Story and pictures by Gail Gibbons Summary: This is a story about how plants make seeds, the different kinds of seeds, parts of a flower, pollination,

Story and pictures by Gail Gibbons

Summary: This is a story about how plants make seeds, the different kinds of seeds, parts of a flower, pollination, how seeds are scattered, parts of a seeds, and how seeds grow into plants. There is also a plant project that students can do.

Genre: Expository Nonfiction

Look for:Diagrams with labels.Events in time order.

Expository nonfiction gives facts about a topics.

• Gail Gibbons was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1944. When she was a child, she made books and bound them with yarn to hold the pages together.

• Before she started writing books, she did artwork for television shows.

• Gail Gibbons has written and illustrated over 70 books! • Now she lives with her husband and lots of wild animals in

Corinth, Vermont. • "Even as a child, I was always putting books together." • "I've always loved drawing and painting."

Meet the Author

Gail Gibbons

writes the stories.

The illustrator _________draws the pictures.

The author

1.Put your reading book on your desk.

2.Open your book to the glossary.

3.When you see the word, get ready to find the word in your glossary.

beautiful -very pretty

These flowers are beautiful, but they smell awful.

nutrition

- food part that is needed for life and growth

Baby chicks need good nutrition to grow into healthy chickens.

protects - keeps safe from harm

The peanut shell protects the baby peanut plant from harm.

ripens

A blackberry turns from red to black as it ripens.

- matures and becomes ready to eat

streams - small rivers;

brooks

This was one of the streams we used to panned for gold in.

1. Say the words.

2. Read the sentences.

3. Fill in the blank

Claude Monet loved to paint ________ gardens.

beautiful

nutrition

protects

ripens

streams

The umbrella and raincoat _________ Sally from the rain.

ripens protectsbeautifulnutritionstreams

Our _________ friends remind us to eat healthy foods.

protectsbeautifulstreamsripensnutrition

I would love to see the _________ in Hawaii.

streamsripensnutritionbeautifulprotects

A tomato ______ in the sun.

beautifulprotectsstreamsnutrition ripens

Grade 2-1, Theme 3

From Seed to Plant Vocabulary Review

A. beautiful - very pretty

B. nutrition - food part that is needed for life and growth

C. protects - keeps safe from harm

D. ripens - matures and becomes ready to eat

E. streams - small rivers; brooks

Match the meaning to the word.

1. nutrition ___

2. ripens ___

3. streams __

4. protects ___

5. beautiful ___

A.- very pretty B. - food part that is

needed for life and growth

C.- keeps safe from harm

D.- matures and becomes ready to eat

E. - small rivers; brooks

E

D

A

C

B

Anne Miller

• Gail Gibbons Own Website

•  An Interview With Gail Gibbons- this site has video clips of the interview

• Test Tutor- Details • Grammar Gold- proper nouns • Grammar Gold- nouns • Grammar Gold- special names • Word Clues- make sentences using nouns,

pronouns and verbs.

•  

Skill Practice:From Seed to Plant

• Students’ Fun: Website for kids”

• The Great Plant Escape

• Photosynthesis for Kids

• Plants and Our Environment

• Meet the Plant Parts

• Virtual cell

• Plant Poems And Songs

• Gardening With Children 

• More Gardening with Children