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1、Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.WritingAster gives her brother a bag of seeds to thank him.Why?What is she thanking him for?Write an essay explaining your answer,using details from the story as support.ScienceResearch the conditions a sunflower needs to grow,including the be
2、st time of year for planting and when seeds are harvested.Create a poster that shows how to grow and care for sunflowers.ConnectionsSeeds and SunflowersA Reading AZ Level R Leveled BookWord Count:1,109www.readinga-LEVELED BOOK RWritten by Karen MocklerIllustrated by Nicholas Jackson$eeds and$unflowe
3、r$eeds and$unflower$SeriesMoneybags Mike Book 3www.readinga-$eeds and$unflower$eeds and$unflower$Whose experience with the sunflowers was more valuable,Mikes or Asters?Why?Focus QuestionWritten by Karen MocklerIllustrated by Nicholas JacksonCorrelationLEVEL RN3030Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRASe
4、eds and SunflowersLevel R Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Karen MocklerIllustrated by Nicholas JacksonAll rights reserved.www.readinga-accruechronicledconsumerinvestmentlicenseorganicretailspeculativelyventureWords to KnowPhoto Credit:Page 13:Noraluca013/iStock/Thinkstock3“Ive got another idea,”M
5、ike announced.He was sitting at the kitchen table,cracking the shells of sunflower seeds between his molars,spitting them out,then eating the seeds.“Another idea for making money?”asked Mr.McCarthy.Mike nodded and pulled another seed out of his bag.Seeds and Sunflowers Level R4Since the end of secon
6、d grade,Mike had been trying to pull together sufficient funds to buy a Super Spy kit.A retail kit was seventy-five dollars,but Mikes friend Derek had offered to sell his kit to Mike for twenty-five dollarswhat a bargain!So far,Mike hadnt managed to get together even that amount,but he was not a qui
7、tter.He held up his favorite snack and narrowed his eyes speculatively.What if he grew his own giant sunflowers and harvested the seeds?He could save his allowance dollars and sell the extra seeds at the farmers market!Then he might accrue enough to buy a Super Spy kit.“Ill cut out the middleman,”he
8、 explained to his family,“because Ill be the farmer and the salesman.”“Youd have to sell an awful lot of seeds to clear twenty-five dollars,”Mrs.McCarthy said.5“Not if I go organic,”Mike said.Organic crops didnt come cheapMike had learned that the hard way with his lemonade stand.If he grew organic
9、seeds,he could charge an arm and a leg for them.Organic farmers had stuck it to him with their pricey organic sugar and lemons.Now it was his turn to stick it to the consumer!“You probably need a license to sell at the farmers market,”Mr.McCarthy said.“Ill look into it,”Mike said.He was not the kind
10、 of guy to be intimidated by a little legal mumbo jumbo.“Gardening takes patience,”said his little sister,Aster.“I can be patient,”Mike said.After lunch,Mike carried his bag of sunflower seeds out to the backyard.Under the blazing summer sun,Mike could feel himself baking like a potato.He gravitated
11、 toward a shady patch of dirt in one corner of the yard,sat down in it,and started digging.Seeds and Sunflowers Level R6Soon Aster popped her head out of her bedroom window.“You dont want to plant there,”she called.“Why not?”shouted Mike.“Too shady,”she called.“Its too sunny in the sun!”Mike shouted
12、.Aster smiled.“Theyre sunflowers,Mike,”she said.Her head disappeared back inside.Mike sighed and relocated his garden.7After a week of watering,Mike scratched his head.“Do you think I shouldve removed the shells first?”he asked his mom.“I dont think so,”Mrs.McCarthy said.“Just out of curiosity,where
13、 did you get your seeds?”“You got them for me,”Mike said,“at the grocery store.”Mrs.McCarthys eyes widened.“I bought them for you?When did I buy you seeds?”“A couple weeks ago,”he said.“Wait,”she said.“Was this a packet of gardening seeds or a bag of snacks?”Mike shrugged.“Both,”he said.“Mike,”she s
14、aid,“your snacks are roasted and salted.Is that what you planted?”“Right,”Mike said.“Roasted,salted,and organic!”Seeds and Sunflowers Level R8“Yes,”his mom said,“but not alive.”“Seeds are alive?”Mike asked.“Gardening seeds are alive,”she said.“The seeds you eat arent.”“What are you saying?”demanded
15、Mike.“My snacks are dead?”“In a manner of speaking,”said Mrs.McCarthy.Mike groaned.9That afternoon,Mrs.McCarthy took her son to buy live,organic seeds at the hardware store.He planted them after dinner as huge clouds massed in the western sky.Later that night,a July thunderstorm swept through and so
