Grade 02 Unit 04 Adapted Assessment Answer Booklet
Directions for using this booklet:
In this booklet you will find four options of “Cotton Plant to Cotton Shirt”
(including the complete Original text which is first) to meet the unique needs
of each student. Teachers, please choose one option for each student and
administer it with the question formats you chose for Questions 1-3.
The four choices are:
The original text
Three adapted versions – mild to moderate
Thank you
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
Cotton Plant to
Cotton Shirt
Cotton Plant to Cotton Shirt
By Lola M. Schaefer
Table of Contents
How Is My Cotton Shirt Made? ........... 4
How Is the Cotton Cleaned? …………….. 8
How Is Cotton Made into a Shirt? ……... 9
How Does My Shirt Get to the Store?.. 12
Glossary and Index …………………………….16
By Lola M. Schaefer
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
This is my cotton shirt. I like this shirt
more than my other shirts. I like the
way it feels. It is soft. I like the color.
It is blue. I wear my cotton shirt
almost every day.
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How Is My Cotton Shirt Made?
My cotton shirt was made from
plants.
The cotton plants grow flower buds
called bolls. Many seeds are inside
each boll. Cotton grows from each
seed.
This is a field of cotton plants.
Farmers grow cotton plants where it
is warm and sunny.
The inside of a cotton boll looks like this
before it is ripe and ready to pick.
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5
Farmers pick the cotton when it is
ripe. They use big machines to pull
the cotton and seeds out of the bolls.
Farm workers put all of the cotton
together. They take the cotton to a
cotton gin.
Cotton taken from the plants
needs to be cleaned.
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How Is the Cotton Cleaned?
Workers pull the cotton into a cotton
gin. The cotton gin cleans the cotton.
How Is Cotton Made into a Shirt?
Farmers sell the clean cotton to a
cotton mill. The workers at the mill
spin the cotton into yarn. The yarn is
turned into cloth.
Cotton gins are machines that get rid of the
seeds, dirt, and sticks from the cotton.
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The workers color the cloth. Then
they cut the cloth.
Workers sew the cloth together. One
worker sews arms.
Another worker sews pockets.
This cloth will make many blue shirts.
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11
How Does My Shirt Get to the
Store?
When the shirts are done, the
workers put the shirts into large
boxes. The boxes are put onto
trucks.
12
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Truck drivers take the boxes of shirts
to stores. Store workers take the
shirts out of the boxes. They put the
shirts out in their stores.
13
When I saw this shirt in the store, I
liked it. I liked how it felt. I liked
how it looked. My mom paid for the
shirt. Now I wear it almost every
day!
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*******Glossary*******
boll: the seed holder of a cotton plant
bud: small part of a plant that opens as a
leaf or flower
cotton: cloth made from the cotton plant
cotton gin: a machine that takes out the seeds
mill: a building where machines turn cotton
into cloth
spin: to shape small bits of cotton into yarn
yarn: long strings of cotton
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
******Index******
bolls
boxes
buds
cloth
cotton
cotton gin
farmers
field
machines
mill
plants
seeds
shirt
store
truck drivers
trucks
workers
yarn
5-6
12-13
5
9-11
2, 4-9
7-8
4, 6, 9
4
6
9
4- 5
5-6, 8
2, 4, 9-10, 12-14
12-14
13
12-13
7-13
9
Cotton Plant to
Cotton Shirt
Cotton Plant to Cotton Shirt
By Lola M. Schaefer
Table of Contents
How Is My Cotton Shirt Made? ........... 4
How Is the Cotton Cleaned? …………….. 8
How Is Cotton Made into a Shirt? ……... 9
How Does My Shirt Get to the Store?.. 12
Glossary and Index …………………………….16
By Lola M. Schaefer
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
This is my cotton shirt. I like this
shirt. I like the way it feels. It is soft.
It is blue. I wear my cotton shirt a
lot.
2
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3
How Is My Cotton Shirt Made?
My cotton shirt was made from
plants.
The cotton plants grow flower buds
with seeds inside. Cotton grows
from each seed.
Farmers grow cotton plants where it
is warm and sunny.
The inside of a cotton boll looks like this
before it is ripe and ready to pick.
4
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5
Farmers pick the cotton with big
machines to pull the cotton and
seeds out.
Farm workers put all of the cotton
together. They take the cotton to a
cotton gin.
Cotton taken from the plants
needs to be cleaned.
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How Is the Cotton Cleaned?
The cotton gin cleans the cotton.
How Is Cotton Made into a Shirt?
Farmers sell the cotton to a cotton
mill. The workers at the mill spin the
cotton into yarn. The yarn is turned
into cloth.
Cotton gins are machines that get rid of the
seeds, dirt, and sticks from the cotton.
8
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The workers color the cloth. Then
they cut the cloth.
Workers sew the cloth together.
Workers sew arms and pockets.
This cloth will make many blue shirts.
10
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11
How Does My Shirt Get to the
Store?
Truck drivers take the boxes of shirts
to stores. They put the shirts out in
their stores.
Then workers put the shirts into
boxes. The boxes are put onto
trucks.
12
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When I saw this shirt in the store, I
liked it. I liked how it felt and looked.
My mom paid for the shirt. Now I
wear it a lot!
14
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15
*******Glossary*******
boll: the seed holder of a cotton plant
bud: small part of a plant that opens as a
leaf or flower
cotton: cloth made from the cotton plant
cotton gin: a machine that takes out the seeds
mill: a building where machines turn cotton
into cloth
spin: to shape small bits of cotton into yarn
yarn: long strings of cotton
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
******Index******
bolls
boxes
buds
cloth
cotton
cotton gin
farmers
field
machines
mill
plants
seeds
shirt
store
truck drivers
trucks
workers
yarn
5-6
12-13
5
9-11
2, 4-9
7-8
4, 6, 9
4
6
9
4- 5
5-6, 8
2, 4, 9-10, 12-14
12-14
13
12-13
7-13
9
Name ___________________________________________Date __________________
From Cotton Plant to Cotton Shirt
Directions: Read below to see how a cotton shirt is made! Then answer
questions 1-3. Use details from the text in your answers.
This is my cotton shirt. I like my cotton shirt a lot. It is soft. It is blue.
My cotton shirt was made from a cotton plant.
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
Farmers use big machines to pick the cotton.
They take the cotton to a cotton gin to clean the cotton.
The cotton gin is a machine that cleans away the dirt and seeds.
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
Cotton mills buy the clean cotton. They spin the cotton into yarn.
Yarn turns into cloth.
Workers color the cloth.
One worker sews arms. One worker sews pockets.
Workers sew them together.
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The workers put the new shirts in boxes. Trucks bring them to stores.
Store workers put the shirts in the store.
My mom paid for my shirt at the store. I wear it a lot!
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
Name ___________________________________________Date __________________
From Cotton Plant to Cotton Shirt
Directions: Read below to see how a cotton shirt is made! Then answer
questions 1-3. Use details from the text in your answers.
This is my blue cotton shirt.
My cotton shirt was made from a cotton plant.
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
Farmers pick the cotton.
A cotton gin cleans the cotton.
The cotton gin cleans away the dirt and seeds.
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
Cotton mills buy the cotton. They spin the cotton into yarn.
Yarn turns into cloth.
Workers color the cloth.
Workers sew arms and pockets together.
They make shirts.
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text
The workers put the new shirts in boxes. Trucks bring them to stores.
Store workers put the shirts in the store.
My mom paid for my shirt at the store. I wear it a lot!
ELA AA Gr02 U04 Adapted Text