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Scott Foresman Reading Street 2.3.3
Genre Build Background Access Content Extend Language
Expository Nonfi ction
Talk About It
1. How does the web in a baseball glove help a baseball player?
2. A spider web does not move. How does it catch insects?
Write About It
3. Have you ever seen a net or a web? Draw a picture of it on a separate sheet of paper. Write about where you saw it.
Extend Language
Fish nets catch fish. What do you call a net that catches butterflies?
Photographs Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.
Cover (B) ©Adrian Bailey/Aurora Photos; 1 ©Jim Cummins/Getty Images; 2 ©Adrian Bailey/Aurora Photos; 3 (T) ©BananaStock; 5 (T) ©Stockbyte; 6 ©Andrew Olney/Getty Images; 8 ©Jim Cummins/Getty Images.
ISBN: 0-328-14139-9
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
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Webs and Other Catchers
by Hope Ting
Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, Illinois
Coppell, Texas • Sacramento, California • Mesa, Arizona
Illustrated by Derek Ring
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Sandy Spider Says
Spiders spin sticky webs. Insects fly into the webs. Insects are caught there. Spiders eat the insects.
Spiders use webs to catch their meals. Let’s learn about more things that catch.
Spider webs are strong.
web
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Sandy Spider Says
People use fish nets to catch fish. These nets catch things as webs do. Fish swim into the nets. The fish are caught there. People eat the fish.
People use nets to catch food just as spiders use webs to catch food.
That net is not as pretty as my web!
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A baseball player uses a glove to catch a baseball.
The ball flies into the baseball glove. Part of the glove is called the web.
The web helps catch the ball.
web
baseball
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baseball?
A baseball glove needs a web. Without it, a player might miss a ball.
Baseball players use webs for catching just as spiders do.
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What else is used for catching? Soccer nets catch balls.
A soccer ball flies into the net. The ball is too big to go through. The net stops the ball.
soccer ball net
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Sometimes webs and nets don’t catch things.
Here is a fish net with big holes. The fish can swim through the holes.
Would a soccer net with very big holes catch the ball?
Net holes will not catch something if the holes are too big.
I believe my webs
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Nets and webs are good for catching. The holes in nets and webs must be just the right size.
What kinds of
seen?
Talk About It
1. How does the web in a baseball glove help a baseball player?
2. A spider web does not move. How does it catch insects?
Write About It
3. Have you ever seen a net or a web? Draw a picture of it on a separate sheet of paper. Write about where you saw it.
Extend Language
Fish nets catch fish. What do you call a net that catches butterflies?
Photographs Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.
Cover (B) ©Adrian Bailey/Aurora Photos; 1 ©Jim Cummins/Getty Images; 2 ©Adrian Bailey/Aurora Photos; 3 (T) ©BananaStock; 5 (T) ©Stockbyte; 6 ©Andrew Olney/Getty Images; 8 ©Jim Cummins/Getty Images.
ISBN: 0-328-14139-9
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
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