Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA,™ Lexile,® and Reading Recovery™ are provided in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide. Our Garden Genre Realistic fiction Comprehension Skills and Strategy Author’s Purpose Plot Predict Scott Foresman Reading Street 3.2.4 ISBN 0-328-13347-7 ì<(sk$m)=bd ehf< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U by Jessica Quilty illustrated by Nicole Wong Reader Response 1. What was the author’s purpose in describing what the lot had looked like before the kids started working on it? 2. Now that the garden has been opened up to the people of the city, what do you predict will happen to it? 3. The word crops is used as a noun in this story. It can also be used as a verb. Find out what the word crops means when it is a verb. Write the word crops in a complete sentence using that meaning. 4. If you were Mayor Smith, which rules for using the garden would you make for the people of the city? Write four rules on a web like the one below. Garden Rules by Jessica Quilty illustrated by Nicole Wong Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, Illinois Coppell, Texas • Ontario, California • Mesa, Arizona Every day on the way to school we walked by an empty lot. The grass was overgrown and littered with things people had thrown away. There were pieces of wood, empty bottles and cans, and old tires all over the ground. Years ago there had been a store there, but the store had closed and the building was torn down. Since then, no one had cared for the empty lot. 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

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