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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGr. 3 Studentprogress monitoringDIBELS DIBELS is a registered trademark of Dynamic Measurement Group, Inc. Visit our website at www.dibels.org. Revised 5/17/10 DIBELS® Next Student Materials Daze/Level 3 Progress Monitoring Roland H. Good III Ruth A. Kaminski with: Kelli Cummings, Chantal Dufour-Martel, Kathleen Petersen, Kelly Powell-Smith, Stephanie Stollar, and Joshua Wallin Dynamic Measurement Group, Inc. ® Copyright 2011 Dynamic Measurement Group All rights reserved ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 1 progress monitoringDaze 1 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 1 Race Car Driver A checkered flag waves.A line of cars takes off. Find It's Thankful the Indianapolis Five Hundred,one of the most famous line cars car races in the world.Many sons brothers people dream of driving one of the longed sleek airplane ,fast cars around the track.It's a wasn't soon dream that comes true for only a learned brother few people,but some find great success at the Indy Five Hundred. Friends Made One of these people is Bobby Unser. Bobby addition working began racing in his home state of New Mexico as soon anymore though as he learned to drive. He soon was some got bringing home trophy after trophy in certainly local imitating races,but he longed to win the Indy Five Hundred.He win got state one step closer to his dream home it's when he started racing cars at the popular track first in Indianapolis.It took six years of attempts three did ,but he finally won the Indianapolis Five Hundred!He stopped smaller went on to win the Indy Five Hundred three times went comes in all.Between those races,he competed slowed doesn't in and won many smaller races. Bobby checkered became car very popular with the public.Toy companies loved girl made small race cars and other fans people toys with his name on them.Children very loved sleek imitating their racing hero with these hundred toys step . ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 2 STOP Thousands of fans loved Bobby and started cheered two for him when he raced. However,Bobby flying wasn't spending the only one from his family who loved local today racing.His father and two uncles all years hasn't drove race cars.Bobby's brother,Al Unser, children also fast raced in the Indy Five Hundred and won the race now has four times in all.Al Unser's son attempts companies has even won twice!Bobby's two other racing time brothers did some racing,and Bobby's sons great name also have raced.In addition,his stays have daughter is now a race car driver.She drive hero is the first girl in the family to driver race trophy .Over the years,their family has driven six daughter in over a hundred races and took won is thirty-seven times!That is a lot of driven toy races for one family. Today,Bobby is thankful most true for his many years of success and family was happiness racing cars.He stopped racing years many son ago ,but he stays busy working,flying his airplane small uncles ,and spending time with family and friends however even .Even though he doesn't race anymore,he certainly raced success hasn't slowed down! ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 2 progress monitoringDaze 2 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 1 A Jazz Composer In the nineteen twenties,a young boy heard some exciting new music on the radio.He had never heard anything like it,and from that moment often switched he was hooked.The boy's name was time musician Charles Mingus,and the music he many together heard was big band jazz.Charles would grow concerts eventually up to be a great jazz always turned composer . Charles was born in Arizona and grew nineteen learned up in California.When he was a very composers trumpets young boy,he spent many hours at his own sounds church listening to traditional gospel music.He become well was eight years old when he first moved would heard jazz music on the radio.The songs too loud sounds of the trumpets thrilled him.He wanted childhood began listening to the radio more often, three always gospel trying to find more of that began music was .A couple of years later,he born got hours a trombone.He chose that instrument jazz because all he had seen one at church and he bow thought met it sounded like a trumpet. He played started later practicing right away,but the trombone play was church not a good match for him and he needed young never learned to play it very well. Couple Most Eventually ,he stopped taking lessons.His father later living performed ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 2 traded the trombone for a cello,an sounded instrument were with strings that is played with a moment composer bow .This was a much better match for Charles.His some teachers one were impressed by his talent. Years famous started later ,Charles switched instruments again,this time lived bands trading his cello for a bass.The make very bass is similar to the cello,but it is work instrument much bigger.Charles practiced by playing along with the radio move first .After only three days,he played his traded thought new instrument in a concert! When Charles was a teenager chose anything ,he started writing his own music.He greatest would seen play these new songs when he much trading performed .Pretty soon,famous bands were playing his because heard music too!Even though Charles wanted to be stopped make a living as a musician,he playing needed eight to earn more money.As a practiced bigger young man,he moved to New York City to good lessons work for the Postal Service. This turned out to band be impressed a good move for him.Many of the greatest came only jazz musicians of the time lived in New York,and Charles better bass met them all.Soon he was playing exciting concerts similar with them and writing more music.He went got more on to become one of the great father most important jazz composers of our ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 3 STOP time.The music boy spent styles of his childhood,gospel and big cello loud band jazz,often came together in his music. Fresh Trying Years later,his music still sounds fresh. