Earth’s Water LEVELED BOOK • H
A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book
Word Count: 240
Connections
Writing
Write a speech telling your classmates
why it is important to take care of
Earth’s water. Use the information
from the book to help you. Present
your speech to your class.
Science and Art
Draw and label a picture showing
water in its three different states:
liquid, solid, and gas. Include some
vocabulary words from the book
in your picture. •N
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Earth’s
Words to Know
evaporation liquid
Water
gas polluted
invisible solid
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LEVEL H
Fountas & Pinnell H
Why is water important? All rights reserved. Reading Recovery 13–14
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Table of Contents
Water Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Different Forms of Water . . . . . . . 7
Changing Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Water Is Important . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Water Everywhere
Water is in ponds, lakes, and oceans.
It flows in rivers and streams.
It is in the air and frozen as snow
and ice.
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The dark parts in this picture of Earth are water.
Most of Earth is covered with water.
Plants and animals need water What are some ways you use
to live. Earth’s water?
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Each of these containers holds four cups of water. Ice can be carved into many shapes.
Different Forms of Water Not all water is liquid.
Most of the water we see is a liquid. When water gets very cold, it freezes.
Liquid water takes the shape of the It becomes solid.
container it is in. Solid water is called ice.
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What forms of water can you see in this picture?
Sheets of ice cover Earth’s South Pole.
Some of Earth’s water is invisible.
Much of Earth’s frozen water is at It is in the air.
the North and South Poles. This water is a gas.
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The sunlight heats up the snow, and the snowman melts.
Energy from the Sun causes the water to evaporate.
Changing Water
Water is always changing. Have you ever seen a puddle
When frozen water is heated, it melts. of water dry up on a hot day?
It changes to a liquid. Energy from the Sun changed the
When liquid water gets cold, it freezes. liquid water into a gas.
It changes to ice. This is called evaporation.
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Clouds drop water on the desert as rain.
When invisible water in the air
gets cold, it can make clouds. Water Is Important
Clouds are tiny drops of liquid Rain keeps plants alive.
water. Those drops can get bigger. We fight fires with water.
Then they fall as rain. Animals take baths in water.
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Glossary
evaporation the change of water from
(n.) a liquid to a gas as a result
of getting warmer (p. 12)
gas (n.) matter that can freely
polluted change shape and size;
often it can’t be seen
(p. 10)
invisible (adj.) unable to be seen (p. 10)
liquid (n.) matter that is able to flow
and change shape while
not polluted keeping its size (p. 7)
It is important to take care polluted (adj.) made dirty or harmful
(p. 15)
of Earth’s water.
Polluted water makes people, plants, solid (adj.) having a firm or hard form
and animals sick. or shape (p. 8)
Would you want to drink and
play in polluted water?
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