i Passage 1.2 Word Count: 145 Where Do Frogs Come From? 5 Frogs come from small eggs, The black things on this plant are frog 18 eggs- 19 Pop! Pop! A.tadpole pops out of an egg. Pop, pop, pop! Lots and 33 lots of tadpoles pop out, A tadpole has to swim fast or a fish could eat 49 it! 50 The tadpole has a long tail and a big body, It looks for plants in the 66 pond, It eats the plants and grows a lot, 75 It grows two strong back legs, They help the tadpole kick fast and 88 swim. 89 It grows two small front legs, too, The tadpole is now a frog that has 104 a tail, 106 Now the tadpole is a big strong frog, Its long tail is gone, so it can 122 hop. 123 Hop, hop! Plop, plop! 127 The frog is fast. It eats lots of bugs. The bugs are not as fat as the. 144 frog! 145 Harcourt Trophies, Pages 86-98
Passage 1.3 Oral Reading Fluency Recording Form 'It's Sports Day," said Mr, York. "Oh, good!" said Jan. Try Your Best Word Count: "Oh, no!" said Ann. 'I don't think I'm very good at sports," "Just try your best, Ann," said Mr. York. "It's time for you to kick, Ann," said Mr, York. 'Oh, no!" said Ann. "What a kick!" said Mort. "You helped us score." "See, Ann?" said Mr. York. 'You can do it," "Next you will climb the rope," said Mr. York. "Oh, no!" said Ann. 'Good job, Ann!" said Mr. York. "Now it's time to run a race." 'We need one more to play," said Jan, "Can you be on our team, Mr, York?" asked Ann. 'Oh, no!" said Mr. York. 'I don't think I can run very fast," "Just try your best!" said Ann. 'You are right, Ann" said Mr, York. "I'll just try my best!" Mr. York started to run, Just then he saw a big frog. He ran very, very fast! "Run, Mr. York!" called Mort. 'Go, Mr. York!" yelled Ann. 'I did my best!" said Mr. York. "Yes, Mr, York," said Ann, 'You and the frog did your best!" Harcourf Trophies, Pages 1 12-126
1 Passage 1.4 Word Count: 125 I Am a Butterfly Can you see me on the plant? I'm a little butterfly egg. It's time for me to hatch. Now I'm a caterpillar! Wind fills the air. I hang onto a plant so I don't fall. Lots of animals live around here. I see a bug and a frog. Lots of animal homes are here, too. I see a nest and a web. Rain falls. It plips and plops. I drink the small drops, This plant is my food. I need food so I can grow. I eat and eat, I can't stop. Chomp! Chomp! I look for a spot to rest. Soon I will shed my skin. At last I am a chrysalis. I'm an inch long. Harcourt Trophies Book 1.3, Pages 12-21
Passage 1.5 Word Count: The Fox and the Stork Long ago there was a fox who lived in the forest. Fox like to play tricks on his friends. One morning, Fox rowed his boat around the pond. He saw his friend Stork. 'Would you like to come to my house for dinner?" Fox asked. "How kind of you to ask!" said Stork. "Yes, I would like that." The next day, Stork went to Fox's house for dinner, She tapped on Fox's door with her long bill. "Come in," said Fox. "I made soup!" "Wonderful!" said Stork. 'I like soup!" Fox and Stork sat down to eat. Fox didn't put the soup in a bowl. He served it in a flat dish. Fox felt very smart. Stork couldn't eat from the flat dish, All she could do was dip the tip of her long bill in to the soup. Fox soon slurped it all up! Harcourt Trophies Book 1.3, Pages 149-155
Passage 1,6 Word Count: 122 At Home Around the World 5 All people need shelter. Shelters give us safety and a place to 17 rest. A house is a shelter, 23 A house can be big or small. It can be tall and skinny or low and 39 boxy. What kind of house would you like best? 48 Some houses are new. Other houses are very old. They have been 60 standing in the same spot for years and years, 69 Some houses are for one or two people. Lots of people live in 82 apartment houses! 84 Houses in different parts of the world are different. In hot lands, 96 houses need to keep out the sun and let in a breeze. 108 In frosty lands, houses are shelters from wind and snow. They help 1 20 people keep warm, Harcourt Trophies Book 1.4, Pages 70-75
b Oral Reading Fluency Recording Form Passage 1,7 Word Count: Busy Bee Busy Bee has work to do. She crawls out of her hive. She spreads her wings, Busy Bee is looking for a flower. Busy Bee flies over a stream. She flies past an oak tree and into a field, The field is full of wild flowers. Busy Bee lands on a flower. Each flower holds sweet drops of nectar, Bees make nectar into honey, Nectar and honey are food for bees. Busy Bee laps up the nectar with her long, narrow tongue. She will take it back to the hive, Each flower holds grains of pollen. Flower pollen is food for bees, too, The pollen sticks to Busy Bee's furry body, She brings it to the hive on her two back legs. Harcouti Trophies Book 1.4, Pages 220-225
Passage 1.8 Word Count: 137 How To Be a Nature Detective 'What happened?" a detective says, 'Who was here? Where did he go?" A detective has many ways to find out, One way is to look for the marks someone or something has made - fingerprints, footprints, the tracks made by bike tires, Sometimes a detective finds a hair, a button, a piece of torn clothing. All these things are clues, They help a detective answer these questions: what happened? Who was here? Where did he go? You can be a detective too, a special kind of detective - a nature detective. Nature detectives find tracks and clues that answer these questions: What animal walked here? Where did it go? What did it eat? Where does a nature detective look for clues? Almost anywhere - in a backyard, in the woods, in a city park. Harcourt Trophies Book 1.5, Pages 102-1 05
Passage 1.9 Word Count: 118 The New Bed 3 One day Poppleton decided to buy a new bed. He like his old 16 bed. But he'd had it since he was a boy, Now he wanted a 30 grown-up bed. 32 So Poppleton went to the bed store. 39 "Do you have a bed just right for a pig?" he asked the saleslady, 53 "Hmmm," she said, looking Poppleton over. 59 "Right this way." 62 Poppleton followed the saleslady to the biggest bed in the store. It 74 was vast! It was enormous! "It's just my size!" said Poppleton, 85 He climbed on to test the bed, He lay on his back. He lay on his 101 side. He lay with one leg over the edge, He lay with both legs over 116 the edge. 118 Harcourt Trophies Book 1.5, Pages 160-166
Passage 1.10 Word Count: Sleep Is for Everyone When a horse goes to sleep, its eyelids go down. When a chicken goes to sleep, its eyelids go up. When a snake goes to sleep, its eyes stay open, Snakes have no eyelids. When you go to sleep, which way do your eyelids go? An elephant can sleep standing up, A pigeon sits down when it sleeps, Pigs lie down to sleep. So do dogs, So do you. Sometimes dogs curl up. So do cats. Cows don't. Do you? Like birds and animals, people have to sleep. Some people sleep more than others. Jonathan is only six weeks old. He sleeps most of the time. He only wakes up when he wants to eat - or have his diaper changed. Number of Words Read Correctly (ViCPM) Harcourt Trophies Book 1.5, Pages 190-195