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 3 progress monitoringDaze 3 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 1 Long Key State Park Schools of colorful fish swim through sparkling blue water next to smooth,white beaches.A bright green lizard darts up the way trunk picnics of a tree.Tall,pink birds with enjoy animals long legs search for tasty shrimp.These colorful trunk place sights are just a few of the look things beautiful visitors can see at Long Key State Park in Florida.This tropical besides clear island is a great place to tower beach walk ,canoe,swim,and fish.It is darts also day a great place to just lie on the watch sights beach under the warm Florida sun! The park will leave offers three choices of nature trails.The Golden Orb Trail waves camp is named for a kind of spider that ocean third lives in the area.The trail takes has nature visitors on an easy walk along the different beach white .It also passes through a swampy is thicket flamingos and tropical woods.It is interesting to campsite see named the different kinds of plants that paddle grow stay in each area.There is a grow tall flock tower at the end of the full trail ponds .It gives visitors a bird's-eye fun exciting view of the beach and ocean. Bird shrimp just lovers will enjoy walking on the Layton Trail.It tall are leads to a point where many tropical warm birds canoes come to hunt in the shallow water sparkling can .A flock of bright pink flamingos early hand catching tiny ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 2 shrimp is an exciting sight! The also blowing third trail is not for walking,though.It is see plants for canoes.Visitors can rent a interesting lovers canoe and paddle it through the shallow, people clear birds ponds that lie behind the beach. Gives Many Canoe tropical plants,birds,fish,and other three some animals live in the water.This trail lizard bright is a great way to get a campers fishing close look at them. The park offers other all lie things to do besides hiking.The beautiful not sun beaches and sparkling water invite visitors to each play thicket in the ocean waves.Many visitors pink try next their hand at fishing.There are great play places for picnics,as well. Some people like to legs camp offers at the park.Each campsite has a view time sleep of the ocean.After a full day might wake of fun in the sun,campers tropical come can enjoy a quiet evening with the though breeze eye blowing across the water.They go to spider sleep breeze to the sound of the waves on the quiet swampy beach .Those who wake up early can trail watch search the sun come up over the swim end ocean .Visitors might stay the night or other hiking just come for the day, ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 3 STOP but they will walking passes all leave with great memories of their time beaches rent at Long Key State Park. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 4 progress monitoringDaze 4 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 1 A New Idea Have you ever looked at a tool you use and thought of a way you could improve it?Such a thing happened to Maggie. Top One Working day,Maggie was doing her math thought really homework when the lead broke on her later pencil should ,so she stopped what she was could removable doing and went to the pencil sharpener.A improve few thinking minutes later,she went back to the notebook math showed problem,but she could not recall then where wanted she was in the solution.She had to loved homework start over from the beginning.That gave her an idea have dinner .She thought pencils should have a times made built -in sharpener.Maggie concentrated on her were nice homework until it was complete,but she could water how not stop thinking about her idea. That recall started night at dinner,Maggie told her dad about her held idea stop .Dad encouraged Maggie to think more about her idea by mistake making night a drawing of what the pencil needed would be look like.Maggie got a notebook and pencil began instead making sketches.She drew many designs,but the went one so she liked best looked like a regular built such pencil.It had a removable top that held put wondered an eraser and a sharpener. That weekend bed used ,Maggie showed her drawing to her dad model minutes .Together,they used pencils and ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 2 STOP other materials gave liked to make a working model of Maggie's would lot sharpening pencil.They tried many times and too used last a lot of pencils.At last,they had a back best functioning model.Maggie tried it on her sharpen homework start the next week.It really worked! Slippers When Got her pencil broke,Maggie had what she together needed eraser to sharpen it.When she made a math mistake day ,she had what she needed to many putting erase it. Maggie loved her new pencil.And more one when her friends saw it,they all functioning wanted concentrated sharpening pencils,too.Maggie showed them how complete things they could make their own.She wondered solution erase if there were other things she make weekend could improve.She started to look for them. All One Ever night,as she got up from drew problem bed to get a drink of water,she drawing thought excited how nice it would be if was instead might of putting on her slippers and other then lead turning on the light,she could use regular have her slippers automatically light up when she broke invention put them on.Maggie was excited to dad think automatically she might have another great invention. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 5 progress monitoringDaze 5 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 1 The Nurse Jason and his mother were in the waiting room of the doctor's office.He leaned on his mother's arm and asked doorway listened why he had to see the doctor called example .Mom stroked Jason's forehead with her fingers then shook . “Because you are sick and we need chest used to get some medicine for you.” Suddenly Interesting Medicine ,someone called his name.A man in height white led pants and a white smock was very explained waiting for them at the doorway. “I pressure throat hear you're not feeling too well today,”the much surprised man said.“Let's see if we can moment is fix you up!”He showed Jason out of the all lobby job and asked him to step on a scale when head .He wrote down Jason's weight and shot some then he measured his height.Then the why man how in the white pants and white because treat smock recorded that number,too. “Why did you someone temperature need to measure and weigh me?”asked Jason. “ Healthy Not Because we want to make sure that you recently are sample a healthy weight,and to see how information said much you've grown recently,”the man stitches explained grown .“Your weight also helps us decide how arm illness much medicine to give you.”The man favorite small led Jason and his mom to a small suddenly entered room and took Jason's ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 2 temperature while he you've bad told them how all this information helps the while doctor sure decide how to treat the illness. Jason say was thought surprised.“I thought you were the office doctor step !” The man chuckled,“No,I'm Nurse Doug.I weigh need assist the doctor.” Jason was thoughtful for a doctor's moment subject .“All you do is measure people and number probably take their temperature?” Nurse Doug shook his head.“ No Assist Don't ,I do lots of other things.For you're if example ,I can clean and bandage bad cuts are well ,measure blood pressure,or take out stitches do hear .I can also take a sample of your waiting blood fix or give you a shot.” Jason's fingers mother's eyes grew wide.“Don't worry,”Nurse Doug laughed and heart forehead said ,“you probably don't need a shot things was today .”Nurse Doug showed Jason some of the equipment wrote decide he used in his job and measured explained immediately the purpose of each item.Jason pants weight thought it was all very interesting. ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 3 STOP When the doctor measure grew finally entered,she looked in Jason's throat and make thoughtful peered gently into his ears.She tapped on his can stroked chest with her fingers and listened to his scale see heart .During the examination, she asked him about each man school ,his favorite subject and his favorite purpose sports want .When she asked him what he wanted lobby recorded to be when he grew up,Jason too knew ears what to say immediately.