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GrK-U02-Adapted Assessment Text Pumpkin Circle By: George Levenson This document may be used while showing the book - simply read the revised text instead. Original Version Adapted Version Adapted by SCSD Curriculum Support Team Annegret Schubert - writer The pumpkin seed makes the pumpkin plant, and P. 1-2 Pumpkin seeds make pumpkin plants. the pumpkin plant makes pumpkins. Deep within Pumpkin plants make pumpkins. each pumpkin the air is damp and cool. The walls are lined with teardrop seeds, each one a slippery jewel. Scrape them from their orange cave. Wash away p. 3-4 Pumpkin seeds are inside the pumpkin. squishy mush. Save a few to grow next spring, and Take the seeds out and save them. have a bunch to munch. When the earth is soft and warm, plant those sleeping seeds. In about one week, out they peek, two fresh, young, fat green leaves. p. 5-6 In the spring put the seeds in the soil. Then a little plant with leaves will grow. This garden will be home to many pumpkin cousin. One big pumpkin family, five varieties, each one started from different pumpkin seeds. p. 7-8 Many pumpkins will grow in this garden. Every passing minute awakens each plant, reaching down with silky roots, reaching up to dance. p. 9-10 Every minute more pumpkin leaves start growing. Week by week the backyard patch spreads before your eyes, filling every inch of space with leaves and roots and vines. p. 11-12 Every week, the pumpkin roots and leaves and vine s grow. The plants cover the whole garden. Huge green leaves grow toward the sky, prickly, lush, and wide. They soak up sun and water, and make a shady place to hide. p. 13-14 The plants soak up sun and water, and grow bigger and bigger. They get so big we can hide in them. Twisty tendrils grasp like hands stretching out to p. 15-16 The plants even grow twisty tendrils. cling. They roll down into fancy curls and wind up just like springs. Then, silently as angels, flower buds appear with pointy little collars and gleaming silver hair. p. 17-18 Finally, many little silver flower buds appear. Velvet petals open, brilliant sunlit bowls, delicately fragrant a sign of pumpkin gold! p. 19-20 The golden pumpkin flowers open. Along come the bees floating through the air, buzzing, gathering, guzzling, zooming p. 21-22 Here come the bees, feeding on the flowers. GrK-U02-Adapted Assessment Text Level A 1 GrK-U02-Adapted Assessment Text everywhere. Butterflies and spiders, grasshoppers and snails, explore the pumpkin garden as they travel private trails. p. 23-24 Sometimes there are butterflies and spiders. Sometimes there are grasshoppers and snails in the pumpkin patch. A hundred days of weather. A hundred days of care. Pumpkins climbing up the fence. Pumpkins everywhere! p. 25-26 Then the pumpkins grow and grow. They grow for 100 days. Help those pumpkins sit up straight so they grow p. 27-28 The pumpkins grow round. You can up round and proud. Scratch on pumpkin names so write your name on it. Watch them grow! It's fun they stand out in the crowd. to do! Or just sit back. Enjoy the view. Pumpkins grow because pumpkins know exactly what to do. When summer turns to fall, green turns to gold. Shorter days bring chilly nights and pumpkin vines grow old. p. 29-30 When fall comes, the pumpkins change color. They change from green to orange. Now comes the harvest. Pluck treasures from the vine. Clear away lifeless leaves. Hide the rags of time. p. 31-32 Hi pumpkins! You are great! Make up pumpkin faces, add bright candlelight. p. 33-34 Some kids make pumpkin faces and light Set them on the door step, let them flicker through them with a candle. Put them by your door. the night. Gather up the finished fruit, ripe and fully grown. Tidy up the garden. Make a cozy pumpkin home. p. 35-36 Then the pumpkins get rotten. They turn into soil. We can b sure of this: It’s a circle without end. Its pumpkin seeds to pumpkins, to pumpkin seeds again. p. 37-38 Then we can get more seeds from pumpkins and grow more pumpkins. Salute the pumpkin circle! Make way for pumpkin p. 39-40 It's like a circle: First seeds in the soil, cheer. Behold the pumpkin miracle. We’re then plants, then pumpkins, then soil and seeds pumpkin millionaires. again. Starting all over again. GrK-U02-Adapted Assessment Text Level A 2 GrK-U02-Adapted Assessment Text GrK-U02-Adapted Assessment Text Level A 3