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1、Hungry Right Here?A Reading AZ Level Y Leveled BookWord Count:1,463Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.HUNGRYHUNGRYHUNGRYWritingWhat 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.Soci

2、al StudiesWhat 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 YWritten by Cynt

3、hia Kennedy HenzelHUNGRYHUNGRYHUNGRYRight Here?www.readinga-Written by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelHUNGRYHUNGRYHUNGRYRight Here?Why is there an epidemic of hunger in the United States,and how can kids help to fight it?Focus Question16Glossaryawareness(n.)knowledge or understanding that something exists(p.

4、12)benefits(n.)money or services given to someone by the government or a company (p.9)campaign(n.)a planned series of actions designed to reach a certain goal(p.14)census(n.)an official count of a population in an area(p.6)epidemic(n.)a sudden occurrence of something harmful or unwelcome in a commun

5、ity 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(n.)help given by the government and other organizations to people who are in need of food(p.6)food banks(n.)groups or centers that collect food and g

6、ive 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)nonprofit(adj.)not made or done for the purpose of making a profit(p 11)poverty(n.)the state of being poor(p.6)surplus(adj.)more than what is needed;left over or extra(p.7)16

7、CorrelationLEVEL YT4040Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRAPage 3:Volunteers prepare meals at the Central Kitchen in Washington,D.C.The kitchen prepares 4,500 meals every day for homeless shelters,soup kitchens,and other programs.Photo Credits:Front cover:Purcell Pictures,Inc./Alamy Stock Photo;back c

8、over:Justin Sullivan/Getty Images;title page:John Moore/Getty Images;page 3:Jim West/age fotostock;page 4:J-Elgaard/Vetta/Getty Images;page 6:Tracy A.Woodward/The Washington Post/Getty Images;page 7:Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo;page 11:Craig F.Walker/The Denver Post/Getty Images;p

9、age 13:courtesy of The Food Drive Kid;page 14:Gundersen,C.,A.Dewey,A.Crumbaugh,M.Kato&E.Engelhard.Map the Meal Gap 2016:Food Insecurity and Child Food Insecurity Estimates at the County Level.Feeding America,2016;page 15:Realimage/Alamy Stock PhotoWords to Knowawarenessbenefits campaigncensus epidem

10、ic federalfood assistance food banksfood stamp nonprofit povertysurplusHungry Right Here?Level Y Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelAll rights reserved.www.readinga-15Look around your community.Find out what the local food bank and charities need and at what time of year the ne

11、ed is greatest.Share what you find with friends,family,and neighbors.Most people dont know a lot about hunger in their own communities.Let them know by writing a letter to your local newspaper.Write a report on hunger in your community and present it to your class.Write letters to your representativ

12、es in Congress and to your state and local governments.Encourage them to support programs that help make sure no child goes hungry.Start a letter-writing campaign at school to tell government officials what you think.We have the resources to ensure that children like Mario never go hungry again.We j

13、ust need the will to make it happen.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.The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)and USDA have set a goal of reducing food waste by 50

14、 percent by 2030.If you waste food,how might you waste less?Hungry Right Here?Level Y153Table of ContentsThe Invisible Epidemic .4Why People Cant Afford Food .6How Food Assistance Works .7The Politics of Hunger .9Filling the Gap .10Kids Can Make a Difference .12What Can I Do?.14 Glossary .16Hungry R

15、ight Here?Level Y14What Can I Do?If you have a family garden,you can donate extra produce to a local food pantryor plant an extra patch of vegetables to donate!You can also donate part of your allowance and encourage others to do the same.Kids in Loudoun County,Virginia,came up with a plan to allow

16、kids to donate a dime to the food bank each time they bought lunch.Encourage a school campaign to buy products 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 hig

17、hest?Lowest?414%1519%2024%2529%30%+Food Insecurity Rates4The Invisible EpidemicIts the last day of school!Everyone is excited about the long summer breakeveryone except a boy named Mario.He slumps in his chair with his head on his desk.His stomach rumbles.The only food hes had today is the school lu

18、nch,and he knows the cabinets 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.13Then William asked a local grocery store to let him stand outside and tell people about the program.In only one weeken

19、d,he collected 1,400 pounds(635 kg)of food and$305 in cash donations.Now in fourth grade,William still holds an annual fund-raiser.In 2016,he enlisted and organized 171 volunteers to collect donations at ten grocery stores.Donations provided eleven thousand meals to regional children.In 2017,he hope

20、s to expand throughout the state of North Carolina.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.”“Im just an involved,regular kid.Any kid can make a difference if they want to.Its just whether they want to or not.”Wi

