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TM Level Unit 1: Clarabella Wild Wonder Child GUIDED 4 TSETAUCDHEINNTGCCAARRDD11 500-750L READING When Clarabella rescues her brother from a scary-looking insect, her family finally realizes how amazing she is. SHORT READS Clarabella Wild Wonder Child suclpohcukra-tocorestedbrushtailSCHOLASTIC possum Every day, Clarabella Wild did something cockatoo. She was finishing her amazing. No one in her family ever noticed. sudsy-shampoo, curly-crest hairdo. © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2One ordinary day, all that changed.Then, from Ryan’s room, came an Text © Kate McAllan.It started that morning. Clarabella discovered ear-splitting scream. she could touch her nose with her tongue. “Look, Dad dropped the ladle in the sink. I’m a chameleon. I’m catching flies,” she said. Alex leapt up from the rug. Her brother, Ryan, yawned. He went to Ryan was still screaming. the bathroom. Goodness, Clarabella thought. She didn’t want At breakfast, she told Dad about crocodiles. to ruin her crest. She climbed carefully out of He smiled and ate his toast. the bathtub. In the afternoon, she drew a tree. It had Alex ran down the hall. “Are you hurt?” fourteen possums playing in its branches. she called. “They look like squirrels,” said her sister, Alex. Dad followed. “Ryan, what is it?” he shouted. Then, Clarabella went to gymnastics. She “A THING!” Ryan shrieked. jumped like a frog. She shouted, “Look, Dad!” Clarabella patted herself dry. Dad said, “Well done.” Then, he continued Alex gasped. “It’s a monster!” talking to the other parents. “Stay still!” Dad warned Ryan. Later, Ryan did his homework. Alex watched Clarabella put on her television. Dad cooked dinner. pajamas. She walked And Clarabella? She was in a bubble bath. quick-step down the hall. “Raaak,’ she said. She was pretending to be a eastern grey squirrel saltwater crocodile tree chameleon frog SRF_Box_3_ClarabellaWildWonderChild_Option2.indd 7 08/01/18 10:48 AM

SCHOLASTIC“What’ll I do?” asked Ryan in a shiver-hushed “Nasty thing,” said Alex. She shuddered. voice. Clarabella nudged the cricket onto her hand. © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2“Shut your eyes,” said Alex. “Where’s a shoe?”She cupped her other hand over the top. The she asked. others shrank away as she walked past. “I’ll get the vacuum cleaner,” said Dad. “We’ll In the hall, Clarabella led the procession. suck that thing to nowhere.” Dad ducked past. “I’ll get the door,” he said. “Noooo! Stop!” Clarabella cried. She reached The others huddled in the doorway. They Ryan’s room. There was a mole cricket watched Clarabella tread step by steady step crouched by Ryan’s bag. Its legs were bunched along the path. tight. Its bulbous head glistened softly. Then, Mom walked in through the gate. “Squish it,” urged Alex. “My bella Clara, what are you doing?” “Don’t make a mess,” added Dad. Clarabella crouched and opened her hands. “Is it gone?” asked Ryan. His eyes were The cricket tumbled onto the grass. It rolled scrunched up smaller than sultanas. onto its front. It unfurled its legs. Clarabella knelt on the floor. “It’s just a “She rescued Ryan,” Alex called to Mom. cricket,” she said. “It’s got big wings. That “She’s brilliant!” yelled Ryan. means it’s a girl.” She gave the cricket a little “She’s so brave,” said Dad. He gazed poke. It hugged its legs tighter to its body. at his daughter. “There’s nothing to be afraid of,” murmured Mom knelt down beside Clarabella. They Clarabella. watched the cricket wriggle under a rock. “Don’t pick it up,” said Ryan. He opened one Then, Clarabella stood up. “I rescued a eye and squeezed it shut again. cricket,” she said. Clarabella was shocked. “I never would,” she The others ran down the path. “Clarabella Wild, our wonder child!” Dad said. “If I hurt her legs, she wouldn’t be said. Then, he lifted her up to the sky. able to dig.” mole cricket SRF_Box_3_ClarabellaWildWonderChild_Option2.indd 8 08/01/18 10:48 AM

