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1、www.readinga-Horseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckHorseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckA Reading AZ Level Q Leveled BookWord Count:1,028Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Written by Deborah AmbrozaIllustrated by Marcy RamseyLEVELED BOOK QNQTWritten by Deborah AmbrozaIllustrated by

2、Marcy RamseyHorseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckHorseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckLevel Q Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Deborah AmbrozaIllustrated by Marcy RamseyAll rights reserved.www.readinga-www.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL QN3030Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRANote about the series:Horsesho

3、es Arent Just for Good Luck is the first book in a three-part series written by Deborah Ambroza.The books that follow are:Ants in My Bed and Bats in the Attic.34Table of ContentsIntroduction .4Life by the Sea .5My Summer Home .7Limulus .9Rescuing .14Glossary .16IntroductionI had the best summer ever

4、 when I was nine years old.That was the summer I went to visit Gram,my great-grandmother,who lived at the seashore.I had never seen the ocean before.Dad hoped I would love visiting there as much as he had when he was a kid.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q34Table of ContentsIntroduction .4

5、Life by the Sea .5My Summer Home .7Limulus .9Rescuing .14Glossary .16IntroductionI had the best summer ever when I was nine years old.That was the summer I went to visit Gram,my great-grandmother,who lived at the seashore.I had never seen the ocean before.Dad hoped I would love visiting there as muc

6、h as he had when he was a kid.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q56Life by the SeaI did so many new things!Dad took me to the train station for my first train ride,and I took the train by myself from the city.Towns and countryside went by outside the window.Gram and her friend Jim met my tra

7、in at the station.We drove out to her large old home in the little beach town where she lived.Her town was very different from the city.Most people walked or rode bicycles instead of driving cars.I even saw horse-drawn carriages!While Gram was making dinner,I climbed the creaky wooden stairway up to

8、 the second floor to pick which bedroom I wanted.Each bedroom had different-colored wallpaper.As soon as I looked out the window in the yellow room,I knew it was the room I wanted.I could see sand,birds,blue sky,and ocean waves!Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q56Life by the SeaI did so man

9、y new things!Dad took me to the train station for my first train ride,and I took the train by myself from the city.Towns and countryside went by outside the window.Gram and her friend Jim met my train at the station.We drove out to her large old home in the little beach town where she lived.Her town

10、 was very different from the city.Most people walked or rode bicycles instead of driving cars.I even saw horse-drawn carriages!While Gram was making dinner,I climbed the creaky wooden stairway up to the second floor to pick which bedroom I wanted.Each bedroom had different-colored wallpaper.As soon

11、as I looked out the window in the yellow room,I knew it was the room I wanted.I could see sand,birds,blue sky,and ocean waves!Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q78My Summer HomeIt was much quieter here than in the citythere were no horns and no sirensbut I could hear the sound of the waves.I

12、 had to go see the ocean up close!I ran downstairs and said,“Im going out to the beach.”Gram stopped me and said I needed to learn the rules of the sea before I could go to the beach alone.We left our shoes on the porch and walked down to the beach together.The rough sand tickled under my toes.Gram

13、showed me the long shoreline between two rock jetties(JET-ees).The jetties were long walls of rocks that stretched out into the ocean.Gram said the town had built them years ago to prevent the beach sand from eroding(ih-RO-ding)away with the tides.Gram told me to remember the rules in order to be sa

14、fe.She said not to go into the water unless she or Jim were with me.She told me about currents(KUR-ents)and the undertow.They were strong flows of water that could drag me far out into the ocean.She said if I respected and followed the rules of the sea,I would learn to love the ocean.I already loved

15、 the crisp,salty smell in the air.The waves rolling,rolling,rolling onto the shore lulled me to sleep that night.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q78My Summer HomeIt was much quieter here than in the citythere were no horns and no sirensbut I could hear the sound of the waves.I had to go se

16、e the ocean up close!I ran downstairs and said,“Im going out to the beach.”Gram stopped me and said I needed to learn the rules of the sea before I could go to the beach alone.We left our shoes on the porch and walked down to the beach together.The rough sand tickled under my toes.Gram showed me the