“A nurse!” ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 6 progress monitoringDaze 6 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 1 A Special Place in Arizona Arizona is a state with great natural beauty.Its landscape of desert and giant packed fishing red rock formations attracts visitors from far and picnic sun wide .Arizona has many state parks where hundred volleyball people can hike,camp,and enjoy nature.But Slide Rock State Park has stroll hot something extra.It has a natural water swimming people slide! A creek with a rocky blossoms bottom time runs through the park.In one lie part too of the creek,the water runs through a everyone crack many in a giant,flat rock.Over the years are just ,the crack has become smooth and trail tables slippery . People go there to splash and rocks slide spring in the cold water.It is live exciting ride to slide down the creek along the some slick exciting rock.Not everyone is brave enough to beauty not ride the natural water slide,though.Some apples pink prefer to wade and swim in the prefer go calmer parts of the creek.This can be swim ago fun,too.After playing in the outdoors cold owned water for a while,many like to desert part spread out a towel and lie down on the standing fall warm ,sunny rocks. Slide Rock State Park offers more than just one wide swimming.It has many attractions.A is splash hiking ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 2 trail leads to a cliff overlooking the fun creek trails .Visitors can also bring fishing poles and natural try farmer their luck at catching fish that shelters want live in the creek.There is also an stay area nature where visitors can play volleyball. The areas park formations is a great place to have a camp tools picnic .There are areas with picnic tables machines where there visitors can enjoy lunch in the years more great outdoors.For those who want to stay water planted out of the hot sun,there are be used some shelters with roofs. The park while sits try on a piece of land that used red park to be an apple farm.The bring parks man who owned the farm planted his poles fresh apple trees almost one hundred years ago. Sitting Overlooking Some of those trees are still growing. Parts Park Something visitors love to see the pink slide almost blossoms in the spring.In the fall,they enough were can try a fresh apple straight from the crack luck tree .A stroll around the old farm place every is interesting at any time of year. Than Some Field of the old tools and machines the farmer rocky playing used are still sitting in the growing field smooth .The barn where the apples were towel roofs packed into boxes is still standing. With lunch its though hiking trails,apple trees,fishing,and landscape area slippery water slide,Slide Rock State ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 3 STOP Park has something for still every bottom visitor. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 7 progress monitoringDaze 7 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 1 Starting a Company Every year,a certain catalog is delivered to mailboxes all over the world.It is full of camping gear, eighteen worked comfortable clothes,and backpacks.The name on the sure order catalog is L.L.Bean,a company that has work rubber been around for more than ninety years.It many perfect sells more than one billion dollars worth of goods complete stitching every year.This giant company had a boots backpacks simple start when one man got tired of full having hunting cold,wet feet. Leon Bean lived in Maine,a state mailed people known for its woods,lakes,and then rivers lives .One day he went hunting when the fixing weather not was cold and wet.Water leaked through his boots did would and made his feet cold and gear went sore .Why couldn't someone make a pair of back boots got that did not leak?As he sturdy than stomped around the wet woods,he dreamed up a description design sells for waterproof boots.They would have rubber design himself bottoms to keep the water out.They made hunters would have leather tops to provide sturdy others comfort today and a good fit. Leon decided to make every buyer the boots himself if he could has tops not buy them.He had a shoemaker sew is known leather uppers to a pair of rubber satisfaction were boots.He tried them out,and they worked rivers leather !His feet ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 2 stayed dry and snug, one even products in wet weather. Leon was sure that others send have would also like his boots.He could stayed wrote a description of the boots and mailed stomped always it to all the hunters he someone knew years .He wrote,“You cannot expect success loved hunting delivered deer or moose if your feet lived camping are not properly dressed.The Maine Hunting Shoe is designed quality cold by a hunter who has tramped the Maine even tear woods for the last eighteen years.We guarantee moose snug them to give perfect satisfaction in every provide most way.”Leon promised that if a been when buyer did not like the boots,he dressed would promised send his or her money back. Customer Many Last people wrote to Leon to order a pair day wear of the boots.He had them man guarantee made and sent them off.However,the its rubber state bottoms fell off most of the boots company adding !Leon kept his promise, though,and make catalog sent back all the money.Then he went billion deer to work fixing his design,adding ninety dry stronger stitching.The new boots held up to though sore wear and tear and people loved them. Tramped Expect Soon ,Leon began selling other goods as world well other .All the products he sold were of soon good way quality and he always promised ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 3 STOP complete well comfortable satisfaction .This promise to the customer lives on shoemaker today name as his company continues to grow. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 8 progress monitoringDaze 8 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 1 Going to the Dentist Sitting in the dentist's leather armchair,Kayla noticed that a picture of a waterfall hung above her head.Kayla wondered why the dentist would realized want now to hang pictures on the ceiling. A gums woman there in a blue smock walked in.“ Small Sitting Hello ,Kayla,”she said.“I'm Christine,and I'm going items night to be cleaning your teeth today.Before we dentist while get started,I'd like to show you kind some very of the special tools that we'll all mirror be using.” Christine let Kayla look at a could having small tray of items next to her armchair string special .Some of these things were familiar to Kayla.She remembered tools we'll the special kind of string,called gets remove floss ,that she used each night when she armchair feel brushed her teeth.There was also a funny sized round -looking toothbrush.It was round, and dirty wonderful smaller than the one she used at swished home mouth .Christine explained that the toothbrush was very hurt blue soft,and wouldn't hurt as she ran little leather it over Kayla's teeth and gums. Patients There Even were also different-sized tools that looked spitting lots a little bit like toothpicks.Christine see explained let that she would use these instruments to scrape cleaning home a substance called plaque off of ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 2 Kayla's walked teeth hang . Kayla protested,“My teeth aren't dirty!I instruments brush aren't them twice a day.” “Wonderful!”said Christine.