A Reading/Language Arts Program Contributors Time Magazine, Accelerated Reader Students with print disabilities may be eligible to obtain an accessible, audio version of the pupil edition of this textbook. Please call Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic at 1-800-221-4792 for complete information. A Published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Two Penn Plaza, New York, New York 10121. Copyright © 2009 by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, network storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-0-02-198804-4/1, Bk. 1 ISBN-10: 0-02-198804-8/1, Bk. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (027/043) 11 10 09 08 07 A Reading/Language Arts Program Program Authors Donald R. Bear Janice A. Dole Jana Echevarria Jan E. Hasbrouck Scott G. Paris Timothy Shanahan Josefina V. Tinajero Unit 1 THEME: We Are Special Talk About It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Can Pat Jump? Words to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Pam and Sam Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 by Nancy Tafuri Our Best Days Social Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Writing: Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 THEME: Ready, Set, Move! Talk About It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Yes, I Can! Words to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 I Can! Can You? Rhyming Story . . . . . . . 44 by Cathy Roper, illustrated by Lorinda Bryan Cauley Run! Jump! Swim! Science . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Writing: Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 THEME: Growing Up Talk About It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 I Am a Big Kid Words to Know .