Nonfiction

We Can
Move!
by Mateo Garza

PAIRED
What’s Under Your Skin?
READ
 STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Phonics
Strategy: Ask and Answer Beginning consonant
Questions blends: r-blends, s-blends
Skill: Key Details
Content Standards
High-Frequency Words Science
jump, move, run, two Life Science

Word count: 95**

Photography Credit: Cover (t) MM Productions/CORBIS, (b) David Hofmann/FlickR/Getty Images

only. Numerals and words
**The total word count is based on words in the running text and headings only
in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.

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 Genre Nonfiction

Essential Question
How does your body move?

We Can
Move! by Mateo Garza

PAIRED
What’s Under Your Skin? . . . .13
READ
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Our bodies help
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us move.
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We move when we
play sports!
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We can swing a bat.
We can catch and
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throw a ball.
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We can run too.

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quickly.
We can stop and turn
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 We can kick the ball
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very high.
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We can jump in a
pool. Our two arms
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help us swim.
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legs too.
We can kick our

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Look! We can roll!
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How can you move?

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 Retell
Use the chart to Detail Detail

retell We Can Move!

Text Evidence
1. Look at pages 4 and 5. How
do the kids move? Key Details
2. Look at page 7. What can
your feet help you do?
Key Details

3. What kind of story is this?

How do you know? Genre

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What helps you move?

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 (t) The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Ken Cavanagh, photographer, (inset) PhotoAlto/Odilon Dimier/Getty Images
A skeleton is under
your skin. A skeleton
is made of bones. The
bones hold you up.
They help you move
too. When your bones
grow, you get taller!
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 head
h

hand
h

leg
l

foot
f
Illustration: Rob Schuster

Make Connections
When do you move your body?
Text to Self

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 Purpose To find out how your
body moves

What to Do
Step 1 Think about a sport you
like to play.
Step 2 Draw a picture of yourself
playing that sport.

Step 3 Share your picture with

the class.

Conclusion How do you move

your body when you play?

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Nonfiction

The Topic
What is We Can Move! about?

Vocabulary
What new words did you learn?

Author’s Purpose
Why do you think the author
wrote We Can Move!?