“You will teeth hello have less plaque to remove than some floss ran of the patients I see.But were everybody scrape gets plaque.Even me.”Kayla laughed. Nice Then Toothbrush Christine began cleaning and brushing Kayla's ceiling teeth you're . While she cleaned,she told Kayla lots tray different of stories.She also explained what she use everybody was doing while she worked.After she was finished wondered be ,she ran a little tool with a small explained doing mirror on the end of it around Kayla's when end mouth .She said that this was so she remembered next could check her work and make sure she had then less cleaned all of Kayla's teeth. “All right,Kayla. Gaze You're Day all finished!”Christine said.“Now,all you began funny need to do is rinse out your mouth toothpicks water at this sink.”Kayla walked over to the sink substance mist and swished the rinse around in her worked mouth so before spitting it down the drain. ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 3 STOP As Kayla need said left the dentist's office,she realized why the picture left brushing was hung on the ceiling.It started noticed was nice to gaze at the waterfall while get will she was having her teeth cleaned.She had right even make imagined that she could feel the using dentist's mist as the water hit the pool below. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 9 progress monitoringDaze 9 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 1 The New House “Let's go,everybody,”Mom called as we got in the van.I fastened my seatbelt while Dad locked opened house my brother Ian's wheelchair into place.“I hug pointed can't wait to see our new house!”Mom cried trouble instead .We were all eager to see it,but no roll hallways one was more excited than Ian.After front all place ,the house was designed especially for him. As we troubled giant drove ,I thought about our old house and about faucet how dining uncomfortable it was for Ian. First of said all carry ,his small hands had trouble turning the still doorknobs same .In addition,it was hard for him to isn't pulled move his wheelchair through the narrow hallways.His turning greatest doorknob challenge was that he couldn't go upstairs stairs clapped by himself.Dad had to carry him.In the himself addition bathroom ,Ian was barely able to reach the entered headed faucet handles. As Mom pulled into the driveway rooms reach ,we saw Mr.Sanchez waiting for us.He excited welcome was the contractor who built the house.We go got door out of the van and Ian rolled wheelchair wide up the ramp that led to the front are able door.Shouting a hearty welcome,Mr.Sanchez shook rolled explained Ian's hand and explained that ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 2 he was contractor thought going to take us on a eager tour usual of our new home. Ian opened the long front home door.Instead of the usual round doorknob love new ,it had a long,thin handle to tour told turn .“Hey,this is easy to open,”Ian greatest is said . We entered the living room.The looked hallway windows were low so Ian could see out of them terrific easily hard .The doorway to the dining room was thin head wide.Mr.Sanchez told us that would all hearty the doorways in the house were round so wide . Mr.Sanchez led us down the wide was can't hallway to the bathroom.The faucet handles on the sink drove no were long handles,like the doorknobs.Mr.Sanchez also let's seatbelt pointed out that there were no got cabinets more underneath the sink.Ian showed us see gave how he could roll right up to the can doorknobs sink and reach the faucet handles. As we hand headed old down the hallway to the bedrooms,Ian have led looked troubled.He asked if Dad would still brother level have to carry him up the stairs were showed to go to his room. ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 3 STOP Mr.Sanchez turn shook all his head.“There isn't an upstairs,Ian.All the while rooms first are on the same level,so you locked doorways can go everywhere by yourself.” Ian clapped his waiting we're hands and said,“This is a terrific could house going .”Mom gave Ian a giant hug and there designed said ,“We're all going to love living here sink ramp .” ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 10 progress monitoringDaze 10 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 1 The Best Kind of Present The students were on their way to Dinosaur State Park for a field trip.They were all very excited about dry fact seeing real dinosaur tracks,and they chatted and it's excited laughed as the school bus rolled along.Cody enough look was looking forward to seeing the park, watched water too ,but he was quiet.He had where made something on his mind. His teacher,Miss Chen, sat messy very down next to him.“You look next troubled really ,”she said.“Is something wrong?” “It's troubles different nothing serious,”Cody started.“It's just that tomorrow walked mix is my dad's birthday,and I present still painted don't have a present for him.”He dad's sighed area .“I want to get him something another fun really different this year.” Miss Chen said that rolled laughed perhaps he would find something great at the looked work park's gift shop.Cody nodded,but when Miss Chen returned tracks first to her seat,he sighed.He perfect bucket knew he didn't have enough money to buy eyes when a present. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 2 When they arrived at the feel didn't park and went inside the exhibit hall,Cody seat forward forgot all his troubles. It was fantastic!The painted time displays walls and dinosaur models made Cody feel traveled best like he had traveled back in oil explained time .There were displays of fossils to knew look make at,too.Best of all,though, footprint were powder the dinosaur footprints in the sandstone mind floor cheered .Cody liked the fact that he was then mixing standing right where dinosaurs had once walked gift real . After the students watched a movie about everyone dinosaurs models ,Miss Chen led them outside to another park's area students with dinosaur footprints.She asked if they sighed movie would like to make a plaster casting of a seeing right footprint .Everyone clapped and cheered,and Miss Chen explained park want that they would each use a were sat footprint as a mold.First,they would mix field teacher plaster powder with water in a dinosaur bucket troubled .Then,they would rub oil into the don't footprint got .Next,they would pour in the said plaster serious .When it was dry,they could lift sandstone great it out and have their very was own walls dinosaur footprint. The students got busy footprints mixing all ,oiling,and pouring.Cody found that it hall each was messy work, ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 3 STOP but very fun.When he that's lifted fossils up the dry plaster and looked at his standing could dinosaur footprint,his eyes lit up. With a back wrong big smile,he told Ms.Chen that he had just quiet cried found the perfect present. “That's great,”she though rub cried .