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Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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Page 1: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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Page 2: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• Five animals were grazing on

the new lettuce in my garden!

"Mama! Mama!" I called.

"Come see what's in our yard!"

Mama hurried over to the

window and gasped. "Sonia,

those animals are deer,

Page 3: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• I remember reading a few

months back about an

organization that rescues and

relocates animals that are

stranded or injured. A fox had

been hit by a car but wasn't

badly hurt. This outfit took it in

until it healed and then found a

new home for it far from busy

streets.

Page 4: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• Are you sure you'll be warm

enough, Sonia?" she asked. "I'

m sure, I said. We sat silently

together, admiring the deer.

Page 5: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• We've built towns and

highways where there were

once forests and streams.

Now there is very little

habitat left for the deer.

There is no easy

solutionTimeline

Page 6: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• A few days later, Papa got a

call from Carl. One of the

does had given birth to two

fawns! And Carl had found

a home for all seven deer in

a wooded area northwest of

the city.

Page 7: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• Camilla was always worried

about what other people

thought of her. Today she

was fretting even more

than usual. It was the first

day of school.

Page 8: Context Clues. Use context clues to discover the meaning of the underlined word Five animals were grazing on the new lettuce in my garden! "Mama! Mama!"

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• “I have no money, but I will

give you this fine gold watch

if you give me enough wool

from your sheep to make a

coat . The farmer said,

“What a good idea! But

you will have to wait until

spring when I shear my

sheep’s winter wool.

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• Anna and her mother took

the bag of wool to an old

woman who had a spinning

wheel. “Anna needs a new

coat , ”Anna’ s mother told

the woman. I have no

money, but I will give you

this beautiful lamp if you

will spin this wool into yarn.

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• I will be happy to weave

your yarn. Come back in two

weeks.” When Anna and her

mother returned, the

weaver gave them a bolt of

beautiful red cloth.

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• Long ago, when the eagles

still build their nests on the

cliffs by the river, an old

man and his grandson stood

beside a large rock. The

rock stood all by itself on

the bluff at the bend in the

river where the bright water

flowed to the bitter sea.