Friends Around the World

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Friends Around the World Level H Leveled Reader

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Correlation LEVELH

Fountas &P innell H

Reading Recovery 13 –14

DRA 14

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Follow the sun around the world, and find new friends in new places.

Some are like you, and some are different.

But they all love to play and sing.

I am Chang-Yong,

and I am ten.

My family lives in a city apartment in South Korea.

I like to study science in school.

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I play ball with my friends after school.

For dress-up, I wear a shiny silk jacket.

My favorite food is barbecued beef called bulgogi (bul-go-gee).

Jessica is my name, and I am an Aboriginal Australian.

I am six, and my brother is four.

We live with my mother

and grandmother.

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My mother works as a cook.

I love to throw a boomerang and watch kangaroos hop around.

I am Natasha, and I am seven.

My home is an apartment

in Moscow, Russia.

I like ballet dancing.

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In winter, I wear a fur hat and coat.

I make snow houses and angels.

I love to eat pancakes called bliny (blee-nee).

I live in Tanzania,

and Manka(mah-n-ka-ah) is my name. We live in

a wooden hut with a grass roof. My father takes care of our cattle.

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I help carry water from the well.

I like to wear my pretty beaded collar.

I make toys out of soft clay.

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I am called Kipanik (kee-pa-nik),

and I am an Inuit.

I live in northern Canada where it is cold and snowy.

My dogs pull me on

my sled.

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How are you like these children?

How are you different? You, too, can be part of this worldwide friendship circle.

Do you want to join?

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I like to play ice hockey.

My dad and his friends hunt for caribou.

I like caribou meat with ketchup.

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GLOSSARY

Aboriginal native person of Australia whose people lived there

before the Europeans came (p. 6)

barbecued cooked over an open flame in a highly

seasoned sauce (p. 5)

boomerang a curved stick that returns after it is thrown (p. 7)

Inuit a person or group of people who live in the Arctic,

north of Canada, Alaska and Greenland (p. 12)

caribou a large deer of northern and Arctic North

America (p. 13)

ketchup a thick, red sauce that is made with tomatoes,

onions, salt, sugar, and spices (p. 13)

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Tanzania

Russia Canada

South Korea

Where Our Friends Live