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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGr. 4 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 4 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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 1 progress monitoringDaze 1 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 1 The Advice Column If there was one thing Addie loved, it was giving advice. When her mother couldn't decide what to suggested plant wasn't in the garden, Addie advised tomatoes, since they remember were don't tasty in sauces and salads. When her father looked best worried the garage looked rundown, Addie people advised made him to paint it bright blue. To her be finished teenage sister who was looking for a going job showed , Addie suggested tutoring math, her best subject notes especially . Addie advised everyone she knew because she do looks enjoyed helping solve problems. In December, Addie's want teacher didn't made an announcement. “We are going to sister make would a class newspaper,” Mr. Silva said. “ Appeared Everyone Read will have an important role, such as one interviewing know interesting people about their lives, describing our wanted classroom enthusiasm , or reporting on field trips and different announcement assemblies . We can even have an advice classroom always column . You can sign up after class for what you situation want another to do.” An advice column! Addie couldn't knew next right away she wanted to write it, readers reporting so after class she eagerly asked Mr. Silva if much have she could be the advice columnist. He smiled advise when and said, “That sounds great, Addie. I'll put member sure a sign outside saying any student needing together gave advice should write me a note.” ©2011 All rights reserved The next columnist paint week, Mr. Silva gave Addie a thick looking answers stack of notes. “It looks like a lot field took of people want your advice,” he knew problems said . Addie took them excitedly, but her enthusiasm giving eagerly faded as she started to read them. She help didn't parents know who the notes were from, and she bright wasn't harder always sure how to best advise them. Addie loved teenage realized it was much harder to give advice some newspaper to people she didn't know and any couldn't also talk to. What if she gave the advised just wrong advice? She asked Mr. Silva for even student help . “I have an idea,” said Mr. Silva. “ Why Ask Questions don't you ask your parents and lives older ideas sister how they would handle the enjoyed away problems ? They may have different perspectives.” At plant students' dinner , Addie told her family about the excitedly mother students' questions, and asked what they would do so job in each situation. Together, they all talked garage garden over the different ideas. By the end family salads of dinner, Addie knew Mr. Silva's idea agreed helping had worked. She had really helpful were answers everyone for her column, and she also had another thing rundown very important piece of advice to give describing math her readers. Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 2 ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 3 STOP Two weeks later, Addie showed column sauces her family the finished newspaper. They saying all assemblies admired her column and agreed she had smiled given father very helpful advice, especially the note that appeared decide could at the bottom of her column. It said asked thick , “Remember: If you have a problem, a teacher dinner realized or family member may have some great tomatoes idea advice. Just ask them!” ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 2 progress monitoringDaze 2 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 1 Art Class Every fall, the students prepared for the annual art fair. Not only was the art fair a great dressed said place for students to showcase their place work try , it also helped raise money for the detailed school's superhero art and music programs. Unfortunately, Tomas wasn't illustrations sell as excited about the upcoming event as his annual classmates book . Tomas didn't dislike art, but he excited just body didn't think he could draw like the stay would other students. Some of the other kids fair loved could create detailed paintings of mountain landscapes or drawn fields atop of flowers, but not Tomas. He sign preferred also to draw pictures of amazing and reminded people unusual characters using ideas that popped into his creature told head , but he was always too timid to felt share enormous them with his teacher or his raise already classmates . While his friends were busy getting class ready one for the art fair, Tomas just sat fields have around and doodled. He was sure the dollars was people in charge wouldn't choose any of his sat landscapes artwork to sell, but he enjoyed sketching programs sometimes pictures of his classmates. His pictures weren't like the timid amazing portraits he had studied in his art make unfortunately book . He drew pictures of his friends wearing every can magic capes or X-ray vision ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 2 goggles, or dislike sometimes using he would draw them with enormous wings very head or with their heads sitting atop the body patch other of a hulking creature. These silly drawings well great reminded Tomas of the illustrations in his comic minute original books. One afternoon Tomas was in the work middle school's of drawing a picture of his friend drawing paintings Juan dressed up in an astronaut too just outfit when his teacher, Mr. Carl, walked by. He not asked capes Tomas what he was working on. Tomas while some was embarrassed, but before he could hide the drawing wasn't only , Mr. Carl had picked up the unusual portrait middle . Mr. Carl smiled as he studied the mountain say picture . “This is fantastic work! Do you think pictures flowers you could make one of me?” Tomas picture parrot was shocked. “You want me to make one friends kids of you?” he asked. “I guess I can magic hide try.” Tomas spent the rest of the guess hour will drawing a picture of Mr. Carl in a wearing prepared pirate outfit with a ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 3 STOP patch over his studied eye rest and a parrot on his shoulder. The wouldn't music whole class loved it. After class was over, Mr. Carl drawings comic asked Tomas to stay for a minute. He told money fantastic Tomas that the artwork he had picked sitting created was very original and well drawn. “ Share Fall So , it looks like you'll be joining us at the busy art eye fair,” said Mr. Carl. “What do you mean could any ?” Tomas asked, confused. Mr. Carl told Tomas he astronaut would ever be working his own portrait booth. He classmates said weren't , “I can see the sign for your booth outift silly already! It will say, Have you showcase whole ever felt like a superhero? Get drawn as one be spent now for only five dollars!” ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 3 progress monitoringDaze 3 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 1 A Sigh of Relief Stepping off the bus, I caught my first glimpse of Camp Bear Creek. I inhaled and felt a rush of felt beds excitement for my first week at camp. I green knew time that I would have a wonderful time glimpse horseback . That is, as long as I explained didn't ball get too lonely thinking about my favorite twenty other dog, Patterson. A teenager came over to sleeping greet river us. “Hey, girls, I'm Dolores. I'm one dropped meet of the counselors here at Bear Creek. Director Dog Line up behind me if your name tag porch mail is green, and I'll take you to our hey cabin caught .” I looked down at the tag I campground played was wearing, which had arrived in the several mail laundered two weeks earlier. It was green, be wait so I scrambled into the line forming near Dolores. A few would also minutes later, Dolores was leading twelve of us through the back canoeing forest to a small cabin with a large benches things porch. When we arrived, she showed us the get got bunk beds where we would sleep. There instead were all also lockers where we could store our belongings few rush . Then she told us that we had excitement surprised twenty minutes to unpack our things and put available tag the freshly laundered sheets on our bunks reached arrangements . ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 2 I introduced myself to the girl who belongings swimming would be sleeping below my bunk. I thinking helped weeks her secure the sheets on her wearing stopping bed and she told me that her main name arrived was Eloise. This was also her favorite places first year at camp. I showed her a counselors picture threw of Patterson and told her all about my looked greet pet . After we had finished preparing our didn't mouth sleeping arrangements, we took the trail back to the bunk main lockers campground to meet the other campers. Is When Freshly we got there, I was surprised to have forming see about sixty other campers. We were came if told to take our places on several take leading benches , which formed a large circle. A store few line minutes later, the camp director began long circle speaking from the center of the circle. She preparing put welcomed us and told us all about the sigh activities realize available at camp. I couldn't wait to bounded name try horseback riding, canoeing, and swimming in the river black inhaled . While the camp director was speaking to us, a minutes large pocket dog suddenly ran up to her. My small cabin mouth dropped open. The dog looked like Patterson, except it riding already was brown instead of black. Without stopping, the told camp girls director reached into her pocket, took out a breathed ball large , and threw it. As ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 3 STOP the dog sheets one bounded after the ball, she explained that the suddenly dog's unpack name was Juniper. Juniper loved it when center week the campers played with her. I breathed welcomed sleep a sigh of relief to realize that I knew helped already had two friends. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 4 progress monitoringDaze 4 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 1 A Kite Festival “Look at this,” Dad said, pointing to an ad in the newspaper. Nora took the paper and read the long attend ad for an upcoming kite festival. Just threw last eleven week, Nora and her dad had visited kite hold a museum where there was an refine exhibit site about kite-making. Nora had been number exhibit so interested in the kites that she be bought air a kite-making book. All week she had technique been registration working on making her own kite. As Nora how read next the ad details, her eyes grew wide masters so with excitement. It was expected that continued more pointing than 1,000 kites would fly at the special festival techniques . There would even be a special event beamed eyes for children. Nora and Dad decided that they school worked would attend. Nora called the number printed in the called ad kites and got more information as well as the just rules printed for the children's event. According to the ad festival amazing rules, all children had to make their grew newspaper own kites, so every day after school, Nora continued impressive week working on her kite. She went out was noon every day to practice flying her kite and contest fliers see how well it worked. She continued to awaited refine began it and practice her technique until expert finally daring she was happy with the results. She had designed all working and constructed a colorful ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 2 and attractive see make kite that flew well, and she knew the best would even techniques for flying it. Nora felt show way ready for the upcoming challenge. On the day own constructed of the kite festival, Nora and her dad arrived opening moves at the site in time for the rules impressive paper opening ceremonies. The master kite-maker impressive contest visited began just after the opening ceremonies. Nora and Dad watched flying flew the masters make and fly their last field kites with expert skill. At noon, it was very took time to start the children's event, so challenge more Nora took her kite to the still gently registration table for children under eleven and amazement ended signed up. She made her way to the according showed field and awaited the judge's signal. She skill gently maker threw her kite in the air and felt making decided the wind take hold, soaring the finally maneuvers kite up into the sky. It had to well where fly for one minute to qualify. It every signal flew for that long and more! Nora beamed practice made at her kite and felt very table proud fly . Next, Nora and her dad watched in amazement got read as master kite fliers showed off their bought tricks time and kite moves in the Hot Tricks Showdown. Nora gasped winner upcoming as the kites executed daring ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 3 STOP and festival amazing start maneuvers. The day ended with a wide signed contest in which the winner was the details qualify last kite still flying in the air. What a been show soaring it was! ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 5 progress monitoringDaze 5 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 1 A Play About Texas The lights went out on stage for just a moment. Then all the actors came out to take helpers explained a bow, and I leapt to my feet it's how and clapped loudly. I glanced at my mother watching all , father, and brother, and saw that they were few summer also cheering eagerly. We had just seeing served watched “Texas, A Musical Romance of Panhandle History,” a play shown in an outdoor performed are amphitheater during the summer months. On the costumes way loudly to the parking lot after the play canyons everyone , I was dancing to the music that was saw sit still playing in my head. We drove horseback clapped back to our cabin, talking excitedly about the play equipped talking . “My favorite part was seeing the wants muscle canyons at night,” my father said. “It's only water neat to be able to sit under the head stars entered and watch a play.” “I liked another eating could dinner beforehand,” said Mom, “and watching you also kids canyon scramble around on those rocks.” Before we guided went danced to the play, we had eaten dinner warm when near the entrance to the theater. The wearing partner cookout dinner was served on picnic tables overlooking western noise the colorful layers of the canyon. After remember picture dinner , we entered the outdoor theater and were howdy months welcomed by men and women ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 2 dressed in boots were crowd and western clothing. One man tipped his cowboy swept audience hat to me and said, “Howdy, wonder partner bolt .” Before these helpers guided us to our seats part hearing , they explained that water is the only think watched drink allowed in the theater. They drove real also said that the theater was equipped with a visitors seats sound system for visitors who are hearing theater brother impaired . My mother was excited to learn about this watch because moved my grandmother planned to see the play story excitedly in a few weeks. “Remember how the if horseback eating riders came out as the play parking started wild ?” my brother asked. I could picture the unfolded impaired scene in my mind. Two riders, one carrying way playing a Texas flag and another carrying an American take different flag , ran along the top of the is canyon skin at sunset. The crowd went wild and stage asked then the play began. The play was about a relationship mother effects between a farmer and a rancher. As the story system thunderstorm unfolded, different actors came onstage wearing made colorful stars costumes. They sang and danced to because music jumped performed by a live band. I said lot don't think I moved a muscle the play whole go time. ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 3 STOP “I thought the special effects cookout were learn fantastic,” I added. In one part of the play, a one thunderstorm night swept across the stage with flashing dinner thought lights and lots of noise. When a sound mind sudden bolt of lightning struck a tree on the side moment onstage of the canyon, everyone in the favorite music audience jumped. The warm summer breeze blowing against my flag cabin skin made me wonder for a moment if lights don't a real storm had come. My weeks father dressed stopped the car next to the cabin struck overlooking . “Who wants to go again next rocks summer able ?” he asked. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 6 progress monitoringDaze 6 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 1 A Long Journey In the fall, Monarch butterflies are born in the northern part of the United States. When the temperature drops, the butterflies every though know it is time to begin the would bad journey south to Mexico, where not only twelve one is it warmer, but there are more plants going dangers on which to feed. Most Monarch eight butterflies uses live only four or five weeks, but keep once were a year a special generation is born new rest that will live seven to eight mysterious months way . For comparison, this would be as if where hibernate every so often people were born who hundred how lived over five hundred years! These long-lived each butterflies is will leave their birthplace, flying a route still years they seem to know, though it is stops groups the first time they have made the miles parents journey . They fly about fifty miles each drops day weeks , making stops as they go to face get group nectar from flowers. This gives them the energy feed there they need to keep flying. They face enough mountaintop many dangers as they fly south, grandchildren too including flying through bad weather and coming in contact soon trunks with predators. Still, they keep going. After about two stop butterflies' months, the butterflies come to rest on a mountaintop need fall in Mexico ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 2 teeming with millions of unlike when other butterflies. Somehow they all make it to such butterflies one of twelve remote mountains. New generations of teeming warmer butterflies arrive there year after year. Even offspring born scientists are not sure how they know the way adults get . The butterflies hibernate on the mountain for about time take four months in huge groups on tree trunks millions month . When it gets warmer in February, the butterflies wake months other . Soon, they begin their trip back to the North. During the part trip gets , the female butterflies stop to lay most eggs weather . In about one month, the babies butterfly hatched can from these eggs will head north, too huge coming . These new butterflies, unlike their elderly predators winter parents , will only live four to five weeks birthplace not . This will not be enough time for them to often finish contact such a long journey. Their children and back south grandchildren will finish it for them, each flying lay generation only living for a month and once people flying as far as they can before it is generations information time for their offspring to take over. Only Hatched Kids and adults are helping scientists learn more children northern about this mysterious butterfly ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 3 STOP migration. A program progress seem called Journey North asks for your help tree day . When you see a Monarch, report it to the asks mountain group . Journey North uses the information to map somehow remote the butterflies' progress as they travel to their winter see map and summer homes. You can track the two leave butterflies' progress online and be a part of their wake exciting all migration. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 7 progress monitoringDaze 7 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 1 Going to the Museum Talking with people about dinosaur bones, colorful rocks, and giant insects is all in a day's work for Mr. Martin. He's a guide at the Museum of Natural History. Worth Helping It's a job that combines his love of green science be and people. It's a good thing Mr. Martin shapes likes because people, as the museum has hundreds of visitors really lot every day. Many look at the horns adults exhibits on their own, but others choose to models take himself a guided tour. These people really sees talent learn more from their visit because Mr. Martin explains insects two each exhibit and answers their questions. He animal has strange a talent for grabbing their attention and different gets helping them learn. Mr. Martin says that bored science each group of people is different. He people doesn't spends just give memorized speeches. When he takes guide much a group of people on a tour seems speeches , he asks himself what they need to loves know just about each exhibit. For example, a time group asks of first graders will have different questions knows many than a group of adults. Sometimes however tour there are one or two people in a group combines tired who are bored. Mr. Martin sees ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 2 them as a something items challenge . He knows that there is something to job interest memorized everyone in this museum. He tries hard animals know to help them find it. The museum more explains is home to thousands of items. Mr. Martin graders seems so to know something about each one. When Other Work the museum gets a new item or makes he's learning a new exhibit, he spends time learning sometimes give as much as he can about it. That way working choose , he'll be ready for any questions a learn visitor day might ask. He says he's learned a he'll giant lot since he started working at the museum hurt each . Mr. Martin loves his job because he prehistoric excited gets to see so many interesting things. For item holds example , the museum has a big exhibit of questions insects see from around the world. He is amazed it's favorite by how many sizes and shapes of insects kinds visit there are. There are tiny green flies ask show and giant beetles with horns! The mineral fun takes room is also fun, with its feet skeletons many different kinds of rocks. However, Mr. Martin's way favorite home part of the museum is the prehistoric horses someone animal room. It holds dinosaur skeletons and tiny doesn't models of other animals that have disappeared from the Earth, such might question as ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 3 STOP tiny horses and giant cats visitors such . Mr. Martin loves to show people these first strange has animals. Mr. Martin says that sometimes he dinosaur finds gets tired and his feet hurt. But visitor when makes he answers a question and sees guided someone learned get excited about learning something new, he finds all one it is all worth it. various ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 8 progress monitoringDaze 8 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 1 The Grocery Store Everyone needs food, and many of us buy our food at the local grocery store. Often, we take these stores for ring icy granted , but running a grocery store requires a charge fact lot of skill and cooperation. The employees in a something needs grocery store all work as a team. Activities Squeaky Each person does his or her job to line types make sure that we get the best food time people possible. Grocery stores have a variety of then take sections . For example, if you want to poultry buy workers fresh fruits and vegetables, you go to the fish produce is section. It takes many different people to baggers choose keep this section running well. There are cut stockers birthday that make sure that the fruits and how vegetables another are fresh and neatly stacked. These workers kinds shopping are supervised by produce managers who are jobs needed in charge of ordering the right work see amounts of all the different types of produce cases many . At any given time in the while soap bakery , all kinds of activities are going on. Job Shelves Someone might be putting the icing on a section birthday cold cake. Another worker could be adding bag cake nuts to the cake mix or checking the code oven requires to see if the bread is it's cooperation ready . All the while, clerks are taking care sold ready of ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 2 customers who want to buy the wash some bakery's products. In the meat department, butchers water