TM Level Unit 1: The Golden Windows GUIDED 4 TSETAUCDHEINNTGCCAARRDD21 500-750L READING A boy learns that things are quite different when viewed up close, and that even the most mundane objects can be beautiful when looked at in a different way. SHORT READS SCHOLASTIC © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2 THETHGEOGLDOELNDEWNIWNDINODWOSWS All day long the little boy worked hard, in the The boy thanked his father and kissed his mother. All day longfietlhdealnitdtlethbeobyawrnoraknedd thhaerdsh, iend,thfoer his peopTlhee boy thaHnekepduthaispfiaetcheeorfabnrdeakdisisnedhihsispomcoktehtearn. d started field and thweebraerpnoaonrdfatrhme esrhsedan, fdocrohuisldpneoopt lpeay a workHere. put a pieocffetooffbinredatdhienhhoiusspeowckiteht tahnedgsotladretendwindows. ara\"wBitufmOhbbaadoYenanhtwphoeuiiemworntialdecayrotollmnusmehakeneblasthw’,uit,mridthovotpdouhlfoyasoeetaooysonateebohnu,uytturyobdheoed,etdhil.nsrhetrhsdrartoeTls.eashgiwdefraa\"he;BhuitumfOhebbaadosg,anaTYoeenanahhtottpaowpihseoakutiirfmhwohrnrtliadloeoaebtsawcmtaneyeotlollmneonutesmheuthakoonebsdgoaslbastyhthw’,euiethu,smrsbipyobdthovhnootldouhrlefroeyottsiasoa’pomleeetaooyoidsssnehhanrtheeebomshnru,dpwuyytturdybdeefaohkdheecoedh,eitdhidl.ae.nsnhsnneetirhsdnararattbarottdeTaayuls.teashogidmwdhedhevheo;ihhuysetsogi,tanpTotpeaeshhetiotypaaoiiscaktugehwpfhfmthlrrnl,ooeaebtsawonotohoneaeilenoeoateahihgvutcooufnrdoeshdigoasbnysthnnleasehaussbpy.obahklncoogeolydneldrbeottdvsiHa’spomledeheloooiudsoehhnrohheeluemsrdpwdyionaokdhusaeweefdokditthecphidw.aeezluwedohnarsneilnatalwptbsarttdeaahidyuvttr.oeosomhaodhe\"kavoedihystooitoeiepyptprytaeswnheermihyaiefuguehhwkp.fmtsalternd,edmnooiohoaanicoOeeayloaamtaihgvicdaffnnrldoehidt;ndhlrsneneleasmanano.baykncogbeo.ywdteadnlbdvftoHsdedhrhewlooTuuoemourtohchelueaekdthideoaokhuhtsarocewosditgtsoiap.nwezluiwesdahharemarolditlswpsaAehidpitnkvcr.oesolgao\"kda,letdfdomaoreiueyeflryothaawnerm,thotenfruhkt.hsrhteeaaddo.msoiancodOealraitmnetsindafnlsdt;dhlreedmnnobynb.wteadftodhrTuemourtchaekthdehtrocsgsoia.nisahemaodisaApitnclWgAdwwwIBriC,flhhbadootfdmarufntoloohas,trnfoiayitfenaaothowfmsrheaoaahtontrshtsdmeatrtdittnhweeeeswancpsoirhanrsncedssiiurna.einadonvfidpmwyTphinegmtgbln.elb,ohoerhetor,odyusfyppaneoitcoa,rtpansshgtcoleWArnwwwIhBoirCfthhbdaoaeirnhhtnoehkomthsfdetudnrenhiayifeaayoeroeowimseaohtmeunittn.rethtsmfmeebaatthtdhhweheeewtaHwcsw.pnrirhsatnecehrasnlcoestseaieficBurnta.idode;ianiadidounve,utniadpmwsnyTpuhhhwulnegmhtglbttrsltk.ghelbtds,ohtuoeroihltetheawohear,ohdsioyeusfypopwaneinoinnuetcoeab,trwrtaacubpwansshgncoglnegegrinhodeahlaseirntsrthiekrd.kosmhtehhfdetmudnhteoeehihfyroyeHi.hteltoma,wewuirtn.ettme.flebahtmheods,hlhhehtHswi.nrHt,estleceelihsalhutoeeahetefoicBrtmteaidode;aiodmueeo,tbwegenaeosdcncuhhwulhltoatthrtkghksaotrfoisagtudohilthatwhoreta,nauhdsieoeusfohwotiehnennuestuegdbdtramachubllchtanigngegfddidgnddeahlarsgletsrhtetbekrd.oehboaeehyomhoeodeihehfhityaHha.tenlpnestola,wwm,rtht,e.lcdahrtmeedodls,lhhhkafimgkeHhe,vwlnedelois,hguoneetoiatbrm,eeneaetksogmreolaibwegebdsothdecnachneewdhhetoeatwhysksaorfesiaudehdhwdnteoorit,enabeuseuspdihotateheoces,,tuupyngddemtmhhilehltawsilefdnndsgtnedbdargeihteotibe,rehabaokatyogsliodhoheshitaflhrr.rpinesielwom,to.ewh,dkmtcdatedlkanfrmgakehevsnsesdo,n,an,br,e.netksgraebdstheyheewdhheetwyseuehwdoneoiebepditacet,upynemthiehlsennstebdtoie,rehaatglihorsflrrriioo:.ewdkmtnrsss,,. the windowths ewreerwe aosf ncloeagrogldlaasns,ylwikheearenyabootuhtert:hem. there was no gold anywhere about them.

