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Beating the Frost

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Emerald (Levels 25-26)
  • Year: d-three
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Economics, Family, Natural disasters, Overcoming obstacles, Responsibility
  • Genre: Realistic fiction
  • Strategy/Skills: Exploring text structure, Determining cause and effect, Monitoring for meaning
  • Page Count: 32
  • Reading Level: 25
  • Item Code: 200232
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Reader Description

Since they lost half their cherry crop in the big frost last year, money has been tight for the Krissler family ... And it looks like their problems are about to get worse.

After you have completed the Reader

The author has used descriptive verbs to explain the things that are happening in the story. Find these verbs in the story and work out what they mean: • yabbering (page 11) • plummet (page 12) • withered (page 23) Now write a synonym for each word.

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