running make sure customers have their favorite cuts of ask meat handed , fish, or poultry. They cut and example wrap local their products and then put them in icy can departments cold cases. People can choose among these sections finish products or ask for something special. Butchers products items keep soap and water handy to wash product also surfaces and tools as they work. It's important butchers bagger to keep this department squeaky clean! Like ordering more other departments, the meat department has a manager surfaces scanner who assigns jobs to all those who work department be there. The produce section isn't the takes only variety area that needs stockers. In fact, stockers correct groceries are needed all over the store. Their other fruits job is to line up all of the car bakery's products neatly on shelves or in cases. In vegetables some help stores, they also keep track of area nuts how many of each item are sold. They tell grocery well their managers which items have been employees item selling well. The managers then order more of those neatly items full . After customers finish shopping, they are have ready given to ring up their purchases. It's someone time clerks to ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 3 STOP check out! Cashiers run each isn't item bakery with a product code through the might sure scanner . They weigh fruits and vegetables and type taking are in the correct code for each there one lot . After all the items are totaled, the adding customer only pays and is handed a bag been different full of groceries. The groceries are put into the bag cashiers special by a bagger. Baggers also help put people possible carry their groceries to the car. Going Clearly Mix , it takes a lot of people to manager everyone run a grocery store. Shopping is the food favorite easy part! ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 9 progress monitoringDaze 9 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 1 Prairie Dogs It seemed like we had been driving across northern Kansas forever. After spending a week with my grandparents turned chilly in Missouri, my family was returning while gave home to Colorado. We planned to camp come overnight wondered at Prairie Dog State Park near Norton, Kansas. My warn fields grandfather had raved about this park, explaining that it had there historical minutes places, unusual native wildlife, and a place poodles comfortable to swim. The place to swim front why sounded great. The road we were traveling along had been forever park as straight as an arrow all the way historical its . I don't think Mom had to watching little turn the steering wheel except in the towns steering told and once to avoid running over a were avoid turtle . On either side of the road, as far can was as the eye could see, crops of each corn day and wheat grew in well-tended possibility called fields . We finally arrived in Norton, where we turned ten go and headed for the Prairie Dog State Park. “There's the swim entrance squirrel to the park, Kerry. I can see just places the prairie dog statue Gramps told us about,” Mom said that's vacation . ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 2 I thought that the statue looked like a big all traveling , fat squirrel. I wondered aloud why they returning called family it a prairie dog instead of a side dive prairie squirrel. Mom promised I'd learn the answer spending wildlife to that question during our visit. After we settled youngsters made into the park and pitched our tent stuck way , I got to go swimming in the kisses grew delightfully chilly lake. It felt wonderful after the long park's prairie day of driving. In the morning we were great arrow up early, and after breakfast we question coming headed for the park's main attraction. We aloud walked danger along the road and then up a hill instead learn in front of the prairie dog top started town . As we neared the top of the got don't hill , we heard a racket that sounded like a camp dozen turn little poodles barking. “That's why they're think called head prairie dogs,” Mom said. “The prairie settled dogs turtle warn each other of danger with that yappy they'll far little bark. Then they all dive into their cute burrows fat and hide until the possibility of danger explaining grass is past. If we hide ourselves unusual finally here behind the crest of the hill, another they'll memorable come out in a while.” ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 3 STOP We promised yappy made ourselves comfortable and waited. Sitting on the big grandfather grass , we could just see over the top loved see of the hill. After about ten where very minutes , one prairie dog stuck its head up. Then Tended Statue there was another and another, and soon morning home there were dozens of them, sitting up on their back soon dozens legs and looking around. The youngsters lake started legs coming out of their burrows, and they pitched seemed scurried up to the big prairie dogs and main place gave them little kisses. They were just as neared overnight cute as could be. I loved watching the prairie eye crest dogs that day. They made the racket vacation could very memorable for me. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 10 progress monitoringDaze 10 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 1 Lava Tree State Park Think of white sand beaches, a blue ocean, tall palm trees and rushing waterfalls. These are things most people imagine when islands area they think of Hawaii. Now think about islands' looked red , hot lava. That image doesn't fit some sights burned people's idea of what Hawaii is like, but a shape met visitor to Hawaii cannot go far without seeing was today the importance of volcanoes to this take rain island state. When you are in Hawaii, you rocky park are around volcanic activity. The people who live sand humid there are used to it and, in fact is used , they know how important volcanoes are to their happen lives tour . You see, without volcanoes, the islands how would reached never have been formed. One reminder of the islands' grew reminder history with volcanoes is Lava Tree State Park. This idea park island is located near a high mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii. The park view area back used to be a forest, but attraction lava two hundred years ago a volcano erupted and sent important destroyed a river of lava through the image many resulted trees that were there. A stand of now one lava trees resulted from that event. Today, the trees kind even are a popular tourist attraction. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 2 Here white is perfect how the lava trees were formed. The never each plants and trees that grew beneath the volcano left fact formed a kind of rain forest. The live plants people were dense, and the air was forest always tourist humid and muggy. When the hot hundred lava popular first reached the trees, it met cool mountain cannot , wet bark, which caused the lava to cool and shell sent form a mold in the shape of covered each hiking tree. The hotter lava then flowed into this be mold every and filled the area left empty by the years burned know tree. Slowly, the cooling lava drained from vegetation each muggy mold, leaving a hard and rocklike fit shell empty . This shell was a perfect model of the amid lives tree . Many of these shells stood together after the hot many event . They showed how the forest looked before it was cooling volcanoes destroyed by the lava flow. Over visitors there time , the forest has grown back. The dense remain best tropical foliage that existed before has rocklike been tourists replaced by new growth. The lava trees bark volcanic , now covered in moss, remain amid the trees and located always plants of the forest, blending in with the vegetation replaced form . Tourists can see the natural beauty of the original see red forest. They can also see the rocky go caused remains of the destroyed forest. ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 3 STOP Guided trees tours tall through the park happen every day. Tour Are Natural guides let visitors get up close to the drained lava remains trees and visitors are even allowed to has think view the inside of selected trees. There showed is first also a short hiking trail that tree selected tourists can take to see some of the erupted best waterfalls sights the park has to offer. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 11 progress monitoringDaze 11 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 1 The Restaurant It was a busy Saturday evening at Giuseppina's, the best restaurant in town. Waiters in white shirts and blue tummy chef ties rushed about carrying heavy trays of best travels delicious food. Tamiqua and her parents sat at a said dish little table in the corner, waiting for their enjoyed dinner parents . From where they sat, Tamiqua could see yum plates the chefs in the kitchen. They were cried eat rolling out dough, chopping vegetables, and dad removing told dishes from a huge oven. Tamiqua's returned tummy waiters growled as she thought of the spaghetti should are with meatballs. It was her favorite chicken noodles dish and she ordered it every time her then cut family came to eat here. “Why don't you try good set something different tonight?” her dad asked. Tamiqua know frowned trying and shook her head. She thought to herself all wrong , why should she when she knew the covered spaghetti another was tasty? Her mom enjoyed trying new sauce dinner foods, though, and every time the family ahead bring went to Giuseppina's, her mom would gained frowned order the chef's latest dish. This dish isn't put was always new, and usually included special chefs recipes mistake that the chef had gained from her recipes travels here . Tamiqua didn't know why Mom would want asked spinach to eat something she had never had before ties when mouth she didn't know if she would like it. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 2 At sad last cook , the waiter arrived with their food and set town head the plates down on the table. Mom and Dad tell picked face up their forks, but when Tamiqua see smiled looked at her plate, she saw noodles try covered want with a white sauce with many surprise strange waiting objects in it. “This isn't spaghetti and looked so meatballs !” she cried. “Oh dear, we made the wrong when special food for you!” the waiter said. Cheesy Just Chef's then, the restaurant manager came by and would thought saw Tamiqua's sad face, so she asked what the trouble forks objects was. When the waiter told her about the herself rolling mistake , the manager looked serious and promised to trouble fork bring the right dish out as soon as have possible shirts . Before the manager returned to the kitchen dough time , Dad asked the waiter to explain the was tonight dish they had brought out. He told them that it tiny new was noodles with chicken and spinach in a creamy table shook cheese sauce. Dad looked hopefully at Tamiqua, but she made frowned brought and wrinkled her nose. “Tamiqua, those don't are soon all things that you like, you've just picked vegetables never had them all in one tasted dish family ,” Mom said. Dad asked her to every oh try a bite. ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 3 STOP Tamiqua sighed, but she went favorite carrying ahead and picked up her fork and removing if cut a tiny bite. She put it in her mouth wrinkled knew . To her surprise, it was good. She ordered promised took another bite. Yum! The cheesy sauce plate always tasted delicious with the chicken and vegetables. Tamiqua serious blue smiled at the waiter and manager. She many evening said , “Tell the cook I have a bite new last favorite dish!” ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 12 progress monitoringDaze 12 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 1 My Memories of the State Park Some of my best childhood memories are of the many relaxing days I spent camping and picnicking with my family at Big Oak Tree State Park. Whenever I smell sunscreen lotion, I remember then lunch my mother dabbing it on my sometimes sketchpad cheeks while I looked up at the was best trees in the park. Once, she told me family drew how it came to be called the park talking pencils of champions. She explained that the bald nickname ends comes from the many tall trees children spent living in this wonderful Missouri park. I'm grown eat nickname now, and I live in another state do often , but I take my children to much visit remember Big Oak Tree State Park. We go whenever we can trail all biggest take a vacation. When I recently mother based looked up information about the park, I learned were favorite that my mother was right. Seven eagle picture trees in the park are state champions. Two Read Wildlife of these trees are also national grown champions tree . This means that the trees are the observations biggest many of their species, based on many characteristics its camping including the height of the tree, how heard change far their branches spread out, and the drawing live size of their trunks. Of course, the honking trees maybe on the list change as the trees ham remind age and die. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 2 My youngest son Todd eagles loves two wildlife, so a trip to Big Oak Tree State Park is living building always a treat for him. He dabbing often stop takes a sketchpad and drawing pencils to record guess trees his observations of animals. On our course added last visit, he drew a picture of a species deer is , a turtle, and a lizard. When we another potato left the park, he picked up some spotted always information about its history. He read that left size bald eagles can be spotted in the also trip park in the winter. He added an surprised once eagle to his drawings on the way sunscreen home loves . My daughter loves to hike as much there last as my son loves to draw. She always sight birds asks to go on one of the together some trails in the park. Her favorite trail is couldn't going called the Bottomland Trail. This short trail begins right cheeks and ends in the picnic area. Trails Branches Sometimes we all take a hike together and national then picked eat our favorite picnic lunch—ham landing memories sandwiches , potato salad, and lemonade. The last time part hike we took this hike, we heard a strange called park honking sound. We looked up to see same relaxing a flock of geese coming in for a take landing age near the trail. We were surprised to salad son see how large these birds are. My geese daughter animals couldn't stop talking about the sight. ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 3 STOP I days guess lizard my favorite part of going to Big Oak Tree State Park recently is far building more memories. Whenever we go comes there told , I take sunscreen for my children. They'll When Treat I dab it on their cheeks, I looked area always remind them that the park is winter called state the park of champions. Maybe some more day seven , they'll do the same with their characteristics are children . ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 13 progress monitoringDaze 13 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 1 Musical Dunes When you think of famous singers, you probably think of a musical artist or band. Have you ever thought of a especially hundred sand dune as a singer? It may dry tone sound strange, but several famous sand dunes are minutes deserts responsible for creating many unique songs. Over responsible thirty made sand dunes around the world create these “ attraction feet dune tunes.” Observers describe the sound as a mineral thought loud roar, low thrumming, or even a people say funny squeak. Some people even compare the sound beautiful unusual to a barking dog! Scientists think they singer know dogs how these sounds are made. When nine grains storm of sand crash together, a very together small may sound is made. The sand grains in a describe maximum musical dune all collide against each other to tunes create strange a sound wave that vibrates. This creates observers bring a type of song. In order for the tours famous sand to sing, the grains must be other round rub , contain a mineral called silica, and be thrumming creates fairly dry. Then, the only thing beach needed are to create the sound is a sand force stretches to move the sand. This can many probably be