A Frog In a Pond
Written by Hannah Reed
A Frog In a Pond
Text type: Explanation
Level: G (11)
Word count: 158
A Frog
High-frequency words
New: lots many not
Key vocabulary
bottom cold eat/s fish frog ice insects lives mud plants pond summer swim
things top winter
Curriculum link
• Science: Living things
In a Pond
Key concept
• Animals that live in ponds must have ways to stay alive as the seasons bring
changes to the habitat.
Reading strategy
• Using initial and final letters to figure out unknown words
Paired book
Too Cold For Frog
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Written by Hannah Reed
A frog lives in this pond.
It lives in the pond in the summer.
It lives in the pond in the winter.
2
3
Summer
In summer,
the frog swims
in the pond.
The frog looks
for things to eat.
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5
In summer,
there are lots of insects for the frog to eat.
There are lots of plants for the frog to eat too.
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7
The frog eats the plants
on the bottom of the pond.
The frog eats the insects
on the top of the pond.
8
9
Winter
In winter, there is ice on the pond.
The water under the ice is very cold.
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11
There are no insects
for the frog to eat.
The water is too cold
for insects.
There are not many plants for the frog to eat.
The water is too cold
for the plants.
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13
In winter, the frog
sits in the mud
on the bottom of the pond.
In summer, the frog
will swim and look
for things to eat.
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15
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Index
Early
Emergent
Stage
Level A
(1)
ice 10
insects 7, 8, 12
plants 7, 9, 12
summer 2, 5, 7, 15
winter 3, 10, 15
Level B
(2)
Emergent
Early
transitional
Early Fluent
Fluent
Stage
Stage
Stage
Stage
Stage
Fluent plus
Stage
CHapter books
chapter books
Level C Level D
(3–4)
(5–6)
Level E
(7–8)
Level F
(9–10)
Level G Level H
(11–12) (13–14)
Level I Level J
(15–16) (17–18)
Level K Level L Level M Level N Level O Level P
(19–20) (21–22) (23–24) (25–26) (27–28) (29–30)
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