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1、www.readinga-C Is for Canada C Is for CanadaA Reading AZ Level T Leveled BookWord Count:1,357Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Written by Amy Weber Illustrated by Cende HillLEVELED BOOK TWritten by Amy WeberIllustrated by Cende HillC Is for Canada C Is for CanadaLevel T Levele
2、d Book Learning AZWritten by Amy WeberIllustrated by Cende HillAll rights reserved.www.readinga-Photo Credits:Back cover,title page,pages 3,7,13,19,15,16:Jupiterimages Corporation;page 11:James Boardman/Dwww.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL TP3838Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRA34Table of ContentsSubject
3、:Greetings from Canada .4Subject:My questions .6Subject:My family .7Subject:Lacrosse?.10Subject:Family heritage,family vacation .11Subject:Caribou or Moose?.16Subject:Come visit!.17Glossary .20Subject:Greetings from CanadaHey Stephanie,It was so exciting to get your email yesterday!Ive been looking
4、forward to having a pen pal for some time now.Im so glad your teacher in Omaha(thats in Nebraska,right?)contacted mine here in Vancouver(thats in British Columbia).Do you know where that is?C Is for Canada Level T56British Columbia is one of the 10 provinces in Canada(there are three territories,too
5、).We dont have states like the United States.Anyway,in your last email,you said that you are doing a report on Canada.Is this the kind of information that youre looking for?If not,could you be more specific?I hope I can help.Your Canadian pen pal,JacquelineSubject:My questionsHi Jacqueline,Good to h
6、ear from you.Here,let me list some of the topics that my teacher wants covered in the report so that you have a better idea of what information I am looking for:people,economics,government,history,culture,religion,and physical geography.Hope thats not too much.So,whats your family like?My dad sells
7、animal feed and my mom is a waitress at the truck stop outside of town.Do you have any brothers or sisters?I dont.Thanks so much for doing this,and I cant wait to tell you about Omaha and the United States for your report next month.Your friend,StephanieNorthwest TerritoriesYukonTerritoryNunavutLabr
8、adorNewfoundlandOntarioQuebecNewBrunswickNovaScotiaPrinceEdwardIslandBritish ColumbiaAlbertaSaskatchewanManitobaGreenlandUnited StatesAlaskaCanadian provincesC Is for Canada Level T78Subject:My familyHey Stephanie,Wow,that is a lot of information to cover!How about this:Ill start by talking about my
9、 family(that will at least cover your“people”section)and then maybe that will help answer some of the other sections.Okay?My dad is a fisherman in English Bay.He leaves before I wake up for school because he says he has to get to the Bay before the fish wake up!Vancouver has the largest port in Nort
10、h America,as far as exports go.It also rarely freezes,so my dad works year-round.Fish are a major resource here.My dad says Canada exports about 80 percent of its fish.Other resources are iron ore,nickel,zinc,copper,gold,silver,coal,and oil.I found that information online at Statistics Canada(you ma
11、y want to check it out).My mom drives my brother and me to school every day.Shes a French teacher(both English and French are the official languages here)at my brothers school.Hes in 12th grade,so next year he will go to college.Some of my classmates take the bus or the train to get to school,and a
12、few ride their bikes.School starts at 8:30 and ends at 3:00.C Is for Canada Level T910 Im in 4th grade,like you,and my most favorite class is social studies.Right now were studying the Canadian government,lucky for you!Let me give you some facts about the government from my notebook.Canada is a demo
13、cracy,a government run by the people,just like the United States.We have our own constitution and our own bill of rights.The United States is a republic,but Canada is a constitutional monarchy in which the king or queen of England is our chief of state.The prime minister leads Parliament(no presiden
14、t here).Canadas Parliament is made up of two houses,the Senate with 105 members and the House of Commons with 308 members.Hope that helps a little.I have to go(my mom is calling me because its time for lacrosse practice).Ill try to answer the rest of your questions when I get back.Talk to you soon,J
15、acquelineSubject:Lacrosse?Hi Jacqueline,Thanks so much.Whats lacrosse?Is it like soccer?Thats what I play.My mom was wondering where your grandparents are from.My grandparents are from Germany.What do you do for fun?Every summer,my family goes to Florida and relaxes on the beach.Do you take any fami
16、ly vacations?Canada sounds so cool.Hope practice was fun.Your friend,StephanieFloridaVancouverBritish ColumbiaTorontoOttawaOmahaNebraskaMiamiC Is for Canada Level T1112Subject:Family heritage,family vacationHi Stephanie,Practice was tough,Im pretty tired,but I think Im even more hungry.My mom is ups
17、tairs cooking dinnerwere having caribou.She learned how to make it from my grandpa who was Inuit.Looks like Im starting to answer your family heritage questions.Before I do that,I should tell you that,yes,I do play soccer but only in gym class,and its not as fun as lacrosse.Lacrosse is kind of like
18、soccer,but we use sticks with baskets on the end to pass the ball to another player or hopefully into a goal thats much smaller than a soccer goal.Okay,back to my family.My dads ancestors are from England.He can trace them as far back as the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897!My mothers father was Inuit,lik