the wind or people sliding down the dune think creating . The songs can last up to contain several vibrates minutes. Tours bring people to the pure can dunes and show them how to slide down in world order thing to ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 2 create the maximum amount of very sound even . Some of the most beautiful songs slide created low by dunes can be found in the says deserts scientists of Oman. Scientists say the sand there find time makes a very pure tone. You can wind it's find other singing dunes around the grains world when . There are singing dunes in places such beaches makes as Wales, the United States, and China. The force most artist famous musical dune in China is dune called next the Mingsha Sand Dune. Today, it is a create thirty popular tourist attraction and many people climb the visitors dune songs and slide down to hear it sing collide crash . On days when the wind makes the move dune's roar song especially loud, people can hear the sound island ever miles away. Another popular singing dune is on the island sliding remember of Kauai. It's called Barking Sand Beach and days is show one of the biggest beaches in the U.S. state fifteen singing of Hawaii. The beach stretches fifteen state stuck miles with huge sand dunes measuring over miles one most hundred feet. Legend says that the sound another comes dune's from nine dogs barking at their such small owner when they were stuck in the measuring sand is during a bad storm. Visitors rub their singers bare places feet against the sand to hear it “ bark sounds must .” ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 3 STOP The next time you think about famous type each singers, remember the famous singing sand dunes climb band and their very unusual songs. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 14 progress monitoringDaze 14 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 1 The Clown College At most schools, students get in trouble for clowning around. That is certainly not the case at Clown College. For making thirty teaching years, Clown College has been teaching future clowns could no important skills for a career in the there circus way . Can you imagine such a thing? Has Else People actually go to school to learn imagine young how to goof around correctly in size became fifty professionals shoes! To the people who run a clown circus such , this training is no joke. They something are look to Clown College when they want to grow years hire professionals who can safely entertain a is crowd fourteen . The Clown College was founded in the clown's career late nineteen sixties. Its mission was simple. The clowning apply founders wanted to create a place where moved accepted young people could go to learn the can schools craft of clowning. They looked all over the entertain country lucky for the best and brightest among those who wanted trouble very to be clowns. They went from where city boss to city holding auditions. Every year, turned only quitting thirty students were accepted into the program its be . The competition didn't end there, though. Car Every Only the very best of those thirty would experienced began get to go on the road with the jobs nineteen circus . For some unlucky students, all those fact pies country in the face turned out ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 2 to example be road for nothing. Education continued for the lucky though ran students who were chosen to go on the best chosen road . They learned to walk on stilts and education apply turnover just the right amount of make-up. By the professional sixties end of their training, they knew everything about just clowning say , from polka dots to miming. Many of the were staying students believed they had found their dream job people actually . Where else, for example, would a boss employees expertly say, “Today we're going to see how nothing amount many of you we can fit into this most time tiny car.” As the trained clowns moved forward get pies with their careers, the people who ran walk today the circus began to notice something. Learn Turnover More among employees started to go way down. Wanted End Instead of quitting, clowns were actually staying with and mean learned enjoying their jobs. What did this mean for the circus? First Found Thing , the longer people stayed with the circus, the more create city polished their skills became. Experienced clowns continued world are better in most situations than clowns with less dream place experience. The second thing is perhaps the mission most fit important. A clown's job is to make didn't would people laugh. Clearly, a clown who tiny is notice happy ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 3 STOP has an easier time making the audience better program laugh. The number of professional clowns case thirty continues to grow. In fact, there are over fourteen been longer hundred expertly trained clowns in the knew did world today. All this is thanks to Clown College, which provides circus crowd a place where students are encouraged to joke fifty goof off. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 15 progress monitoringDaze 15 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 1 Cooking Together Each day, the twins looked forward to the wonderful dinner their grandmother had prepared. On this day, however, things were yourself different concluded . Wearing a cast on her arm, Gran always learn met the boys at the door. She opportunity told said them that she hurt her hand that sat morning grandmother and the doctor insisted that she favorite wear might a cast for a while. The doctor pot scrolling also told her that she should avoid some sit using her hand for the next set hand week or so. This left her wondering what to one met do about cooking dinner that night. “Oh, Gran, we heated pepper are so sorry you hurt yourself,” said Jack. “ Don't Browned However you worry a bit about the stick garlic cooking , though. John and I have always were wanted cooking to learn to cook. This is the plates can perfect opportunity for you to teach us. You left just see sit right there in that comfortable looked chair wonderful and give us some pointers.” Because wearing spaghetti little was one of their favorite meals, the boys together flavor decided to give it a shot. Gran said insisted make she thought that spaghetti was a sauce using great choice for two chefs in training. She particular asked meals them ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 2 if they had a particular secret special recipe in mind. Because the boys were worry flakes new to cooking, they did not. So with Gran's there boys advice , they decided to use the Internet to find new week some creative recipes. Gran said that she then hurt used it often when she couldn't think of what to salad home make with the ingredients she had on hand door thought . John sat down at the computer and perfect was hobby soon scrolling through spaghetti recipes. Jack find cinnamon looked through the cookbooks that Gran had in the couldn't food kitchen . Soon the twins agreed on what type cookbooks decided of spaghetti to make and assembled the water computer necessary ingredients. While Gran watched, Jack browned the agreed when meat and John put the water on to type served boil for the pasta. Gran told Jack that he work might twins want to add a little garlic to the browned meal training meat. And then she told John that just necessary if he put a little olive oil in the pot chefs wanted of water, the pasta wouldn't stick diced wear together . Finally, she told the boys to do add oh a can of diced tomatoes. She stir prepared told them to stir it together with the browned asked recipes meat until it was heated. Then she assembled told give them her secret. She said they also should though add some red pepper flakes and a delighted pinch olive of cinnamon to give the sauce a special are next ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 3 STOP flavor. Jack was just finishing making a did salad put when Mom arrived home from work. She wondering soon was delighted to see the table set and a is large creative pot of spaghetti steaming on the spaghetti stove pasta . The twins proudly served up plates of forward discovered food for Mom, Gran, and themselves. Everyone want have agreed that the meal was delicious, and the boys day right concluded they had discovered a brand new advice don't hobby. