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1、Hungry Right Here?A Reading AZ Level V Leveled BookWord Count:1,242Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.HUNGRYHUNGRYWritingWhat can you do to help fight the epidemic of hunger?Write an essay highlighting three ways you can contribute to this cause and help fight hunger.Social Stu

2、diesWhat are some organizations in your area that help hungry people?Pretend you are a spokesperson from one of the organizations.Write a public service announcement that encourages members of your community to support your organization.Connectionswww.readinga-VYZ1LEVELED BOOK VWritten by Cynthia Ke

3、nnedy HenzelHUNGRYHUNGRYRight Here?www.readinga-Why is there an epidemic of hunger in the United States,and how can kids help to fight it?Focus QuestionHUNGRYHUNGRYHUNGRYRight Here?Written by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelWords to Knowbudgetedcensuscharities Congress epidemic federal food assistance food ba

4、nks food stampfunding nutrition povertyHungry Right Here?Level V Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelAll rights reserved.www.readinga-CorrelationLEVEL VR4040Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRAPage 3:The first surplus food stamps let people trade a$1 stamp for$1.50 worth of food i

5、n 1939.Photo Credits:Front cover:Purcell Pictures,Inc./Alamy Stock Photo;back cover:Justin Sullivan/Getty Images;title page:John Moore/Getty Images;page 3:courtesy of Library of Congress,Prints&Photographs Division,LC-DIG-hec-26518;page 4:J-Elgaard/Vetta/Getty Images;page 5:sandr2002/iStock/Thinksto

6、ck;page 6:Tracy A.Woodward/The Washington Post/Getty Images;page 7:Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo;page 9:Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images;page 11:Craig F.Walker/The Denver Post/Getty Images;page 13:courtesy of The Food Drive Kid;page 14:Gundersen,C.,A.Dewey,A.Crumbaugh,M.Kato&E.Engelh

7、ard.Map the Meal Gap 2016:Food Insecurity and Child Food Insecurity Estimates at the County Level.Feeding America,2016;page 15(top):Jim West/age fotostock;page 15(bottom):Realimage/Alamy Stock Photo3Table of ContentsThe Invisible Epidemic .4Why People Cant Afford Food .6How Food Assistance Works .7T

8、he Politics of Hunger .9Filling the Gap .10Kids Can Make a Difference .12What Can I Do?.14 Glossary .16Hungry Right Here?Level V4The Invisible EpidemicIts the last day of school!Everyone is excited about the long summer breakeveryone except a boy named Mario.His stomach rumbles.The only food hes had

9、 today is the school lunch,and he knows the cupboards at home are empty.His mom works two jobs,but by the end of the month they always run out of money for food.He sighs,thinking of the long summer ahead.5Like Mario,millions of American children go hungry every day.According to the United States Dep

10、artment of Agriculture(USDA),48.1 million Americans lived in“food insecure”homes in 2014.This means they did not always have enough food for everyone living there.Of these Americans,15.3 million were children.Thats about one in five children in the United States.Hunger brings pain and stress.The Cen

11、ters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)has found that children who dont get enough to eat have more health problems and miss more school than those who do.When kids are hungry at school,they have a harder time learning.Hunger also has long-term effects.Too little food slows childrens physical a

12、nd mental development.Many of them never catch up.The United States grows millions of pounds of food.The government has programs to help people who cant afford food.Yet there is an epidemic of hunger in the United States.Why?All-you-can-eat buffets suggest a land of plenty.But is it for everyone?Hun

13、gry Right Here?Level V6Why People Cant Afford Food When families dont have enough money,they often have to make tough choices.Sometimes that choice is to either pay the bills or eat.Millions of Americans work full time and sometimes still go hungrywomen in particular.USDA numbers show that more than

14、 60 percent of adults receiving food assistance are women.According to the U.S.Census,more than 80 percent of single parents caring for children are women.These women are twice as likely to live in poverty as single men caring for children.When mothers are living in poverty,their children often are,

15、too.A mother-to-be uses government assistance to buy fresh food.7How Food Assistance WorksFederal food assistance began in 1933 as a way for the government to help farmers.The USDA bought farmers extra crops and gave them to those in need.In 1939,the government began giving actual stamps that people

16、 used to buy that extra food.By 1964,the program allowed people to buy any type of food,not just extra from farmers.In 2008,the Food Stamp Program was renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP)to reflect the programs new focus on nutrition.Hungry Right Here?Level VDuring the Great D

17、epression,the government gave out surplus food to help feed hungry Americans.8In 2015,SNAP helped more than forty-five million Americans.The average monthly food stamp benefit is less than$5.00 a day.Another federal program helps pregnant women and children under the age of five.It provides specific

18、 nutritious foods such as milk,baby formula,and baby food.For more than thirty million children,the National School Lunch Program(NSLP)also provides free or reduced-cost lunches at public schools to low-income families.In 2014,nearly two-thirds of SNAP recipients were children,elderly,or disabled.So

19、urce:Center on Budget and Policy Priorities44%children20%elderly/disabled36%other adultsWho Receives SNAP Benefits?9The Politics of HungerThe government offers a safety net to many hungry Americans.Yet the amount of money budgeted for federal food programs varies from year to year.Who draws up the b

20、udget?Congress,our national lawmakers in Washington,D.C.In some years,Congress cuts billions in spending for SNAP;in some years,it increases spending for school lunch programs.People disagree about how much the federal government should spend on these food programs.They disagree about who the govern

21、ment should help feed and how the government should determine who gets that help.Because of other rising costs,such as childcare,housing,and education,many families today struggle to pay their bills.To help with that struggle,some people think more Americans should receive food assistance.A five-yea

