under =Bear's chair. =Duck, =Bear said, you are a very good 00097 111 housekeeper, but what good is a clean house if you have nothing 00098 111 to eat? Taste one of my honey cakes. =Bear and =Duck each ate a 00099 111 honey cake. They spent the rest of the afternoon doing a puzzle. 00100 111 The next day, =Duck went to see =Bear. What smell's so good, asked 00101 111 =Duck? 00000 000 SCOTT, FORESMAN READERS GRADE 2--2ND READER LEVEL 6 SCOT22.TXT 00000 000 SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS 00000 000 CRYSTAL KINGDOM (no author on cover) 00000 000 TRANSCRIBED BY DPH MAR 1983 STRATIFIED SRS pages: 10-0; 54-0; 00000 000 92-5; 120-0; 137-4; 179-8; 204-5; 239-7; 253-6; 190-0. 00001 111 One sunday, =Benjamin was watching his father fix a leak in a pipe 00002 111 in their basement. It was just a small leak. But still, it was 00003 111 taking =Benjamin's father a long while. As =Benjamin waited, he 00004 111 used his wonderful imagination. He imagined a funny old camel. The 00005 111 camel had glasses sitting on the end of his nose. My camel says 00006 111 you're turning that pipe the wrong way, said =Benjamin. Your father 00007 111 knows what's do, his father started to say. But a great gush of 00008 111 water stopped him. The water rushed out of the pipe. It was awful! 00009 111 It splashed all over =Father. It splashed all over =Benjamin. 00010 111 What you will need: =3 pieces of heavy, coated construction paper. 00011 111 The three pieces should be different sizes. Each should be rolled 00012 111 into a tube and taped together. Roll the threee small pieces of clay 00013 111 so that they will fit into the tubes. Put one piece of clay into 00014 111 each tube. If you fit it in right, the clay should close off one 00015 111 end of the tube. Place the tubes side by side. Look at the size of 00016 111 each piece. Put the shortest tube on one end. Put the longest piece 00017 111 on the other end. Put a piece of clay in between each piece of 00018 111 tube. Tape the three pieces of tube together. When you are finished, 00019 111 your panpipes should look like this. Now you are ready to play your 00020 111 panpipes. 00021 111 =Jean looked at the eggs in the incubators every day. Just before 00022 111 an egg is ready to open, =Jean takes it out of the incubator. She 00023 111 puts it in another box called the brooder. The brooder also keeps 00024 111 the eggs warm, But the brooder is a better place for the baby bird 00025 111 to be born. In a brooder the bird will have room to walk around. 00026 111 Did you know that in the brooder birds talk to each other even 00027 111 before they're born? I didn't, until =Jean told me about it. She 00028 111 explained that in the brooder two eggs are placed very close 00029 111 together. Soon a bird in one egg will begin to chirp. The bird in 00030 111 the other egg hears this sound. Then it begins to chirp too. 00031 111 There was an old well here long ago, she said. Now it is empty. I 00032 111 put boards over it. But the boards must have worn away. So that's 00033 111 how =Mu fell in, said =Johnny. That's how she fell in, said Mrs 00034 111 =Ling. I will fix it so nothing will ever fall in again. Mrs =Ling 00035 111 held the cat closer to her. Thank you for finding my little =Mu, 00036 111 she said. Hungry, hungry kitty. I'll get you some warm milk. They 00037 111 went into the house. A girl was there. =Johnny was surprised. 00038 111 He thought Mrs =Ling lived alone. This is my granddaughter, said 00039 111 Mrs =Ling. My name is =Laurie, said the girl. 00040 111 Suddenly =Kate began to grin from ear to ear. That's it, =Jordy, 00041 111 she cried! That's the birdbath I'm going to make. It looks almost 00042 111 exactly like the one =Grandmother has. =Jordy shook his head. 00043 111 Forget it, =Kate, he broke in. It's a garbage can top sitting on 00044 111 a big piece of pipe. We don't have a pipe. So, he went on, let's 00045 111 just forget it and go home. We may not have a pipe yet, =Kate 00046 111 bounced back. But we'll have one soon. Come on. Together they left 00047 111 the library. They went running down the street. Where are we going, 00048 111 =Jordy wanted to know? You'll see, =Kate shouted. Soon they were 00049 111 back beside the silver gate they had stopped at before. As they ran 00050 111 up to it, a whistle began blowing. It was time for the workers to 00051 111 have lunch. 00052 111 It all started at the picnic. I went on the picnic with some people 00053 111 I'd met that very same day. At the end of the picnic, we all got 00054 111 back into the car. Then, for no reason at all, someone threw me out 00055 111 of the car. Just like that, they threw me out! Never in my life 00056 111 had anyone been so mean. I was left on a country road all by myself. 