16、aked Mikes garden patch.Within a matter of days,neat green lines of sprouts sprung up.Seeds and Sunflowers Level R10Mike was thrilled at firstit was happening!but plants were so still,so quiet,and he just had to keep watering them.It was hard to stay interested.One day he found Aster in his patch,pu
17、lling weeds.“How do you know which are the good plants and which are the bad ones?”Mike asked.“Theyre all good plants,”Aster said,“but the sunflowers are the ones reaching for the sky.”He also noticed her out there sometimes with their dads camera.A good photographer explored different angles and pe
18、rspectives,but Aster always stood in exactly the same spot,taking exactly the same photo.Mike laughed and shook his head.Crazy kid.By August,the plants were seven feet tall.When they bloomed,Aster snapped another photo.11“Look how their faces follow the sun,”she said.By September,those faces had fil
19、led with seeds.Mike rubbed his hands.“Almost there,”he said.The next time Mike glanced out the window,though,he spied a little brown bird perched on the stem of one of his flowers.Mike watched in horror as the bird reached up and stole a seed.Another bird landed,then another,all eating his crop.It w
20、as a sparrow conspiracy!Mike ran outside,shouting.The startled birds lifted off and flew away.A little laugh issued from above.Mike looked up to find his sister swinging her legs from a maple branch.Seeds and Sunflowers Level R12“What are you doing?”Mike asked.“Watching,”Aster said.Mike told his fri
21、end Derek about the birds.“Theyre eating my investment!”Mike complained.“Sic Pickles on them,”Derek advised.Pickles was Mikes cat.“Bye-bye,birdies.”13“Aw,theyre just birds,”Mike mumbled.He wasnt really thinking about the birds,though.He was thinking about Aster,up in the tree,watching the birds.3+5+
22、2=10+8+102=14 x 2 3=255 5+2=17+3x22027=3+5+2=10 4+102=8 x 2+6=2 219=31+2 x 2=8 x 2=1 615=3+9x2 8=3+5+2=10+8+102=14 x 23=25 55+2=17+3 x22027=3+5+2=10 4+102=8 x 2+6=2 219=31+2 x 2=8 x 2=1 615=3+9x2 8=Math MinuteIn some situations,knowing the exact count of something is unimportant,impossible,or both!Y
23、et a general numberan estimatemay be helpful.In those cases,estimation is a good math skill to use.A single sunflower can easily produce more than 1,000 seeds.You probably couldnt count them all,nor would you want to,but you can make an estimated guess.Start by trying to count how many seeds are in
24、a section of the headsay,one-tenth of the whole.Then multiply that number by ten.You should come pretty close to the heads actual number of seeds.If you estimate that one-tenth of this head contains 40 seeds,how many seeds does the head have in total?Answer:400Seeds and Sunflowers Level R14Mike cons
25、tructed a scarecrow instead,but the birds ignored it.The squirrels used the scarecrows hat to launch themselves onto the flowers.By the time the seeds were ripe enough to harvest,there were only a handful leftanother money-making venture down the tubes.On the first day of autumn,Mike woke to a bag o
26、f sunflower seeds on his pillowthe roasted,salted kind.He carried them to the kitchen,where Asters photos were spread across the table.The photos chronicled the sunflowers from start to finish,along with the birds and the squirrels and the scarecrow.Shed even snapped a couple of the farmer.Mike stud
27、ied the photos and watched the sunflowers rise before his eyes.Maybe,he thought,she knew what she was doing after all.“Thanks for the seeds,”he said to his mom.“What seeds?”she asked.Mike lifted the bag and shook it.15“Those didnt come from me,”said Mrs.McCarthy.She plated up some scrambled eggs and
28、 handed them to Mike.Aster smiled at her brother.“They came from me,”she said.“You bought them?”Mike asked.“Why?”Aster looked back at her photos and everything captured there.“Thats why,”she said.Seeds and Sunflowers Level R16Glossary accrue(v.)to increase or build up over time(p.4)chronicled(v.)pre
29、sented a detailed record of events in the order that they happened(p.14)consumer(n.)a person who buys or rents goods or services and uses them(p.5)investment(n.)property bought to make a profit(p.12)license(n.)a legal document that gives official permission to do,own,or use something(p.5)organic(adj
30、.)grown and produced without chemicals or artificial products(p.5)retail(adj.)of or relating to stores or businesses that sell things directly to customers(p.4)speculatively(adv.)in a way that shows one is thinking about what might happen or about ideas that are not proven(p.4)venture(n.)a risky project or undertaking(p.14)