Desert People LEVELED BOOK • T A Reading A–Z Level T Leveled Book Word Count: 1,669 DesertDesert PeoplePeople • W P • T Written by David Meissner Visit www.readinga-z.com www.readinga-z.com for thousands of books and materials. 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Ask a teacher, parent, © Dean Conger/Corbis; page 20 (bottom): © iStockphoto.com/Joost van Stuijters; (p . 10) People page 22: © iStockphoto.com/Ivan Stevanovic; page 23: © iStockphoto.com/Scott or friend to help you. But be careful, you Hirko might plant a seed in their head, too! drought (n.) a long period of time with very Pronunciation Guide Grow Your Own Food little rain (p . 13) Bedouin: (Bed-oo-in) dung (n.) animal manure (p . 17) 1 Find out what kinds of fruits, vegetables, tohono o’odham: (toe-Hoe-noh oH-eh-dom) and herbs grow in your area . exotic (adj.) out of the ordinary, usually from a faraway place (p . 13) 2 Decide what you want to grow, and buy the seeds . hospitable (adj.) friendly and welcoming (p . 10) 3 Choose a sunny spot with soft soil . lush (adj.) rich with vegetation (p . 10) (You can also fill a pot with soil .) millennia (n.) thousands of years (p . 19) 4 Get help from someone who knows nomadic (adj.) traveling from place to place how to grow plants (or read the without a permanent home instructions on the seed packet) . (p . 14) 5 Dig a shallow hole . precipitation (n.) rain, snow, sleet, or hail (p . 6) resources (n.) supplies of valuable or very 6 Place a seed in Written by David Meissner Desert People useful things (p . 7) Correlation the hole and wait Level T Leveled Book © Learning A–Z LEVEL T Written by David Meissner for the seed to sturdy (adj.) strong and solid (p . 17) Fountas & Pinnell P grow! All rights reserved. Reading Recovery 38 vegetation (n.) plants found in certain areas DRA 38 (p . 6) www.readinga-z.com www.readinga-z.com desert People • Level t 23 24 Photo Credits: Glossary Front cover: © Hemis/Alamy Images; back cover: © Ruth Fremson/AP Images; title page, page 19: © Terry Trewin/epa/Corbis; pages 3, 6: © Robert Glusic/Photodisc/ Getty Images; pages 4, 5: © iStockphoto.com/Chee-Onn Leong; page 7: adapt (v.) to adjust to new conditions © iStockphoto.com/Anton Foltin; page 8: © iStockphoto.com/Alexander Do you think you could grow (p . 7) Desert Hafemann; pages 9: Francis Morgan/© Learning A-Z, Inc.; pages 10, 11: food like the Tohono O’odham? © iStockphoto.com/James Metcalf; page 12: © iStockphoto.com/Erik Bettini; pages 13, 17: © Photodisc; page 14: © Jon Arnold Images/photolibrary; page 15: Try This climate (n.) the weather conditions in an © Abed Al Hafiz Hashlamoun/epa/Corbis; page 18 (main): © Antony Mcauley/ area over a long period of time Dreamstime.com; page 18 (inset): © iStockphoto.com/Okan Metin; page 20 (top): You probably could! Ask a teacher, parent, © Dean Conger/Corbis; page 20 (bottom): © iStockphoto.com/Joost van Stuijters; (p . 10) People page 22: © iStockphoto.com/Ivan Stevanovic; page 23: © iStockphoto.com/Scott or friend to help you. But be careful, you Hirko might plant a seed in their head, too! drought (n.) a long period of time with very Pronunciation Guide Grow Your Own Food little rain (p . 13) Bedouin: (Bed-oo-in) dung (n.) animal manure (p . 17) 1 Find out what kinds of fruits, vegetables, tohono o’odham: (toe-Hoe-noh oH-eh-dom) and herbs grow in your area . exotic (adj.) out of the ordinary, usually from a faraway place (p . 13) 2 Decide what you want to grow, and buy the seeds . hospitable (adj.) friendly and welcoming (p . 10) 3 Choose a sunny spot with soft soil . lush (adj.) rich with vegetation (p . 10) (You can also fill a pot with soil .) millennia (n.) thousands of years (p . 19) 4 Get help from someone who knows nomadic (adj.) traveling from place to place how to grow plants (or read the without a permanent home instructions on the seed packet) . (p . 14) 5 Dig a shallow hole . precipitation (n.) rain, snow, sleet, or hail (p . 6) resources (n.) supplies of valuable or very 6 Place a seed in Written by David Meissner Desert People useful things (p . 