A woman came to the door and looked kindly atSCHOLASTIC diamonds, just as he had seen them. But the boy the boy. She asked him what he wanted. saw that it was his own home. \"I saw your golden windows from our hilltop,\" he © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2He told the little girl that he must go. He gave said, \"and I came to see them. But now they are her his best pebble, the white one with the red only glass.\" band, that he had carried for a year in his pocket. The woman shook her head and laughed. \"We are She gave him three horse chestnuts, one red like poor farming people,\" she said. \"We’re not likely to satin, one spotted, and one white like milk. He have gold about our windows, as glass is better to kissed her cheek and promised to come again, but see through.\" he didn’t tell her what he had learned. He went She told the boy to sit down on the broad stone back down the hill, and the little girl stood in the step at the door, brought him a cup of milk and sunset light and watched him. a cake, and bade him rest. Then she called her The way home was long, so it was dark before the daughter, a child of his own age, and nodded boy reached his father’s house, but the lamplight kindly at the two before going back to her work. and firelight shone through the windows, making The little girl was barefooted like himself, and them almost as bright as he had seen them from wore a brown cotton gown, but her hair was the hilltop. golden like the windows he had seen and her eyes When he opened the door, his mother came to were blue like the sky at noon. She led the boy kiss him, his little sister ran to throw her arms about the farm, and showed him her black calf about his neck, and his father looked up and with the white star on its forehead. He told her smiled from his seat by the fire. about his own calf at home, which was red like a \"Have you had a good day?\" asked his mother. chestnut, with four white feet. The boy said that yes, it had been a very good day. After they had eaten an apple together, and so \"And have you learned anything?\" asked his father. had become friends, the boy asked her about the \"Yes!\" said the boy. \"I have learned that our house golden windows. The little girl nodded, and said has windows of gold and diamonds.\" she knew all about them, only he had mistaken the house. \"You have come quite the wrong way!\" she said. \"Come with me, and I’ll show you the house with the golden windows. Then you’ll see for yourself.\" They went to a knoll that rose behind the farmhouse. As they went, the little girl told him that the golden windows could only be seen at a certain hour: about sunset. \"Yes, I know that!\" said the boy. When they reached the top of the knoll, the girl turned and pointed. There, on a hill far away, stood a house with windows of clear gold and SRF_Box_4_TheGoldenWindows.indd 2 11/01/18 8:13 PM