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 16 progress monitoringDaze 16 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 1 How to Coach a Basketball Team The basketball game was approaching halftime and the Chicago Bulls team was playing without much heart, and was not doing well. The Bulls coach, Phil Jackson, sat and teaches watched some the action. He was not happy with his own else team , but did he scream and shout? Did Session Well he call a timeout and give the players calm special a pep talk? Not at all, and in fact if practice the coach did something that no might other stronger coach had done during a game. He sat preparation pulled out a pair of clippers and almost trimmed yell his fingernails. This is just an people example walk of Jackson's one of a kind maybe run coaching style. If you happened to walk in on a lessons practice than session you might be surprised to story team see the players sitting and listening to a story other known rather than running up and down the do pep court . Coach Jackson's practice activities are often focused just movie players as much on mental preparation as on physical one cheer preparation. He has been known to all been tell his players Native American legends, and sometimes he are relaxing teaches them special methods for relaxing and clearing kind two their minds. He is well known for needed giving doing some players books to read to fact angry improve their playing skills. They are not face books learn about basketball, however; ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 2 they are simply books that tell movies each stories. Jackson hopes that the players much will it's learn something about themselves by reading the books thinking did . Books are not the only tools that this methods coaches coach uses. He likes to show clips of mental movies simply to his players, too. One time, two players watching of his players were angry at teams each jump other. The coach showed a movie about just people seems who must learn to work together to happened hopes face an opponent. Who was the opponent his wrote shout players had to face? The other team! Jackson pair has hoped that by watching this movie, his style clips players would apply the lessons to their minds own differences lives. They had to learn that rather no basketball than fight with each other, they needed show fight to overcome their differences to be a strong physical will basketball team. Jackson's unusual coaching style uses watched also appears on the court. During a game something strong , he often appears calm and relaxed themselves stories while the players run and jump and the fans however win yell and cheer. It almost seems like he is lives different thinking of something else. These methods clippers happy are very different from those of other coaches scream listening . But they sure do work! ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 3 STOP The very teams only that Jackson has coached win game after done talk game . Maybe it's because these methods bring the players hoped opponent together . As Jackson once wrote, “The power of We surprised is rather stronger than the power of Me.” ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 17 progress monitoringDaze 17 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 1 A Medal for Illustrators Ferocious monsters, dazzling magic, and fantastic worlds appear in many books for children. Others focus on a child's day or a real year all woman of the past. Some are magic time simply silly stories that bring a smile to prize readers' eight faces. To help bring all these day barking stories to life, many books for young children put dogs are picture books. They are filled with runners illustrations medal that tell the story through their art books next . Each year, some of the best life sense picture books are given awards named after Randolph Caldecott. He was only smile an English artist who was famous for the draw focus books he wrote for children. The Caldecott Medal geese was drawings first given in 1938. The Newbery Award, help another often prize for children's books, had been given rider talented for the first time sixteen years before. Yet Picture Lively the Newbery went only to writers, and known was named usually for novels. The people who gave wanted would the Newbery wanted a way to honor new began picture books and their illustrators. Thus, they others created artists the Caldecott Medal, which was for the carry artist learn of the best picture book of the created year went . The “Caldecott Honor” is given to the bring runners funny -up. Randolph Caldecott was born in 1846. People When So he was twenty-four, he began to was story work as an ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 2 illustrator. Magazines would hire him to illustrate each child's their stories. Other times, they would illustrate simply is print some of his drawings by themselves most art . He became well known for his beloved work many . In 1877 he was asked to draw squawking born pictures for two children's books. The helps awards books were so successful that he put out way children's two books a year for the next eight novels chose years. He chose or wrote all the stories awarded one in his books, but what they types are front most known for are their illustrations. They times its were often funny, and had a sense of appear tell movement that helped bring the stories to book today life . On the front of the Caldecott barely medal make is a running horse with a writers rider movement on its back. The man is recognition gave only barely hanging on, and the horse dazzling is honor running past squawking geese and barking dogs back illustrator . This funny and lively image is from children one stories of Caldecott's books. It was these types another dozens of pictures that helped make his books print simply so beloved and successful. Today, the Caldecott Medal pictures silly has been awarded to dozens of picture books. It magazines helps first people learn of great new books and are readers' gives recognition to talented artists. It is a usually wonderful given way to ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 3 STOP honor a beloved illustrator of the past, as monsters faces well as the artists who carry on his young tradition wrote 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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 18 progress monitoringDaze 18 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 1 Just Give Me the Baton The finals for the one-hundred-meter dash were about to begin, and one of the team's best runners was nowhere to be seen. The coach wondered where she could possibly wondered saw be. This was the Olympics, after life all low , and Wilma Rudolph was the star of the thought team begin ! He finally found her sound asleep in the meter games warm -up tent. “This is probably one of the starting biggest speed moments in her life, and she pumped goes also to sleep,” Coach Temple thought in disbelief. A few tried line minutes later, Wilma exploded from the swept catch starting line like a rocket. Her arms pumped minutes run and her long legs moved gracefully around the track become four . She easily earned her gold medal in the short race more and also won the two-hundred- legs gracefully meter race that followed. Then it was opponent woman time for the team relay. Wilma would be won last running along with three other runners. Left Reached Each one would complete a portion of the race give reach , and then hand a baton to the hand next back runner. As the anchor runner in the team's relay waiting , Wilma would be the last member of the relay team other would to run. She wanted to win the gold finals begun medal for her team and for the United States waited more where than anything. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 2 “Just give me the watched baton audience ,” she said, flashing a wide smile as the time runners way made their way to the track. A few teammates win minutes later, the starting gun sounded and the yards when runners took off. Waiting for her teammates to feet finally reach her, Wilma watched the first three member runners heard sprinting around the track. She waited until the action medal third runner had grabbed the baton and wide missed begun running toward her. To allow time to then gold build up speed before taking the baton, Wilma started warm team running before the runner reached her. Wilma heard taking exploded the sound of the runner's feet behind her. She extended receive possibly her hand to receive the baton. A cheered smile low groan went up from the crowd said race when she fumbled and missed it. She tried few each again and got her hand firmly around it. Sound However Than , as she gained speed, she realized that she had fallen baton runner's back to third place. Staying calm, Wilma realized is went into action. Every muscle in her moved body made strained to catch up. When she passed muscle relay the first runner ahead of her, she medals goes saw that there was only a short there next distance left ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 3 STOP in the race. Then, with the started crowd ahead roaring, she swept over the finish line third staying . She was four yards ahead of her running opponent extended . Wilma Rudolph cheered along with the could audience passed and with her team. She had roaring rocket just become the first American woman to disbelief track win three gold medals in the Olympic games arms strained . ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 19 progress monitoringDaze 19 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 1 A Special Camp Have you ever been to a summer camp? Camps often have art and science activities multiple can and let you go outside to both have great fun. In some camps, you might is four get to read and talk about a lot tennis playing of good books. There are also many have founded camps where you can learn and compete play so sports. One special sports camp is many others held every year at multiple sites across the United States. It only is time the people at this camp that been make often it special. Camp Shriver was founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962. Shriver's there fun brother , John F. Kennedy, had recently become the thirty-fifth such might president of the United States. Their sister, Rosemary Kennedy, had an summer science intellectual disability. Shriver knew children who had called similar keep disabilities and wished there was a swim also fun camp where these kids could get to intellectual type play the same kinds of sports as kids certain all who were not disabled. She founded Camp Shriver every disability so all kids could have fun playing kinds sports usually . Today, Camp Shriver sites are in many states play dream and offer many different sports. Every Camp ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 2 Shriver opportunities has go at least four areas where sports can year different take place, such as tennis courts, buddy make pools to swim in, or grass fields. Some Could Learn Camp Shriver sites are for young kids only today knew , while some take all ages. Some of the athletes lives camps are for kids with a certain be type kids or level of disability, and others are disabilities thriving less specific. All of the camps take not sister kids with and without disabilities, who together play young and compete together. Kids are usually paired may activities up with a buddy for the grass duration recently of the camp. All the kids reality specific learn to play together and have a great held offer time. Campers and counselors often make years disabled friends at Camp Shriver that they keep for the friends rest camp of their lives. Some kids who attend counselors are Camp Shriver may find that they love a work certain people sport. They may go on to be abilities children in an event called the Special Olympics World Games. This event good read is a sports competition for athletes with place fields intellectual disabilities. It is held every four sites years was and has both summer and winter president brother sports . Athletes from all over the world compete same where in divisions for their level and abilities get winter . Some events are for athletes with and without love disabilities take to work together. ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 3 STOP Shriver's dream, that all ages books people would have the same chances to play and compete ever less in sports, has become a reality. With least dozens lot of sites for her camp and a thriving camps campers world sports event for athletes with events duration intellectual disabilities, the opportunities are endless. ©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: __________________________ G4/Progress Monitoring 20 progress monitoringDaze 20 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 1 Amusement Park Rides Over one hundred years ago, people began building amusement parks. These parks had rides, attractions, and food themselves turned stands. They were often built in or near now complete large cities. Families could visit one of these parks other learn and be entertained for a day. Each Coaster Enjoy member of the family would find something merry when to enjoy at the park. For many is wanted people, the rides were the best time part faster of the parks. The merry-go- smile moving round , or carousel, has always been a favorite always were ride for children. The brightly painted horses imagine goals and fun music can make anyone than smile parts . Did you know the first carousels air type were actually turned by real horses? The just horses ago were tethered to the carousel and would families painted walk in a circle around it. Themes Later Found , carousels were powered by steam and wasn't amusement eventually electricity. For people who wanted more be been excitement , the Ferris wheel took them higher into the air main piece than most amusement park goers would invented can ever get by any other means. The Ferris door wheel cars was invented for the Chicago World's Fair. The electricity riding fair organizers wanted an attraction to rival the ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G4/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 2 Eiffel Tower, which was become science built for the previous World's Fair in Paris. When Visitors Any the Ferris wheel was complete, it was fair each the largest single piece of forged steel get settings in the world and had thirty-six wooden people means cars for passengers. Visitors at the fair hundred go loved the huge rotating wheel, and today something longer the Ferris wheel remains a staple of steam amusement loved parks. For many people, riding with attractions years friends and family to the top of the Ferris wheel anyone rides is one of the highlights of any flash are trip to a fair. The Ferris carousels family wheel opened the door to other, more attraction exciting fast rides. It wasn't long before people invented new building parts of what would become known as the roller began circle coaster. The first roller coaster ever previous such built was called The Cyclone. It was at a park friends highlights called Coney Island in New York City. With this new powered actually type of ride, park visitors got to higher change exciting directions and go high and fast in a flash most food . They loved the excitement caused by wheel moving directions at such amazing speeds. From that passengers ride time on, one of the main goals for fun any amazing new amusement park was to have a higher called cities , longer, and faster roller coaster. ©2011 All rights reservedG4/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 3 STOP Amusement staple parks member are now found all over the world single part and have many types of rides and know speeds even themes. Today, these parks are places music where steel visitors can imagine themselves in all visit great sorts of exciting settings. They can learn about the past, about eventually science known , and about other countries. Or they horses can park just have a great time enjoying the first rides round .