00057 111 I felt terrible, really terrible. If I hadn't been so angry, I might 00058 111 have cried. Well, I sat on that country road for a long while. I 00059 111 thought about my life. I wondered what would become of me. Soon a 00060 111 big wind blew and blew. It blew me clear across the road. 00061 111 Mrs =Mayberry held her head. Smoke! What smoke, she demanded? 00062 111 The smoke from the oven when the cake poured out of the pan, 00063 111 =Elizabeth went on. Mrs =Mayberry waves her arms excitedly. Why were 00064 111 you making a cake, she asked? For the school bake sale, =Alan said. 00065 111 But I made one this morning, Mrs =Mayberry shouted. We know, said 00066 111 =Steven. We were making a new one. The cake you made fell on the 00067 111 floor when the police bumped into the table. Police! What police, 00068 111 Mrs =Mayberry cried. The police that were chasing the robber, =Alan 00069 111 told her. My Robber, Mrs =Mayberry gasped excitedly? I mean the 00070 111 robber I saw at the market? 00071 111 The kids and =Loretta delivered copies of the newspaper all over 00072 111 town. They even delivered some copies to grumpy =Louie, who promised 00073 111 to give them out at his newstand. =Jenna felt very proud of the work 00074 111 she and her friends had done. Her parents were feeling proud too. 00075 111 They invited everybody over for a big happy newspaper party. All 00076 111 through the party, =Jwnna's telephone kept ringing. Friends from 00077 111 school were calling. They all had seen copies of =Jenna's newspaper. 00078 111 And every one of them wanted to write stories for it. =Jenna smiled 00079 111 as she answered each call. This had been the best day of her life. 00080 111 She thought about the =CityNews and about Ms =Martinez. 00081 111 =Mama watched him closely for a long minute. Is anything wrong, 00082 111 =Mathew, she finally asked? =Mathew shook his head. It's really 00083 111 nothing, he said. Well, where have you been all day, his mother 00084 111 wanted to know? At the library, =Mathew said softly. It's closing 00085 111 tomorrow. =Mama stopping stirring. So that's it, she said to 00086 111 herself. I never realized today was the day. She stirred the pot of 00087 111 stew a little more. Then she turned to =Mathew. The fact that the 00088 111 library is closing isn't the end of the world, she said. They're 00089 111 building a brand-new library on the avenue, and it will be opening 00090 111 very soon. =Mathew was very quiet. 00091 111 Another popular form of running is jogging. Jogging means running 00092 111 at a comfortable steady pace. How fast you jog is really up to you. 00093 111 In jogging the only person you're competing with is yourself. 00094 111 Competing with yourself means improving a little bit each time 00095 111 you go out and jog. For example, you may jog fifteen minutes each 00096 111 day for one week. The next week you may go out and jog seventeen 00097 111 minutes each day. This means you have improved your jogging time 00098 111 by two minutes. Other joggers may run longer and faster than you. 00099 111 But that's not important. When you jog the main idea is to improve 00100 111 yourself. &&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN (1985) 2ND GRADE SF19852N.ASC SING AND DANCE (2-1) AND WHISTLES AND DREAMS 2-2 (LEVELS 5 & 6) Richard L. Allington et al Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan, edit by DPH 12-22-92 INVOKED THE 5X/1000 RULE with 'roadrunner' &&111 =Jill said, My tame, little pet has an old sock. I gave it the sock. It nibbles on the sock during the day. Then it makes the sock into a soft bed. My pet sleeps on the sock. During the time I sleep, it plays. When I get up at seven, it goes to sleep on the sock. =Tish said, I brought my tame bird. At my house, I try to get it to stand on my hand. It is easy for my bird to walk inch by inch along my hand. One hot day, =Goat went to the lake to drink. The water was cold as it went down =Goat's throat. While =Goat was drinking, =Frog jumped out of the water. =Frog called, Go away, =Goat! You are drinking my whole lake! I was already here. Don't drink while I am here. A trumpet A trumpet =Lewis has a trumpet A bright one that's yellow A loud proud horn He blows it in the evening When the moon is newly rising He blows it when it's raining In the cold and misty morn It honks and it whistles It roars like a lion It rumbles like a lion With a wheezy huffing hum His parents say it's awful Oh really simply awful But =Lewis says he loves it It's such a handsome trumpet And when he's through with trumpets He's going to buy a drum. We can look into an apple. See what it looks like. It is white. It has