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Level 7 ➞ Learn About ➞ Environment
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Non-Fiction Graded Readers
Titles in Level 7
What Do Clothes Cost?
Energy from the Sun
From Plan to Building
Tell Me about the Continents
The Life Cycle of a Frog
How Do Plants Grow?
The Moon
What Does the Referee Do?
Games around the World
Caves
How Do
Plants Grow?
How Do Plants Grow?
Written by Margaret MacDonald
Cover photograph of unearthing potatoes
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ISBN: 978-1-4586-4268-4
Word Count
High-Frequency
Words
274
all, do, from, get, help, if, little, make,
may, no, not, of, out, people, put, that,
their, them, they, too, when, where, will,
with
Vocabulary Words garden, nutrients, pores, sunlight,
vegetables
How Do
Plants Grow?
Picture Dictionary
2
Look at the gardens
near where you live.
Look at all the plants
that grow in a garden.
air
sunlight
soil
water
3
Things That Grow in a Garden
People grow many kinds of plants
in a garden.
People grow plants to eat.
Fruit and vegetables
are plants that people eat.
People grow plants
because they look good.
Grass and flowers
bring colour to a garden.
bushes
fruits
flowers
grass
nuts
Weeds grow in gardens, too.
People take out the weeds.
trees
4
vegetables
weeds
5
How Do Plants Grow?
water
How do plants grow in a garden?
Most garden plants
need four things to grow.
Plants need –
•
Air
•
Sunlight
•
Water
•
Soil
sunlight
leaf
stem
soil
6
flower
air
roots
7
Air
Plants need air to grow.
They get the air they need
through little holes
in their leaves.
These holes are called pores.
If you put a plant
in a place with no air
it will die.
Plants breathe air through
pores in their leaves.
8
9
Sunlight
Plants need sunlight to grow.
When the sun shines on a plant,
the plant’s leaves trap energy
from the sunlight.
They use the sunlight
to make their food.
They use the food
to help them grow.
If you put a plant
in a place with no sunlight,
it cannot make food.
It will die.
10
These flowers use sunlight
to grow.
11
Water
These boys are
watering the garden.
Plants need water
so they can grow.
Plants get water when it rains.
They get water
when someone waters them.
Plants suck up the water in soil.
They suck it up with their roots.
The water goes from the roots
through the stem
to the leaves.
Plants will die without water.
12
13
Soil
Plants need soil to grow.
Plants get water from soil.
But plants need more
than just water to grow.
Plants get food from the soil.
This food is called nutrients.
If a plant cannot get the nutrients
it needs, it will not grow well.
It may die.
These potatoes used nutrients
in soil to help them grow.
14
15
Activity Page
1. Draw a plant that grows
in a garden.
2. Label the parts.
3. Write what it needs to grow.
Do you know
the dictionary words?
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