17、 long shoreline between two rock jetties(JET-ees).The jetties were long walls of rocks that stretched out into the ocean.Gram said the town had built them years ago to prevent the beach sand from eroding(ih-RO-ding)away with the tides.Gram told me to remember the rules in order to be safe.She said n

18、ot to go into the water unless she or Jim were with me.She told me about currents(KUR-ents)and the undertow.They were strong flows of water that could drag me far out into the ocean.She said if I respected and followed the rules of the sea,I would learn to love the ocean.I already loved the crisp,sa

19、lty smell in the air.The waves rolling,rolling,rolling onto the shore lulled me to sleep that night.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q910LimulusI awoke with the sun shining on my face.I pulled on shorts and a T-shirt and ran downstairs.“Remember the rules!”Gram said,and I nodded as I ran ou

20、t the back door onto the sand.But what were these brownish-gray things scattered all over the beach?The sand was covered in round things that had shells and pointed tails.Some were lying on their shelled backs and wiggling around.I watched them until Gram called me for breakfast.During breakfast,I a

21、sked Gram about what I had seen.“Those are horseshoe crabs,a type of arthropod(AR-throw-pod).”She said scientists call them limuli(LIM-yoo-lie),but most people call them horseshoe crabs because of the U shape in their shells.I told Gram about the upside-down,wiggling ones.She said they were trying t

22、o use their tails to turn themselves upright.If they couldnt turn over,they would get too hot and die.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q910LimulusI awoke with the sun shining on my face.I pulled on shorts and a T-shirt and ran downstairs.“Remember the rules!”Gram said,and I nodded as I ran

23、out the back door onto the sand.But what were these brownish-gray things scattered all over the beach?The sand was covered in round things that had shells and pointed tails.Some were lying on their shelled backs and wiggling around.I watched them until Gram called me for breakfast.During breakfast,I

24、 asked Gram about what I had seen.“Those are horseshoe crabs,a type of arthropod(AR-throw-pod).”She said scientists call them limuli(LIM-yoo-lie),but most people call them horseshoe crabs because of the U shape in their shells.I told Gram about the upside-down,wiggling ones.She said they were trying

25、 to use their tails to turn themselves upright.If they couldnt turn over,they would get too hot and die.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q1112 Gram told me that if a crab is stranded on the hot beach after the tide goes out,it tries to stay cool by burrowing into the wet sand.She also said

26、the females will lay green,jellylike eggs under the sand.One female crab might lay eighty thousand eggs in one season!Gram said that within two weeks,the tiny larvae(LAR-vee)that develop from the eggs wash out to the ocean.They dont have tails yet.After they molt,toward the end of summer,they grow a

27、 tail.“What is molt?”I asked Gram.“Molting is when an animal sheds its skin,fur,or feathers and then grows back new ones,”Gram said.“Usually this happens because the animal is growing larger.”Gram said that for the first three years,young crabs molt several times a year.After that,they molt just onc

28、e a year until they are grown.Later,while we were walking on the beach,Gram told me that when crabs get tired of swimming or floating on their shell backs,they will let themselves slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean to eat.On the bottom,the horseshoe crabs eat algae(AL-gee),little soft-shell clam

29、s,surf clams,worms,and other small invertebrates(in-VUR-tuh-brets).Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q1112 Gram told me that if a crab is stranded on the hot beach after the tide goes out,it tries to stay cool by burrowing into the wet sand.She also said the females will lay green,jellylike

30、eggs under the sand.One female crab might lay eighty thousand eggs in one season!Gram said that within two weeks,the tiny larvae(LAR-vee)that develop from the eggs wash out to the ocean.They dont have tails yet.After they molt,toward the end of summer,they grow a tail.“What is molt?”I asked Gram.“Mo

31、lting is when an animal sheds its skin,fur,or feathers and then grows back new ones,”Gram said.“Usually this happens because the animal is growing larger.”Gram said that for the first three years,young crabs molt several times a year.After that,they molt just once a year until they are grown.Later,w

32、hile we were walking on the beach,Gram told me that when crabs get tired of swimming or floating on their shell backs,they will let themselves slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean to eat.On the bottom,the horseshoe crabs eat algae(AL-gee),little soft-shell clams,surf clams,worms,and other small in