a circle of seeds in it. We can take the seeds out of the circle. We can plant them. Do you know what will grow? We can make pretty pictures with apple seeds. We take the seeds from a cup. Then we paste them in little circles. The circles of seeds make a shape. We have some wonderful seeds! said =Millie. =Grandpa said, Let's put them into glass jars. The jars are on that shelf. =Millie went to get the jars from the kitchen shelf. She said, We will have a shelf of glass jars like the farmers have. =Grandpa worked and said, Yes. We will have jars of seeds on the kitchen shelf all winter. =Millie put the glass jars of seeds back on the kitchen shelf. She said, This is wonderful. Now all the seeds are in jars. Are you happy when you learn something new? It's fun to add new things to what you already know. People working together can sometimes learn how to make a good thing even better. At least they can try! =Mother said, I am sure you can think where =Joe might be. You must try hard! =Hank felt angry and unhappy, but he sat down to think. Then he knew! =Hank ran until he came to the place where the tallest building in the city was going up. There was =Joe. He was watching the builders working far above the ground. One day =Penny read that people had been fixing swamp land so they could build homes there. People were taking out water and putting in dry dirt to build on. =Penny was afraid the animals would not have enough room to live if people took the swamp land. =Penny said to =Alan, I don't want snakes or alligators to be hurt or in danger. That is what will happen if people build homes in swamps. What can we do to help save the animals? asked =Alan. Some desert animals don't care about the heat. Roadrunners don't. Instead of hiding from the sun, roadrunners run during the dry, hot day. When a roadrunner stops running, it goes to its home under a low cactus. =Roadrunners run more than they fly. They run fast to catch mice and snakes for food. =Roadrunners also run fast to get away from animals that like =roadrunners for food. =Mindy =Mouse lived behind a set of plant pots on top of a tall building. The building was in a city that had many hills. So =Mindy had a view of these hills from her building. =Mindy said the view was the best in the city. But she had no one to enjoy it with her. Day after day =Mindy said, Who's going to come up and enjoy the best view in the city with me? Who's going to be my neighbor? =Yoshi did not like moving to a new street. On her old street a cat next door had just surprised her by having kittens. =Yoshi was going to get one of the kittens, but she moved. Now she did not have a kitten. =Yoshi saw a note as she skated down the street. The note was tacked to a tree so people would see it. =Yoshi read the note. &&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN (1987) 2ND GRADE SF19872N.ASC UNDER THE MOON (2-1); & WHAT DO I SEE (2-2) (lEVELS 5, 6) By Richard L. Allington et al Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan edit by DPH January 14, 1993 &&111 As the days went by, the ugly duckling grew sad. Nobody would play with him. Everyone made fun of him. All the animals called him the ugly duckling. When the farmer fed the animals, the ugly duckling was always the last to eat. I am so ugly, I don't have any friends, the ugly duckling said. I am going to fly away. It won't matter if I leave, since I am always so alone. The ugly duckling left the farm and didn't say good-by. He lived alone as the days grew colder. He sometimes felt afraid, sometimes hungry, but he always felt alone. So it went. All through that cold winter night, the sweet birds sang for =Little =Feather. When the sun got up from its bed the next morning, =Little =Feather left hers, too. I am well! said the happy girl. Now I must thank my friends, for it was their singing that made me better! When =Little =Feather looked outside, what did she see? One small gray bird, hopping in the snow. It was the mockingbird. Of all the birds, only she had answered =Little =Feather's cry. as told by =Mary =Hynes-Berry Look at the clouds, said =Sailor =Sam to a new sailor named =Dan. See how the wind is blowing? I wonder if a storm is coming. It might be a =Stormalong =Day. What is a =Stormalong =Day? asked =Dan. A =Stormalong =Day is the kind of cold, wet day =Stormalong likes, said =Sam. You must not know about =Stormalong the =Sailor. Well, get ready to listen to my story. On =Saturday =Gina and =Grandpa were up before the sun. After breakfast =Grandpa got their bikes ready. At last he put on his cap and said, Let's go chase that balloon. On the way to the park =Gina saw cars with bicycles on the front. She saw cars with bicycles on the back. She saw cars with bicycles