19、e I said,but her mother was of French descent and thats why she knows French so well.To answer your religion question,most Canadians are Roman Catholic.Many others are Protestant,like us,or another Christian religion.Only a small number of people are Muslim,Jewish,Buddhist,or Hindu.Two Englishmen pa
20、n for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush.C Is for Canada Level T1314Yes,we take family vacations.This past summer we went to Mount Logan in the Yukons Kluane National Park.The mountain rises to 5,959 meters(19,551 feet to you),which makes it the highest point in Canada.I was hoping that we would tra
21、vel all the way around the country,all 9,984,670 square kilometers(or 3,854,045 square miles),but my mom and dad said that was too far.Did you know that Canada is the second largest country in the world?Canada has eight land regions:the Canadian Shield,the Hudson Bay Lowlands,the Western Cordillera,
22、the Interior Lowlands,the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowlands,the Appalachians,the Arctic Lowlands,and the Innuitians.Since we headed straight north from Vancouver,we stayed in the Western Cordillera land region.The scenery in this region is amazing.There are so many mountains(I hope this is helping wi
23、th your“physical geography”section).Western Cordillera Canadian Shield InnuitianInterior Lowlands Hudson Bay Lowlands AppalachianArctic Lowlands Great LakesC Is for Canada Level T1516The two regions I really want to see sometime in my life are the Canadian Shield and the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowl
24、ands.The Canadian Shield is the largest land region in Canadait covers about half of the country!There are plains,mountains,and many ancient rocks there.The Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Lowlands is mostly rolling lowlands.This is where Niagara Falls and Canadas main river,the St.Lawrence Seaway,are locat
25、ed.This area is often called Canadas heartland because it is a center for agricultural production and industry(isnt that kind of like Omaha?).Dinners ready,so I have to run(it smells great).As soon as Im done,Ill finish answering the rest of your questions.Here I come,caribou stew!JacquelineSubject:
26、Caribou or Moose?Hi Jacqueline,I had no idea Canada was so big,and Ive never heard of caribou.Online,they look like moose.Is that true?We have lots of deer here.Sometimes my friends and I see them in our backyards.What are your friends like?Talk with you soon.Your friend,StephanieCaribouMooseC Is fo
27、r Canada Level T1718Subject:Come visit!Hi Stephanie,Many of my friends are on the lacrosse team,but my best friend Li is not.Hes from China.Did you know that a lot of people immigrate to Canada from Asian countries?Each year when school starts,I look around my classroom and see more kids who are Asi
28、an.I worked on an immigration graph with Li in Math class last year that showed the number of people who came to Canada in 2003.I am sending you a copy of the graph we made(my mom helped me scan it to the computer).If you cant open it,please let me know.You know what?I just looked at your original l
29、ist of things your teacher wanted for this report,and I think we talked about all of them,except for history.Ill go bug my dad for that(hes a big history buff).Here,he just scanned me a timeline from one of his history books.Ill attach it,too.9,000 b.c.Artifacts show that native Canadians are living
30、 in the present-day Ontario area.a.d.986 The first European,a Viking named Bjarni Herjolfsson,sees the Labrador coastline.1608 Samuel de Champlain(“Father of New France”)founds Quebec City,which is the first permanent French settlement in Canada.1610 Henry Hudson explores Hudson Bay.1702 The French
31、and British battle in Queen Annes War.1818 The CanadaU.S.border is established at the 49th parallel.1841 An Act of Union brings together Upper and Lower Canada,creating the Province of Canada.1867 Sir John A.Macdonald is the first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada.1897 The gold rush begins in
32、 the Yukon.1931 Great Britain gives Canada full authority over legislative matters.1965 Canada issues a new flag.1989 The CanadaU.S.Free Trade Agreement starts.1999 The Inuit Territory of Nunavut is created.Pakistan12,330India24,560PeoplesRepublicof China36,116Sri Lanka4,442Philippines11,978S.Korea7
33、,086United States5,990Iran5,648Romania5,465United Kingdom5,194C Is for Canada Level T1920Hope I helped you with your report.Maybe this next summer,you could persuade your family to come visit Canada instead of Florida.You could visit Ottawa(the national capital)or Toronto(the largest city),but lets
34、face it,Vancouver is the prettiest place to be in the summer.Youd love it.Cant wait to hear about Omaha and the United States next month.Take care.Your friend,JacquelineGlossaryancestors people from whom one descends(p.12)caribou a type of large reindeer that lives in very cold places(p.15)constitut
35、ion basic laws of a state or nation that tell how the goverment is run(p.9)constitutional a government in which a parliament monarchy oversees the power of a king or queen (p.9)democracy a government in which the people vote for other people to represent them(p.9)heritage something that is passed do
36、wn from generation to generation(p.11)Inuit a member of a group of native peoples living near the Arctic,such as northern Canada,Greenland,or Alaska(p.11)Parliament a group of government officials who can make and change a nations laws(p.9)provinces lands divided up by a country(p.5)republic a nation led by a president and governed by elected representatives(p.9)territories lands controlled or owned by another country(p.5)C Is for Canada Level T