7) Correlation the hole and wait Level T Leveled Book © Learning A–Z LEVEL T Written by David Meissner for the seed to sturdy (adj.) strong and solid (p . 17) Fountas & Pinnell P grow! All rights reserved. Reading Recovery 38 vegetation (n.) plants found in certain areas DRA 38 (p . 6) www.readinga-z.com www.readinga-z.com desert People • Level t 23 24 A Way of Life Imagine again that you are standing alone Table of Contents in the desert . The Sun is now shining over the Demanding Deserts . .4 mountains . The doves have found shade esert esert d d The Tohono O’odham . .9 under a tree . You feel a bead of sweat on your Gobi forehead . What will you do on this day? The Bedouin . 14 esert? ustralian a d esert d If you grew up in the desert, you would More Desert People . 19 rabian know exactly what to do . Your grandparents he Sahara t a A Way of Life . .22 would have taught your parents, and your esert? d parents would have taught you . You would Glossary . 24 esert d esert know how to grow vegetables . You would d know which wild berries were safe to eat . Sahara Kalahari You would know where to find the well or the closest spring . an you find the Sonoran c For thousands Sunrise in the desert of years, people have Demanding Deserts arth’s surface. surface. arth’s adapted to deserts . e esert Imagine that you are standing alone in d They have found food, the desert before dawn . There is total silence water, shelter, and tacama except for the soft call of a dove . The fresh a esert d more . For these people, breeze feels good on your face . The Sun the desert is not just begins to rise over the mountains, which Sonoran about survival . It is slowly change from black to light purple . their way of life . Then the Sun’s rays peek out and turn the eserts cover roughly one-fifth of the d dressed for the desert morning into day . desert People • Level t 21 22 desert People • Level t 3 4 A Way of Life Imagine again that you are standing alone Table of Contents in the desert . The Sun is now shining over the Demanding Deserts . .4 mountains . The doves have found shade esert esert d d The Tohono O’odham . .9 under a tree . You feel a bead of sweat on your Gobi forehead . What will you do on this day? The Bedouin . 14 esert? ustralian a d esert d If you grew up in the desert, you would More Desert People . 19 rabian know exactly what to do . Your grandparents he Sahara t a A Way of Life . .22 would have taught your parents, and your esert? d parents would have taught you . You would Glossary . 24 esert d esert know how to grow vegetables . You would d know which wild berries were safe to eat . Sahara Kalahari You would know where to find the well or the closest spring . an you find the Sonoran c For thousands Sunrise in the desert of years, people have Demanding Deserts arth’s surface. surface. arth’s adapted to deserts . e esert Imagine that you are standing alone in d They have found food, the desert before dawn . There is total silence water, shelter, and tacama except for the soft call of a dove . The fresh a esert d more . For these people, breeze feels good on your face . The Sun the desert is not just begins to rise over the mountains, which Sonoran about survival . It is slowly change from black to light purple . their way of life . Then the Sun’s rays peek out and turn the eserts cover roughly one-fifth of the d dressed for the desert morning into day . desert People • Level t 21 22 desert People • Level t 3 4 More Desert People What Exactly Is a Desert? The Tohono O’odham and the Bedouin Would you know a desert if you saw one? are just two of the world’s traditional desert Would there be camels walking on sand peoples . There are many other deserts, and dunes? Would there be rattlesnakes, saguaro there have been many other desert peoples . (suh-WAHR-oh) cacti, and tall mountains? Or would the land be rocky, with only a few The Australian Aborigines, for example, shrubs and trees? walked about their continent for millennia .