on the top, but she did not see a balloon. In the park =Gina saw all different kinds of bicycles, but she did not see a balloon. She saw a woman with a bird. The woman was standing by the back of a van. One day =Abigail said in surprise: My fingers are almost The same as my eyes. Fingers are always Bringing me news Toes never know Because of shoes. They tell me what Is hot and cold, And what is too heavy For me to hold. They tell me what Is soft and hard And help me write A postal card. They know the rough Of brick and log And that the softest thing Is fog. At one time, the sun and water were very good friends. For many years, they lived on the earth together. Many times the sun would go to visit the water. But the water would not visit the sun. Hi. My name is =Peggy. I'm seven and a half years old. I can do almost anything by myself. Most of the time I'm brave too. At least I think I am. I'm not afraid of storms in the night. If I hear sharp, loud noises in the dark, I don't feel I'm in danger. I just curl up in bed and don't let the noises scare me. Sometimes I let =Joy, my cat, curl up in bed with me. The loud, sharp noises may frighten =Joy, but at least when she is curled up with me, she's not afraid. =John the =Lively coughed two or three times to clear his throat. Then, in a loud voice he said these words to the crowd: I have decided that the porter who ate his bread with the smoke of the goose has fully paid the cook with the sound of his money. This decision by =John the =Lively seemed so grand and clever to the people. They thought a more clever decision could not have been made by the best judge in the world. Cats are afraid of elephants. Elephants are afraid of mice. Of what are mice afraid? Are you afraid of anything? People can be afraid of things. People can be afraid of the dark. People can be afraid of big animals. Read about what some people and animals are afraid of and what they do about being afraid. A very long time ago there lived an old donkey who had helped a miller for many years. When the donkey had become too old to carry large sacks of grain on his back, the man didn't want to keep him any longer. Afraid of what might happen, the donkey took to the open road while he still had the use of his four legs. As he walked, he decided that since he had such a beautiful bray, he would travel to =Bremen-town and join a band of musicians there. For the next week, =Adam sulked. He had his tea and ate his acorns by himself. He was disappointed and missed =David. But =David was no longer his friend. Then, early one morning =Adam heard a bump and then a knock at his door. Hello, said a beaver. I am looking for work. Do you have any work for me? Yes, I do, said =Adam. Come in. He told how =David had taken his acorns. I want you to build a tall fence all around my yard. And I want you to put a lock on the trunk where I keep my acorns. Can you do that? &&000 HOLT, RINEHART & WINSTON (1983) 2ND GRADE WIN9832N.ASC LEVEL 9 PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE by Bernard J. Weiss, et al LEVEL 10 THE WAY OF THE WORLD by Bernard J. Weiss, et al Source: SUNY Cortland xeroxed, scanned and edited by DPH 12-15-92 &&111 One time when =Wolfgang was playing for the king, the king said, =Your playing is very beautiful with two hands. But what can you play with one hand? So =Wolfgang put one hand behind his back. He showed the king how well he could play with one hand. Then the king said, You play well when you see what you are doing. But what can you do with your eyes covered? So =Wolfgang's eyes were covered, and still he played beautiful music. When =Wolfgang was alone with his father, he told him that he didn't like doing tricks for the king. =Wolfgang said that he loved music too much to play tricks with it. The potter called to a man, Take this horse to the king. Thank him for letting me ride it. And tell him that I'll see him in the morning. In the morning the potter went to see the king. He set out on foot. Two men saw him. One man said, Look at him. All by himself he made the enemy run. Yet he goes to the king on foot. Yes, said the other man. He could go on that beautiful horse. But he doesn't want to show how brave a man he is. Look at the waterfall now! =Tammy cried. There's a rainbow! I want to get a picture of that. =Tammy ran up the trail. She came to a place where she could take the picture. She sat down on the side of the trail. Then she slid part way down the mountain. Her feet came to rest on a big rock. From there she took the picture. =Tammy, come back here, =Daddy called. Just one more picture, =Tammy said. I want to get the rainbow again. I told him what it was worth. He asked me to save it for him. That's why I took off the