“And best of all,”she added with a wink told added ,“it is really different!” ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 11 progress monitoringDaze 11 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 1 The Attorney General Over three hundred million people live in the United States today.There are thousands of laws to helping thousands make sure all are treated fairly.The Department of Justice saw has two thousands of law officers,judges, and lawyers three young .They work hard to bring justice to rights all do the people. The Department of Justice is part of the United States honest sometimes government .This department has many duties.Two of the be part most important are helping people understand the large laws work and making sure people follow them. The most attend person in charge of such a large aunt hundred department has a lot of responsibility.This though person government is the Attorney General.To do this reporters is job ,a person must be honest,tough,and glad went fair .He or she must have many years charge held of experience in the justice system.President Bill Clinton sure big saw all of these qualities in Janet Reno.He tried named time her Attorney General at the start of his when term want . She held this job for eight years jobs office . Janet was the first woman to fair are be Attorney General.As a young girl,she began looked making up to the ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 2 other women in her family some right as role models.At a time when hard worked most women did not have jobs,her mother people answer was a reporter.Her aunt was an army follow also nurse.Another aunt flew planes. Janet term person went on to study law.When she was not flew done with college,she tried to times stacks get a job at a big law must met firm in Florida.They did not want her day done because she was a woman.Another office system has was glad to have her,though.After a few head nurse years,Janet began to work for the state another did of Florida.During this time she law duties worked hard to protect the rights of children there firm . As Attorney General,Janet had a lot to do years family .Every day she had stacks of role often papers to read and sign.She also had to attend understand first important meetings.She often met with questions judges such ,people in the government,or the treated advice head of the FBI to give legal advice women qualities and ask questions.Sometimes she would few meet planes with the President to give him sign remember advice .Other times,she would meet with reporters woman looked to answer questions. In all she fairly legal did ,Janet worked hard to do what was laws named right.Some people will remember her ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 3 STOP for being bring live the first woman Attorney General.Most will remember today department her for being honest and fair. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 12 progress monitoringDaze 12 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 1 Hank Aaron The famous baseball player known as Hank Aaron was born in nineteen thirty-four.When he was a teenager,his not family called moved to another part of town hit so teenager that he and his siblings could talented moment go to a different school.His mother and town other father always encouraged their children to be the feel best get that they could be.So when Hank two decided any to become a baseball player he better stopped put all of his heart into it. Thirty Eagerly When Hank was a teenager,he played on some go family of his city's baseball teams.On these pitchers teams because ,he just played for fun and happy mother did not earn any money.One day he played part forty in a game against a big, certainly important siblings team from a city in Indiana.The agreed team's beat owner was amazed by young Hank's father important talent .He offered him a job as a new played professional baseball player. Hank was very happy would made because this man was going to pay him to job do last what he loved—playing baseball.With only famous eighteen two sandwiches and two dollars,Hank took fans very the train to Indiana. Over the next power went few years,Hank played for many slapping one other teams.Each one was better than ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 2 the last much exciting .On every team,Hank's talent made him big did stand out as an important player.Then, title when if he was twenty,Hank was invited to players join rattlesnake a team called the Braves.He run eagerly six agreed.Hank was playing with the best finding year players in American baseball. What made Hank such later breaking a special player?It was his could encouraged speed and power when hitting a baseball. Decided Most Home baseball players feel lucky to hit pitcher eighteen another home runs every year.Hank once hit some mark forty-seven!Baseball pitchers tried to years twenty trick him,but he could always get a invited seven hit .One pitcher said that trying to than runs fool Hank was like slapping a rattlesnake. When Each More year,Hank made more home runs. Both Baseball Sport fans started to wonder if he would fun four beat Babe Ruth.Babe Ruth held the each such title for the most home runs during his career special owner .When Hank hit the record-breaking going once home run,his fans went wild!It career record was an exciting moment in the history of baseball took become . Six years later,Hank stopped playing baseball.He stand began few a new job finding talented ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 3 STOP young school held players and helping them to succeed at the born sport wild he loved so much.This role was next moved perfect for Hank.He is a put role offered model,both on and off the field day always ,and has certainly left his mark on the every sport helping of baseball. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 13 progress monitoringDaze 13 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 1 Known for Courage Leaping across the boulders leading to the lighthouse,Ida pulled her shawl tightly around her. “What a busy morning it's going to aloud blew be ,”she said aloud.Ida knew that someone if hear she didn't clean the prisms on the lighthouse reached couldn't light,it wouldn't be bright enough to could oars help guide the sailors entering the harbor. Busy Moving When she reached the small lighthouse,Ida leading pulled bright open the heavy door and stepped inside. She day seconds put out the oil lamp and trimmed the wick pulled were before relighting it.She finished the rest barely slid of her chores quickly.She wanted to get became chores back home before the big storm lamp blew short in.Making her way back to her it's aboard house ,Ida heard the cries of gulls and the heavy waves blast of a horn from a ship at sea island someone's . As the hours passed,the day back became heard gray and bleak.A frosty chill said enough settled on the island.The wind grew dangerous crying more forceful.Inside,Ida had moved her grew blast chair closer to the fire and picked up her mending would ran basket when she heard a voice arms crying wind ,“Help!Someone's drowning!” In an instant,Ida morning gulls leapt from her chair and ran out of the tilt finished house ,calling for her brother to ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 2 follow.She halfway lighthouse was moving too quickly to hear her going neighbor's basket plea.