33、vertebrates(in-VUR-tuh-brets).Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q1314Because they grind food with their spiny leg segments,these crabs have to be walking to chew their food!Scientists study horseshoe crabs to learn more about their nine eyes and nervous systems.Also,limulus blood can be used

34、 to test for some human diseases and to test new drugs.Gram said that horseshoe crabs have been around for 350 million yearssince dinosaurs roamed the Earth.RescuingGram gave me a job.Every morning I ran to the beach to save as many horseshoe crabs as I could.I would turn them over.Then Id pick up t

35、he crabs and toss them into the waves.Sometimes Id toss them into the waves from the end of the jetty and wish them“good luck”as they floated away.I also tried to chase birds away when I saw them eating the eggs.But Gram told me I should leave the birds alone because they needed food to eat on their

36、 flight back north.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q1314Because they grind food with their spiny leg segments,these crabs have to be walking to chew their food!Scientists study horseshoe crabs to learn more about their nine eyes and nervous systems.Also,limulus blood can be used to test fo

37、r some human diseases and to test new drugs.Gram said that horseshoe crabs have been around for 350 million yearssince dinosaurs roamed the Earth.RescuingGram gave me a job.Every morning I ran to the beach to save as many horseshoe crabs as I could.I would turn them over.Then Id pick up the crabs an

38、d toss them into the waves.Sometimes Id toss them into the waves from the end of the jetty and wish them“good luck”as they floated away.I also tried to chase birds away when I saw them eating the eggs.But Gram told me I should leave the birds alone because they needed food to eat on their flight bac

39、k north.Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q1516One morning I walked to the beach and there were no horseshoe crabs!I ran back to the house to ask what had happened.Gram said that their time for laying eggs was finished until next year.Gram said that next year I could come back and be there t

40、o save them again!I walked back to the beach and lay down on the warm,damp sand.My summer vacation had just begun.What would I do now?Glossaryalgae(n.)underwater plants(p.12)arthropod(n.)an animal that has jointed legs,a body with two or more parts,and a skeleton on the outside of its body;arthropod

41、s include insects,crustaceans(such as crabs),and spiders(p.10)burrowing(v.)digging into something,such as sand,and burying or partially burying ones body(p.11)eroding(v.)wearing away caused by wind,water,or ice(p.8)invertebrates(n.)animals that dont have backbones(p.12)larvae(n.)newly hatched forms

42、of certain animals that look very different from their parents and that change greatly in appearance as they become adults(p.11)limuli(n.)horseshoe crabs(one crab is a limulus)(p.10)Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level Q1516One morning I walked to the beach and there were no horseshoe crabs!I r

43、an back to the house to ask what had happened.Gram said that their time for laying eggs was finished until next year.Gram said that next year I could come back and be there to save them again!I walked back to the beach and lay down on the warm,damp sand.My summer vacation had just begun.What would I

44、 do now?Glossaryalgae(n.)underwater plants(p.12)arthropod(n.)an animal that has jointed legs,a body with two or more parts,and a skeleton on the outside of its body;arthropods include insects,crustaceans(such as crabs),and spiders(p.10)burrowing(v.)digging into something,such as sand,and burying or

45、partially burying ones body(p.11)eroding(v.)wearing away caused by wind,water,or ice(p.8)invertebrates(n.)animals that dont have backbones(p.12)larvae(n.)newly hatched forms of certain animals that look very different from their parents and that change greatly in appearance as they become adults(p.1

46、1)limuli(n.)horseshoe crabs(one crab is a limulus)(p.10)Horseshoes Arent Just For Good Luck Level QWritten by Deborah AmbrozaIllustrated by Marcy RamseyHorseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckHorseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckLevel Q Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Deborah AmbrozaIllustrated by Marcy

47、 RamseyAll rights reserved.www.readinga-www.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL QN3030Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRANote about the series:Horseshoes Arent Just for Good Luck is the first book in a three-part series written by Deborah Ambroza.The books that follow are:Ants in My Bed and Bats in the Attic.www.readinga-Horseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckHorseshoes Arent Just For Good LuckA Reading AZ Level Q Leveled BookWord Count:1,028Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Written by Deborah AmbrozaIllustrated by Marcy RamseyLEVELED BOOK QNQTGrade 3 Book 39