tag. Mr =Konivi didn't know. So he let you have it. Now we need it back. =Lou collects rocks. I gave the jade to him for his birthday, =Betty said. I can't ask for it back. Mr =Burt looked more and more upset. I have a rock that is just as beautiful. It's right here. You can have it if you give me the jade. =Why don't you give that one to the man? asked =Betty. I can't, Mr =Burt said. One time when I sat near the manhole, I heard a noise. I thought, =Oh, oh! The scary thing has prisoners trapped down there. That night I put lots of bread near the manhole. This time I said, Give some of this bread to your prisoners. I didn't know if it would give the prisoners the bread. So I thought I'd stay there. If I heard a cry from the prisoners, I'd take my baseball bat. I'd hit the monster right on the manhole cover. That would teach it. =Mary =Ann and her friends wanted people to come and see =Dandy. The only bad thing was there was a lot of noise around the school now from cars and trains and airplanes. Then =Mary =Ann saw that =Dandy was not happy. She saw that he covered his head and shook. More and more people came. Now =Dandy covered his head and shook all the time. =Mary =Ann was worried. What can be wrong with =Dandy? she thought. =Mary =Ann called a famous scientist. His name was Dr Street =George. He said he would come right over. Mary =Ann was not worried now. Dr Street =George would find out what was wrong with =Dandy. The next game was to see who could paint the best picture. The giant worked for a long time on his picture, but he didn't win. Someone from the town of =Stillwater did. The giant said to the man next to him, =You know, I really thought I would win that one. I want to win something this afternoon. Then there was a game to see who could sing the best. The giant made a lot of noise, but he didn't win. Everyone said a woman from =Stillwater was the best. The giant said to anyone around, Who are these people from =Stillwater? I've never heard of them. At =8'15 =Maxie's door opened. =Maxie walked down five sets of stairs. She walked down to get her newspaper. She would try to hold the door open with one foot. Then she would reach out to get the newspaper. Every morning =Maxie would reach just a little too far. Her foot would not hold the door. The door always closed. And =Maxie couldn't get back in. So at =8'20 =Maxie always had to ring for =Walter to let her in. =Walter knew it was =Maxie. He would open the door. =Maxie would come in with her newspaper. Life was good for =Wet =Albert and his family. But not for the people in the little town! Because of the drought, not a thing would grow. How could anything grow without rain? There was very little for the people and animals to eat. And there wouldn't be anything to eat all that winter if there was no rain to help things grow. =Freddy ran to the pond and let the frog jump out of his hand and into the pond. Then =Freddy saw the frog jump up onto a big white flower in the middle of the pond. It looked very green, sitting there on the white flower. Just then =Freddy's mother came over to the pond. Look, =Mother, said =Freddy. My frog likes its new home. Isn't it beautiful? =Yes, =Freddy, =Mother said. It is. And =Freddy's frog said, =Amy opened the barn door. The wild goose was right behind it. She had been trying to get out. When the goose saw =Amy, she stretched out her long neck and started to gabble. Amy got down on her knees. She put her arms around the big bird. She began to cry. She held the bird close to her. She wished the goose would stay. Then she picked up the wild bird and slowly carried her into the night. They stood together for a few minutes. Then the goose set up a cry. She began to run and beat her wings. Soon the summer was over. So was our visit. My brother had to go to school. So we had to go home. We planned to go, but we stayed a few more days. We stayed for =Mother's birthday. My aunt and uncle did not want her to be home on that day. They did not want her to be lonely. The day before =Mother's birthday news came about the hurricane. A hurricane is a storm. It is a horrible storm. There are great winds. The winds move faster than the fastest cars. The winds shake down houses. They tear trees from the land. They push the ocean into big waves. Winds and water crash along together. When they heard about the storm, people filled bags with sand. They put the bags around each house. The sandbags would help each house stand up in the storm. By night everyone felt safe. So my aunt made a cake. She made a birthday cake for =Mother. During the morning of the next day, there was great weather. Then it turned to hurricane weather. It was exciting at first. Then rain beat down hard. Winds crashed