Reader Lights Out! by Maxine Peters Illustrated by John Kastner Genre Fiction Build Background Access Content Extend Language Inventing Working Together Experiments Antonyms Labels in Pictures Definition in Context Scott Foresman Reading Street 1.5.6 ì<(sk$m)=bebcgf< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U ISBN 0-328-14126-7 Talk About It 1. How did it help Thomas Edison to have other people work with him? Lights Out! 2. What do the girls think about Thomas Edison? Write About It by Maxine Peters 3. On a separate sheet of paper, write a list of Illustrated by John Kastner places where light bulbs are used for light. Examples: at schools, in streets Extend Language Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. The opposite of dark is light. Light and dark are antonyms. Do you know the antonyms of these words? out long wet ISBN: 0-328-14126-7 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. Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V034 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, Illinois Coppell, Texas • Sacramento, California • Mesa, Arizona lamp light bulb The light bulb went out! “Mama, Mama,” cried the girls. “It is dark! We cannot see!” Mama answered, “I’ll change the light bulb.” 2 Shaneka wants to know about light bulbs. “Who made the very first light bulb?” she now asks. “A very smart person invented it!” answers Tanya. “And a very smart person improved it,” says Mama. 3 Mama tells the