21、lliam collected 8,100 pounds(3,674 kg)of food for BackPack Buddies in 2016.Hungry Right Here?Level Y5Like Mario,millions of American children go hungry every day.According to the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA),48.1 million Americans lived in“food insecure”households in 2014.This means

22、 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 who were food insecure.Hunger brings pain and stress.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)has found that children who dont

23、 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.Children grow fast,and their brains develop rapidly at a young age.Too little food slows both their physical and menta

24、l development.Many of these children never catch up.The United States grows and exports millions of pounds of food,and the government has programs to help people who cant afford food.Yet there is an epidemic of hunger in the United States.Why?Hungry Right Here?Level Y12Kids Can Make a DifferenceIn a

25、ddition to food stamps and food banks,kids like you can help.Students in Concord,New Hampshire,hosted a“hunger banquet”for their parents.The“cost”to attend the banquet was canned food for the food pantry.A sixth-grade class in Bellingham,Massachusetts,made an award-winning video about hunger to rais

26、e awareness in its 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 b

27、y kids.The cookbook sales raised more than$20,000 for the Northern Illinois Food Bank.Macy Stewart collected 844 pounds(383 kg)of food by distributing empty 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 t

28、hat kids in Wake County,North Carolina,would not have food over spring break,he asked a local restaurant to team up with him.The restaurant gave free cheese dip to customers who brought in foods for BackPack Buddies,a program that sends meals home on weekends for students in need.6Why People Cant Af

29、ford FoodBad things can happen to anyone.A factory closes and a parent loses a job.A guardian gets sick and cant work.A single mom must stay home to take care of an aging parent or sick child.When families lose incomeor dont have enough to begin withthey often have to make tough choices.Sometimes th

30、at choice is to either pay the bills or eat.Millions of Americans work full time and sometimes still go hungrywomen in particular.USDA figures show that more than 60 percent of adults receiving food assistance are women.According to the U.S.Census,more than 80 percent of single parents caring for ch

31、ildren are women,and they are twice as likely to live in poverty as single fathers caring for children.When mothers are living in poverty,their children often are,too.How Food Assistance WorksA mother-to-be uses government assistance to buy fresh food.11Do You Know?The nonprofit organization AmpleHa

32、rvest.org connects more than 7,500 food charities with gardens that want to donate produce.Feeding America,the largest nonprofit organization helping American families,has more than two hundred food banks and sixty thousand food pantries that feed about twelve million kids each year.However,charitie

33、s account for 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 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 he

34、r 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 Y7How Food Assistance Works Federal food assistance began as a way for the government to help farmers during the Great Depression.Starting in 1933,the USDA b

35、ought farmers extra crops and gave them to those in need.In 1939,the government began issuing actual stamps that people used to buy surplus 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 Nutritio

36、n Assistance Program(SNAP)to reflect the programs new emphasis on nutrition.During the Great Depression,the government gave out surplus food to help feed hungry Americans.Hungry Right Here?Level Y10Filling the GapWhen government funding is not enough to meet the needs of hungry Americans,local food

37、programs help fill the gap.Food banks in every state collect food from growers,restaurants,and grocery stores to distribute to charities,such as food pantries and soup kitchens,that serve the public.Food banks often provide canned or boxed foods because storing fresh produce,for instance,is difficul

38、t.For low-income people,the nutritional gap can sometimes be filled by community gardens.Here,people plant,care for,and harvest produce 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“food deserts”p

39、laces 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 generally higher

40、,and small stores often dont carry nutritious foods like quality meat or fresh produce.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,the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,Infants,and C

41、hildren(WIC),helps pregnant women and children under the age of five.WIC provides specific 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

42、families.In 2014,nearly two-thirds of SNAP recipients were children,elderly,or disabled.Source:Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesWho Receives SNAP?44%children20%elderly/disabled36%other adults9The Politics of HungerWhile the government offers a safety net to many hungry Americans,the amount of m

43、oney budgeted for federal food programs varies from year to year.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 also disagree about

44、who should qualify for help.For instance,some people think the government should change its current measure of poverty.Developed in the 1960s,this government formula accounts for inflation.It does not account for other rising costs,however,or shifting demands on Americans budgets.Costs such as child

45、care,housing,and education have increased much more than food.As a result,more families today struggle to pay their bills.Even for those who qualify,not everyone who needs help gets help.Many people may not know they qualify or dont know how to apply for SNAP.Others could be embarrassed to ask for help.Applying for benefits often means taking off work,something people who cant afford food cant afford to miss.Hungry Right Here?Level Y