here and there. And the house started to shake. Now there was trouble. Could the house stand in this weather? Was it safe here? Soon they were at =Granny's. They saw =Trev, =Granny's puppy, in his doghouse. Down the hill from =Granny's house was a pond. Can we go wading? asked =Sarah. Sure, said =Granny. We can look for frogs, too, said =Julie. =-Sarah and =Julie spent the afternoon by the pond. They found small frogs and put them into boxes. They walked around the pond. They look,ed for big frogs. Sometimes the frogs floated out into the pond. Only their eyes showed above the water. =Trev liked to hunt frogs, too. His tail wagged every time he was near one. But most of the time, the frog jumped away just as he reached for it. It's =Pete's first race, she thought. Anything could happen. But I'm just being silly, she told herself. =Pete's big and fast. He's been far away from home before. And he's always come back. =Jenny was very worried. She did not want the race to begin. Then she looked at the clock. I can't do anything now, she thought. =Jenny took the stairs to the roof two at a time. She pulled open the door and ran out. Then she sat down on the roof. =Jenny tried to picture what =Pete was doing. Soon someone would open his cage. =Pete would fly out into the bright sky. At ten =Jenny heard the telephone ring. Then her mother climbed up to the roof to tell her that =Pete had been set free. He had started the race. He had started the long trip home. If it weren't for =Mother, it would never have happened. You see, =Mother collects stuff, and she keeps the stuff around the house. One day =Mother came home with an old chest. It'll be a great place to store winter clothes, she told =Father. And look what's in it. What is it? asked =Father. He doesn't like old stuff the way =Mother does. It's an old patchwork quilt, =Mother said. Isn't it beautiful? It'll be nice to have. It's nice, =Father said. But what are you going to do with it? It'll come in handy, =Mother said. That's what she always says when she doesn't know what to do with some old thing. She folded the quilt. Then she put the folded quilt into the chest. The first mate came right away. He saluted and stood at attention. Please keep watch here, =Jane said to the first mate. I wish to look my ship over. I think I'll start with the engine room. =Jane went to the engine room. Everyone saluted her and stood at attention as she went by. From the engine room, she went to the main deck. She stopped to talk to the children. She gave them all black jelly beans. Captain, said one of the children, may I take your picture? Well, said =Jane, I haven't the time right now. Please! said the boy. I'd like to have a picture of the captain of an ocean liner. The boy was just about to take the picture, when a voice came over the loudspeaker. Captain! You are needed on the top deck! As you can see, I know a lot about dolphins. I find that it helps me in school. If the teacher wants to know what I did last summer, I can tell her about the times my mother let me swim and play with her dolphins. Or, if we have to write something, I can always write: =Dolphins in the sea I wish they'd talk to me . The only thing is that about the middle of last year, my teacher told me she wanted to hear about something other than dolphins. But this is the start of a new school year, and I have a new teacher who doesn't know anything about dolphins. If you have the war first, you might not have anyone at your party. Good thinking, =William, said King =Sam. So we'll have the party first and then the war! King =Oscar waved from the other side of the battlefield. King =Sam waved back. We'll fight this afternoon, =Oscar. I must get back to my grandmother, said =Mary =Jo. Did you ever ride on a snowplow? the man asked. =Mary =Jo shook her head. Here, climb up, the driver said. We'll clear the side road and get you back to your grandmother's house. Then we'll go on to the next house and call your father. It's a good thing you were on the corner, the driver went on. We weren't going to clear this side road today. We only clear out the main road the first day after a big snow like this. =Pipsa was a little girl who lived with her family in a small village. =Pipsa had five brothers. Four of them were older than =Pipsa. But one was still small. =Pipsa's father was proud of his sons. He was proud of how well the four older ones could swim. He didn't notice how well =Pipsa took care of her small brother. Her father was proud of how well his four older sons fished. He didn't notice all the berries =Pipsa picked. =Pipsa's father was proud that his four older sons could hunt. They came home with lots of birds and rabbits. He didn't notice the straw bags that =Pipsa made. He didn't notice how =Pipsa helped her mother make clothes. =Pipsa's father showed his sons how to do things. He was proud of his sons. And he told them so. But he never told =Pipsa how proud he was of her. &&000 WINSTON (hOLT RINEHART &) (1986) 2ND GRADE WIN9862N.ASC PEOPLE NEED PEOPLE (LEVEL 2-1) by Bernard J. Weiss et al THE WAY OF THE WORLD by Bernard J. Weiss, etal Holt Basic Reading Program: Levels 9 and 10 Source: SUNY Oneonta: xerox , scan by DPH March 3, 1993 &&111 It is morning. The sun is in the sky. It shines on the houses of the =Indian tribe. The sun shines on the mother, =Flower =Wolf. It shines on the father, =Hunt =Wolf It shines on the grandfather, =Wise =Wolf And the sun shines on the boy, =Little =Wolf. Another day has come. =Flower =Wolf will work at home. =Hunt =Wolf will hunt in the forest. =Wise =Wolf will sit by the fire. =Little =Wolf will go into the forest. But =Little =Wolf will not hunt. This will not please =Hunt =Wolf =Little =Wolf will not hunt like other boys. He is not a hunter. He finds animals that cannot run. He finds birds that cannot fly. =Little =Wolf takes them home. He makes them well again. Today =Hunt =Wolf wants =Little =Wolf to hunt. "Today you will please me," says =Hunt =Wolf. "Today you will hunt." =Little =Wolf only looks at his father. "You are brave," says =Hunt =Wolf to his son. "But what good is it to be brave? You will not kill the bear!" =Lisa laughed. Then her father laughed, too. "Your time is up, Miss =Stone," he said. "It's too bad you can't answer the question." "Wait," cried =Lisa. "Wait! The answer is, a frog sandwich!" "Right," her father said. He laughed. "A frog sandwich. You win. A very shy kitten is here for you. And a very happy birthday is here, too. Come and get them. Can you come down now?" =Lisa put down the telephone. She climbed down the big tree. "A frog sandwich," laughed her father. "Really, =Lisa." He gave =Lisa the brown and white kitten. =Lisa looked shyly at the children. She walked over to them. She wanted to show them her kitten. The party was not horrible. It was the best party =Lisa ever had. And she had ten new friends and a kitten. "How will we get her up," =Terry asked? "There's no telling how long that rock she's on will stay in place." "Get the rope from my pack," =Daddy said. Then he looked down at =Tammy. "It's all right, =Tammy. We'll get you. Hold on. I'm going to throw a rope down. We'll pull you up. Here it comes, =Tammy," said =Daddy. The rope fell down the mountain, about a foot away from =Tammy. "I see it," =Tammy called. She got the rope and turned away from the mountain. "What are you doing," =Daddy cried?. "I want to take that picture," =Tammy said. "Look out, =Tammy," =Daddy called! "The rock is moving!" Just as the rock slid, =Tammy took the picture. The big rock went faster and faster. Down the mountain it went. Soon they couldn't see it. But =Tammy was holding onto the rope. The policeman looked at =Betty. "I think you're right," he said. "I went to the store this morning to talk to Mr =Konivi. The police have been looking for some stolen jade. We've looked all over for it. Mr =Konivi has rocks in his store. We thought he might know something about it." "Did Mr =Konivi know anything about it," asked =Betty? "No," said the policeman. "But he did tell me about the missing tag. We looked at the bills for the rocks. There was no bill for the jade. We knew then that Mr =Burt was up to something." "Mr =Burt really wants that jade," said =Betty. "I think he'll come back for it. He may try tonight." "He just might," said the policeman. "And maybe we can trap him." "One way," said =Betty, "would be to put the jade back up in the treehouse. Mr =Burt will want to look there for it." "It's worth trying," the policeman said. "As soon as it gets dark, I'll come back with my men. I'll hide in your treehouse. And my men will hide nearby. If Mr =Burt comes for the jade, we will trap him." That night the =Rubins stayed indoors. They waited. Mr =Konivi came to sit with them. The TV was on, but =Betty was not looking at it. She would have liked to be outdoors. She wanted to know what was going on. She wanted to see if the trap would work. Soon the afternoon was over and the giant didn't win anything at all. The people from =Stillwater were the ones to win everything. That night the giant was sitting alone in his castle. He was feeling very mean. "I've got to find out where this town of =Stillwater is," he said. He went to his books and looked it up. "Here it is," he said. "Stillwater is near a big river. It doesn't look very far from here." "I'm going to do something to the people of =Stillwater," said the giant. "I've got to think of something really mean." The