22、r-old holds a sign to help protest a 2013 House farm bill.The bill would have cut SNAP by$20.5 billion.Actual cuts in November 2013 affected more than 47 million Americans.Hungry Right Here?Level V10Filling the GapWhen government funding is not enough to meet the needs of hungry Americans,local food

23、 programs help fill the gap.Food banks in every state collect food from growers,restaurants,and grocery stores.They give the food to charities,such as food pantries or soup kitchens,that serve the public.Food banks often provide canned or boxed foods because storing fresh fruits and vegetables is di

24、fficult.For low-income people,the need for these fresh foods can sometimes be filled by community gardens.Here,people plant,care for,and harvest food to use at home or share with the community.Many community gardens grow vegetables for their local food banks.Food DesertsHigh-poverty areas are often“

25、food deserts”places not served by large grocery stores.Some are in inner cities where stores have closed.Others are in rural areas with small populations.People in these areas often cant afford to travel ten or fifteen miles to buy groceries,so they buy basic food at small,local stores.Prices are ge

26、nerally higher,and small stores often dont carry nutritious foods like quality meat or fresh produce.11Do You Know?The nonprofit organization AmpleHarvest.org connects more than 7,500 food charities with gardens that want to donate produce.Feeding America,the largest organization helping American fa

27、milies,has more than two hundred food banks and sixty thousand food pantries that feed about twelve million kids each year.However,charities provide less than 6 percent of the food assistance in the United States.As costs rise,wages stay the same,and federal food programs are cut,these organizations

28、 are finding that they cannot meet the needs of hungry people.They often run out of food and have to turn families away.A mother and her children plant tomatoes in a middle-school garden in Colorado.They plan to donate their produce to a local food bank.Hungry Right Here?Level V12Kids Can Make a Dif

29、ferenceIn addition to food stamps and food banks,kids like you can help.Students in New Hampshire held a“hunger banquet”for their parents.The“cost”to attend the banquet was canned food for the food pantry.A sixth-grade class in Massachusetts made an award-winning video about hunger to educate people

30、 in their community.Other students have raised money for food banks through bake sales,art sales,car washes,walk-a-thons,and read-a-thons.Sam Adamo played his cello at a local farmers market and collected$700 for his local food bank in Rhode Island.Carson Pazdan created a cookbook for and by kids.Th

31、e cookbook sales raised more than$20,000 for the Northern Illinois Food Bank.Macy Stewart collected 844 pounds(383 kg)of food by handing out bags in her school and asking classmates to fill them for St.Marys Food Bank in Surprise,Arizona.When seven-year-old William Winslow realized that kids in his

32、part of North Carolina would not have food over spring break,he asked a local grocery store to let him stand outside and talk to people.He told them about BackPack Buddies,a program that sends meals home on weekends for students in need.13In only one weekend,William collected 1,400 pounds(635 kg)of

33、food and$305 in cash donations.Now in fourth grade,he still holds a fund-raiser each year.In 2016,he organized 171 volunteers to collect donations at ten grocery stores.Donations provided eleven thousand meals to children in his area.In 2017,he hopes to expand throughout the state of North Carolina.

34、William says,“Im just an involved,regular kid.Any kid can make a difference if they want to.Its just whether they want to or not.”William collected 8,100 pounds(3,674 kg)of food for BackPack Buddies in 2016.“Im just an involved,regular kid.Any kid can make a difference if they want to.Its just wheth

35、er they want to or not.”Hungry Right Here?Level V14What Can I Do?If you have a family garden,you can donate extra vegetables to a local food pantryor plant an extra patch to donate!You can also donate part of your allowance and encourage others to do the same.Kids in Virginia came up with a plan to

36、allow kids to donate a dime to the food bank each time they bought lunch.Create a plan at your school to support food banks.Map the Meal GapUse this map to compare rates of hunger within your state.Next,compare your state and region with others.Where is the percentage of food insecurity highest?Lowe

37、st?414%1519%2024%2529%30%+Food Insecurity Rates15Volunteers prepare meals at the Central Kitchen in Washington,D.C.Dont Waste Food!About 40 percent of food in the United States is thrown away.The average family of four wastes about$1,500 worth of food,or two million calories each year.Most people do

38、nt know a lot about hunger in their own communities.Find out what the local food bank and charities need and at what time of year the need is greatest.Share what you find with friends,family,and neighbors.Write letters to Congress and to your state and local governments.Encourage your leaders to sup

39、port programs that help make sure no child goes hungry.We have what it takes to make sure that children like Mario never go hungry again.We just need the will to make it happen.Hungry Right Here?Level V16Glossarybudgeted(v.)planned or set aside something,usually money,for a particular purpose(p.9)ce

40、nsus(n.)an official count of a population(p.6)charities(n.)organizations that accept donations of money,goods,or services and use them to help those in need(p.10)Congress(n.)the highest lawmaking body of the U.S.government,which includes the Senate and the House of Representatives(p.9)epidemic(n.)a

41、sudden occurrence of something harmful or unwelcome in a community that spreads quickly(p.5)federal(adj.)of or relating to a central government that shares power with separate states or regions(p.7)food assistance help given by federal programs to (n.)people who are in need of food(p.6)food banks(n.

42、)groups or centers that collect food and give it to those who need it(p.10)food stamp(n.)a coupon or other document given by the government to help people buy food(p.7)funding(n.)money given by a government or other organization for a specific purpose(p.10)nutrition(n.)the process of eating the kind of foods necessary for life,growth,and health;the study of food and healthy eating(p.7)poverty(n.)the state of being poor(p.6)