“Stop!It's dangerous!”the neighbor be shouted one ,but Ida couldn't hear her voice over the cries crashing noticed waves. Seconds later,she was rowing the boat calling struggle through the choppy seas.Even though her neighbor help arms were strong from years of rowing back big if and forth to the mainland,Ida had to neighbor's struggle slamming to keep the boat on course. Quickly Halfway Also out,a huge wave crashed into the bow moved water ,causing the boat to tilt to leaping one leapt side.Ida barely noticed the wave or the water open trimmed at her feet.Instead,she held her first too gaze on the two men bobbing in the water later fire ahead. Straining to pull the oars through the water,she small slid men the boat beside the first man.Ida gasping tried instead to steady the boat against the wanted clean slamming waves.Her brother pulled the man aboard storm saw .At that moment,she saw the passed saving second man disappear beneath the water for a more mainland short time.She could tell that his strength second steady was running out. Minutes later,the oil keep second man was also safely in the forceful boat instant ,and Ida had turned the boat ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 3 STOP toward held guide shore .The two men,gasping for air, gaze tried prisms to thank Ida and her brother for knew turned saving them. “What would you do if you wouldn't boat saw someone drowning?”she said calmly. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 14 progress monitoringDaze 14 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 1 The Perfect Topping On Thursday,everyone in class went around and named their favorite foods.Tonya said her favorite food was the turned water pizza her family made.After school was over,she agreed waited tonight with Megan for the bus. “Do you thing really got make your own pizza?”Megan asked.“I said love thought pizza,but I've never made it. Is Perfectly Waited it hard?” “No,it's easy!”said Tonya.“ If Grilled Potato our parents let us,do you want served sprinkled to come over for dinner tomorrow? Eager We're Added making it then.” Megan was eager to love try called it,and their parents agreed,so the discussed hard next day Megan went to Tonya's house.On the brought whole way ,they discussed what toppings to put on their spread pizza salt . “You'd be surprised by what you peppers can so put on a pizza,”Tonya said.“ Lots Couldn't Pan of things you'd never think of dinner can potatoes make really good toppings.” Megan always suggested ordered mixed the same thing on her pizza: pantry seen mushrooms and green peppers.She ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 2 wondered what took else cook she could try. As dinnertime approached,Tonya's cool brother slices started making the dough by mixing next dinnertime flour , water,salt,and yeast.He let Tonya and Megan dough taste try it,and Megan thought it was delicious you'd family . Tonya's parents opened the pantry for choose topping excited ideas.“What shall we put on it tonight flavors bus ?”her mom asked. Tonya suggested an great onion we're ,and then Tonya's brother got out wondered some put potatoes.Megan had never seen potatoes on a rolled pizza really before.She tried to think what she could topping hot choose that would be a good, unusual asked want topping. “What if we put apple brother slices too on the pizza?”Megan suggested.Everyone agreed cheese helped that was a great idea.While Tonya's parents come ideas prepared the toppings,Megan grated cheese and Tonya and her brother do tried rolled the dough flat and put it in the dad table pan .They spread sauce on it and Megan things sprinkled some on the cheese.Tonya's dad put on the set oven grilled onion and her mom added the food sauce potatoes and apple ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 3 STOP slices.Then they put the careful whole onion thing in the oven to cook. As Megan helped good made Tonya set the table,she was opened bite excited by the thought of their pizza.She toppings couldn't prepared wait to taste it. “Careful,it's house easy hot ,”called Tonya's father as he brought it out.He mushrooms cut class it into slices and served everyone,and else when own it was cool enough,Megan took a bite cut foods . The sweet flavors of the apple never slices favorite mixed perfectly with the grilled onion and was be potato . Thrilled,Megan turned to Tonya.“Now your favorite mixing pizza food is my favorite food,too!”she make taste said . ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 15 progress monitoringDaze 15 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 1 Being a Plumber When people wake up and prepare for the day ahead,they expect to have hot and cold water. When they are ready to brush their happens teeth few ,they turn on the faucet for people also cold water.Warm water makes for a treatment comfortable completely bath or shower.Clean water flows into the connect clean sink ,shower,or tub.Then it drains down and out through the well pipes washing . A hundred years ago very few toilet case people had hot and cold running water. Lines Most Bath people had an outhouse in the tank are backyard .Very few had indoor toilets.They had to sewer pump go water from a well.If they very wanted prepare hot water,they had to pump run cold home water and then heat it on the how stove when . Plumbers are the workers who make all need running water possible.Plumbers know how to single connect coming all the pipes and valves that ago bring make water into a home.They also carry valves know how to get the wastewater out of the turn plumbers house to the sewer.These sewer pipes ground teeth carry wastewater to the treatment plant. Water is faucets hot also brought to our homes through outhouse there pipes .These pipes are buried in the ground pipes amount along the streets.When a new split not house is built,the city installs a might water hundred meter,a branch ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 2 STOP pipe,and a cut water years -off valve near the house.The water branch just meter measures the amount of water that city is get used in the house.The plumber apartment uses will the branch pipe to connect a supply ahead do line.The cut-off valve lets a plumber running if turn off all of the water bring emergencies coming into the house in case of emergencies wanted two . Inside the house,the single line valve supply coming in is split into two.One of these brought lines fix feeds water into the hot water house tank day .From there,pipes go to all the hot meter other water faucets in the house.The problem other ready line feeds water to all the plant cold lets -water faucets and to the toilets. Plumbers Backyard Tub know how to provide people with the workers water expect they need for cooking,cleaning,and sink washing start .Sometimes a part of the plumbing in a feeds possible house or an apartment breaks.A toilet time might pump start to run water all the time breaks shower .A faucet might not turn off drains heat completely .When that happens,it is time to sometimes call provide the plumber,who will know just what to cooking faucet do to fix the problem. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 16 progress monitoringDaze 16 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 1 The Invention of the Vacuum Pet hair,dust,dirt,and cookie crumbs can all add up to make a carpet a dirty mess.It's time to get out the thinking mops vacuum cleaner!Plug it in,and in simple just easy a few minutes the carpet is than clean suck again. It wasn't so simple in the past.Before the invention wheels did of vacuum cleaners,floors were cleaned with brooms hair sat ,brushes,and mops.To get a backbreaking carpet housekeepers really clean,it had to be really hung enough up outdoors and beaten with sticks.It later was man backbreaking,unpleasant work. Inventors looked for not ways cart to make the job easier.The were first plug sweeping machine appeared in 1858.It was made hung a brush with wheels on a handle air appeared .The brush spun around when pushed, time sweeping got up dirt.This machine worked about as handle would well as a broom,but it could call not rug pick up dirt that was deep in a carpet created just .Housekeepers still had to beat their carpets instead cookie to get all the dirt out. A few pet feet years later,an inventor came up with a dirty so machine that would suck the dirt up, hose rather looked than brush it around.The suction housekeeper was used created by a small fan inside the machine wasn't thanks .There was no motor to drive the catch fan cleaning ,however.Instead,it had a crank that the housekeeper pick it's turned by hand. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 2 Turning this crank machine fast invention enough and long enough to clean a mess popular whole rug was tiring!This machine did not when inventor catch on. Around the beginning of the clean get twentieth century,someone got the idea that a good machine years that blew air could be used for twentieth idea cleaning floors.This machine was not popular either success work .All it did was blow the dirt small tiring around! Finally,a year later,a man carpet very invented a machine with a motor that however few sucked dirt up.However, this machine was make huge broom !It sat on a cart that was be pulled first by horses.People would call the man suction whole when they wanted their floors cleaned.He would closets sweeping park the cart outside the house and pulled cleaner use a hose that was one hundred beaten feet was long to suck up the dirt.It was not brush house easy,but it did a very ways sucked good job of cleaning. This man's success still got brushes other inventors thinking,and it wasn't year add long before someone made the first small crank electric sticks vacuum cleaner.Thanks to its small use long size ,people could store it in ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 3 STOP their size closets cleaned .Thanks to its electric motor,it was horses well easy to use.And thanks to all these clever outdoors there inventors,cleaning a carpet is a job worked quick and simple job today! ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 17 progress monitoringDaze 17 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 1 The People's Artist You might not know his name,but you may have seen his pictures.His art brings to mind the good showed working old days of small town America.Those days popular painted may be gone,but people still often love actually the art of Norman Rockwell. Norman was consider made born in New York City.He knew from a young money normal age that he wanted to be an artist lives preferred .He actually left high school early to man study born art full time.It wasn't long before he confuse was artwork earning money for his artwork.He was painting time only eighteen when he was hired by a different magazine let to be its art director. At was age everyone twenty-two,a magazine called the Saturday Evening Post put artist squares one of his paintings on its letters cover seen .This was a great honor for love such ordinary a young man.The Saturday Evening Post was one simple worry of the most popular magazines in America at that interest may time .Over the next few decades, Norman's school be artwork appeared on the cover of the “Evening Post” woman more paint than three hundred times. Many of Norman's artists paintings few showed ordinary moments of life in America.They showed still hired ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 2 children playing and people working at their jobs not many .Norman painted these scenes with charm and magazines humor playing .They showed the good side of life charming other and made people feel happy and people hundred proud .He often told people that he sad just might couldn't paint sad pictures. His paintings wanted than were very different from the work of other paintings wasn't artists of that time.These artists happy were times making modern art.They did not paint couldn't called scenes in a normal way.For side young instance ,a painting of a woman by a modern more age artist might be made up of magazine scribbles bags ,drips of paint,or circles and squares eighteen next .These artists looked down on Norman's only just work .They said it was dull.They warmth did feel not consider him a good artist. But modern life sending art did not interest Norman.He were did wanted to paint pictures that everyone would like, drips director not pictures that would confuse or worry charm people honor .And many people preferred Norman's simple, circles scribbles charming scenes to modern art.They let him know good high by sending him bags and bags of fan early looked letters.Even after his death,his such art long lives on.Today people still love his its pictures brings for their ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 3 STOP warmth and humor,and for making left most them smile. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 18 progress monitoringDaze 18 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 1 The News Team It is 1956,and people all across the country are turning on their television sets to watch the evening news.On one channel,two men deliver the college clever news .One is serious,and the other again lets loved a spark of wit and humor show one would in his reports.They make a school perfect more team.For the next several years, their news did spark program is number one in the men country writers . The serious member of this team thing reports is Chet Huntley.The other is David Brinkley,who television number was born in North Carolina in nineteen twenty.His career wasn't just as a news reporter began when he was clearly fact a teenager.He wrote articles about his deliver enjoyed high school for a newspaper owned by a newspapers member people of his family.After high school,he enough better went to college for a while.Then he night started owned working as a reporter again,writing partner news born stories for many newspapers.He made the switch high country from newspaper to radio during the Second World War. Soon Feeling Lasted a new invention started to catch on: looked television program !It wasn't long before Brinkley began articles isn't giving news reports on TV. What made Brinkley answered little so good at what he did?First of giving way all ,he was a good writer. ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 2 STOP He began because could explain a news story clearly with working reporter just a few words.Younger news writers looked perfect very up to him.From him they learned mind while that good writing could make their made work all better. Second,he did more than just other came read the news.His wit and clever be nineteen mind always came through.He once show friendly said that the only way to do news on TV is humor sets not to be scared of it.He said not news that most of the news isn't younger very brought important.In fact,he thought very little warm are of it was. He was serious about his read work wrote ,though.In fact,he and his twenty wit partner on the news show did not like the each ending newspaper of their show because they felt it team writer was not serious enough.Each night at the two end new of the show,David said,“Good told night watch ,Chet.”Chet then answered,“Good night,David.”They make ending both thought this was silly,but people watching silly once the show loved it.They liked the invention switch warm and friendly feeling it brought to the news lets show old . Brinkley's career lasted for over forty end explain years ,and he enjoyed all of it.He evening told writing his son that if he were twenty long scared years old,he would do the went same were thing all over again. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 19 progress monitoringDaze 19 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 1 Money Most people have seen money,but few have seen it being created.Keep reading to find out where money mints using comes from and how it is bill metals made . In the United States,money comes in the contained safety form of coins and paper bills.New only machine coins are made every day at one of uses bags four places in the country.These special be government places are called mints. To make a holding coin have ,a machine feeds huge rolls of make find flat metal into the side of another stamps duplicated machine .Different coins use different metals.Then the year ago second machine cuts the flat metal into more silk called than thirty thousand round pieces,like dried loaded using cookie cutters on dough.The metal large cutters pieces come out of the machine shaped like coins where day ,but they are blank.The pieces sheets cannot are heated and cooled. Then they are washed each how and dried.Next they go to can few another machine.This machine presses each round places when piece into a mold of a coin. Dough Cars New ,shiny coins come pouring out of the machine watermarks comes .The coins are counted and put into mold huge counted bags.The bags are loaded onto kinds made armored cars.Now they are ready to be cooled piece safely delivered to banks across the being get country . ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 2 STOP Paper bills are printed in Washington,D.C.,and Forth Worth,Texas. Country Goes Each of these locations prints millions of light work dollars worth of bills each year. The put printing used of bills begins with large sheets of coin people blank paper.Unlike other kinds of paper, the special such see paper the government uses for the banks bills shiny does not get soggy if it locations paper gets wet or is run through the washing ready cookie machine.The paper is made of if cotton presses and linen.Bills made one hundred years too money ago even contained silk. The huge side blank pouring sheets of paper enter a machine that blank real stamps the paper with ink and cuts it into created bills printed .The machine uses special ink that four unlike cannot be duplicated.There are many other creating safety then features on the bills,too,such as special watermarks go that can only be seen when holding different delivered a bill up to the light.This helps features sure people make sure that the money they there are cuts spending is real.As you can hundred see washed ,a lot of work goes into creating round is the money that is used each and form every washing day. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G3/Progress Monitoring 20 progress monitoringDaze 20 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 1 The Harper House One hundred years ago,the Harper House was the grandest in town.The Harper family gave parties in were place its ballroom,and the gardens were the perfect played envy of everyone.But then the family was now lost their money,and they moved away.For wanted years fixed the house stood empty.The roof when part fell in,the walls sagged,and weeds family took helped over the gardens. But today the Harper House decorate designer is beautiful once more,thanks to the believes finished efforts of the town's Park Department.The head of the Park Department floors older explained ,“We wanted to save the house because useful sits it is part of our town's history because moved .Now it is beautiful and useful, would too planned .” Workers and builders fixed the walls, meetings roof help ,and floors.When repairs were finished,it ago was did time to decorate inside.The decorators piece wanted beautiful everything to look just like it choose too did one hundred years ago.They studied old curtains be photographs and drawings of the house.This helped workers large them choose the right curtains,artwork,and will old furniture . Then it was time to restore the everything lawn there and gardens.For this job,the director backyard town's hired May ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G3/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 2 Chen,an expert gardener and landscape children fell designer.She believes landscaping is very house important today to the appearance of a house.She landscaping wanted artwork the yard to be as pretty as the just sagged house . Designing the landscape for the Harper House was expert future a challenge for Ms.Chen.Because the house lived right is very big and sits on a could gardener huge piece of land,she needed to plan roof builders flower beds that were very large. Photographs Director Flower beds of a normal size would look also head too small. Like the decorators,Ms.Chen studied plan once old photographs of the house.She look empty also talked to older people in town.The Harper goldfish thanks family still lived in the house when history some picnics of these people were children.They had ballroom played stroll in the gardens and could still remember appearance pretty what the gardens looked like. One save weeds man told her about a little goldfish pond designing landscape in the backyard.With his help,she money its planned one just like it. The Park Department furniture flower has big plans for the house now. Needed There Size will be town meetings and parties in the told ballroom has ,and part of the house will big small be a museum.People will be able ©2011 All rights reservedG3/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 3 STOP to still repairs stroll and have picnics in the gardens,and it very is studied the perfect place for weddings.The Harper House is gardens normal part of the town's history.Now it walls hired is part of its future,too!