giant walked from room to room, trying to come up with an idea. Then the giant laughed a mean laugh. "I've got it," he said! "I'll take a big bag of dirt to =Stillwater. I'll dump the dirt into the river that's near the town. The water will come up and cover all the people and all the town. What a good idea!" It was lucky that there was one cloud in the sky that summer. And that cloud was =Wet =Albert's! "Let's get =Wet =Albert to help us," said the farmers. "If he comes to our farms, he will bring rain." =Wet =Albert was happy to help the farmers. He went to all the farms. And wherever he went, the rain from his cloud made the farms green. Things began to grow again. Then =Albert went to all the rivers, and his rain cloud put water back into them. Thanks to =Wet =Albert there was a harvest that fall. And a good harvest, too! The farmers took some of it to =Wet =Albert and his family. People around the world heard the news of =Wet =Albert. Wherever there was a drought, people would say, "Get =Wet =Albert!" But how could he get to places around the world? One man had a good idea. "Get the boy a helicopter," he said. "Then he can bring rain to everyone." So =Wet =Albert got a helicopter of his own. He went all over the world bringing rain wherever there was a drought. &&000 The way of the World &&111 Soon the summer was over. So was our visit. My brother had to go to school. So we had to go home. We planned to go, but we stayed a few more days. We stayed for =Mother's birthday. My aunt and uncle did not want her to be home on that day. They did not want her to be lonely. The day before =Mother's birthday news came about the hurricane. A hurricane is a storm. It is a horrible storm. There are great winds. The winds move faster than the fastest cars. The winds shake down houses. They tear trees from the land. They push the ocean into big waves. Winds and water crash along together. When they heard about the storm, people filled bags with sand. They put the bags around each house. The sandbags would help each house stand up in the storm. By night everyone felt safe. So my aunt made a cake. She made a birthday cake for =Mother. During the morning of the next day, there was great weather. Then it turned to hurricane weather. It was exciting at first. Then rain beat down hard. Winds crashed here and there. And the,house started to shake. Now there was trouble. Could the house stand in this weather? Was it safe here? =Jenny was not so sure. "What if =Pete missed our roof and landed on a different one, Or what if he ran into something and was too badly hurt to fly all the way home," she thought?. =Jenny knew that it was too late for =Pete to win the race. But she didn't care about that now. She just wanted him back. "I don't think I'll have any lunch," she told her mother. And she turned back to watch the sky. When she saw no sign of =Pete, she looked down at the street below. =Ben =Blue =Whale is alone. Each day he swims a long way looking for another blue whale. He looks in all parts of the oceans. There he sees other kinds of whales. But he never sees a blue whale like himself. =Ben has been looking for blue whales since his mother left him. He was small then. Still he remembers that day. =Ben and his mother had heard the noise of a boat. But before they could swim away, there had been another loud noise. It had been made by men on the boat. The men had killed =Ben's mother. =Ben did not understand what had happened. He didn't know what men or boats were. All he knew was that his mother had left him. =Butch went home with his mother and father. They did not say a thing to him. When they got home, Mr =Martin went for a walk. Mrs =Martin went into the house. =Butch stayed outside. He began to feel sorry for himself. =Butch tried not to cry. Just then a man came by. He asked =Butch, "Is your father at home?" "He went for a walk," said =Butch. "What's the matter?" asked the man. "Everything," said =Butch. He told about the times he had tried to help his father. He told how his help was never any good. "And tonight," he said, "no one heard my father's speech. No one knows the plans he has for the city. No one will vote for him. He won't be elected mayor. And all because I tried to help." One night =Pipsa was working in her garden. Her little. brother was with her. All at once =Pipsa saw a snake. She quickly put down her hoe. Then she looked for her brother. He didn't see the snake. =Pipsa had to keep the snake away from her brother. She picked up the hoe. Then she walked quietly to the snake. =Pipsa had never seen a snake that big. But she knew she must kill it before it killed her brother. =Pipsa had never been so afraid. What if she missed? What if she only made the snake mad?