Happy Birthday, Fun Facts Fireworks were invented in China about one thousand years ago. AMERICA ! The first fireworks were yellow. In 1776 people wrote with pens made from bird feathers. Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Recall and Retell Text Features Glossary Captions Illustrations Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14801-6 ì<(sk$m)=beiab < +^-Ä-U-Ä-U by Natalie Goldstein In this book you will read about the Fourth of July! You will learn why this holiday is important. Vocabulary freedom President citizen Write to It! H appy Birthday, People do many special things on the AMERICA ! Fourth of July. What do you do on the Fourth of July? Write one sentence about your ideas. Write your sentence on another sheet of paper. by Natalie Goldstein ISBN: 0-328-14801-6 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd) Opener: Corbis; 1 Brand X Pictures; 2 The Granger Collection, New York; 3 The Granger Collection, New York; 4 The Granger Collection, New York; 5 Corbis; 6 ©Comstock Inc.; E