TM Level Unit 2: Animal Surprises GUIDED 4 TSETAUCDHEINNTGCCAARRDD11 500-750L READING This is an article that explains why goats sometimes climb trees and why hippos sometimes produce a red substance on their skin. SHORT READS ANIMAL SURPRISES SCHOLASTIC We all know how amazing animals are. Here are two true tales you might not have heard. © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2 Photos: side1background: © Luisa Puccini/Shutterstock, goat inset: © Valdas Vrubliauskas/Shutterstock, argan fruit: © UgurhanGoats in Trees! Betin/iStockphoto; side 2t: © Howard Weitzel/via techniverse.net, b: © Anan Kaewkhammul/Shutterstock Goats are good at climbing. But most goats climb rocks and hills, not trees! This photo was taken in Morocco. That’s in north-western Africa. What are the goats doing in that tree? They’re looking for fruit. They hop from branch to branch to find the tastiest fruit. After they have eaten, they jump down! The tree is the argan tree. Like the goats, the local people pick its fruit. They make oil from it. They need to be quick, though. The goats might not leave them any! Scientific News, page 11

SCHOLASTIC ANIMAL SURPRISES © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2 Hippo Sunscreen Hippopotamuses live in Africa where the sun’s heat is fierce. Hippos have very thick skin. They can still get sunburnt, though. Hippos love the water. However, they can’t stay underwater all the time. They need to eat. They leave the water at night to feed on grasses. But they also get hungry during the day. How do they avoid sunburn? They use sunscreen! The photo above shows a close-up of a hippo. See the little red dots? They are drops of liquid made by the hippo’s skin. It protects the hippo from sunburn and germs. No wonder hippos have such a healthy pink glow! Scientific News, page 12

TM Level Unit 2: A Guide to Desert Birds GUIDED 4 TSETAUCDHEINNTGCCAARRDD21 500-750L READING This text is about two desert birds: the Indian Vulture and the Sociable Weaver. These birds have features that help them survive in harsh desert climates. SHORT READS A Guide to Desert Birds SCHOLASTIC Basic Facts Indian Vulture © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2 Photos: side 1ml: © I, Ravivaidya/Wikimedia, br: © Yann (talk)/wikimedia; side 2 background: © Sara&Joachim/Wikimedia,Length: 80–103cmTips for Birdwatching ml: © Yathin S Krishnappa/Wikimedia, bri: © Rui Ornelas/WikimediaWingspan: 2–2.4m Food: carrion (flesh from dead animals) Indian vultures usually breed on cliffs. This means that their nests are difficult to visit. The Indian vulture is also known as the They are easier to see when they are out long-billed vulture. It is smaller and finding food. lighter than most vultures. They are endangered animals, and not as It takes 6 years for an Indian easy to spot as they once were. In the 1990s, vulture to mature. Then it is Indian farmers were giving medicine to their old enough to start cattle. The medicine caused many Indian breeding. vultures to die when they ate the meat. In 2006, people stopped using the medicine for cattle. India is working hard to build up the population of the Indian vulture once more. Where to find it A Guide to Desert Birds 11 Indian vultures live mainly in Pakistan and India. Flocks of vultures often feed near cities where people live. They feed on dead animals in the rubbish dumps. They are relatively easy to spot in the sky. You’ll see them soar, looking for food to eat. Fun Facts • Many people believe vultures are ugly and smelly. They are in fact very helpful birds. • They are great at cleaning up! They eat rotten flesh that most animals reject. Without them, more diseases would begin to spread.

SCHOLASTIC Basic Facts Sociable Weaver © 2018 Scholastic Education International (S) Pte Ltd ISBN  978-981-4808-00-2Length: 14 cmTips for Birdwatching Food: seeds and insects Set up a position close to » There are many types of weaver the nest where you can view birds. The sociable weaver has underneath it. You must stay a distinctive black chin. quiet and still. The birds need to get used to you being there. » They get most of their water through the food they eat. You will see birds entering the nest through small holes. (See the image below.) You may also see birds feeding in grass near the nest. They breed throughout the year, particularly after rainfall. They are active throughout the day. Fun Facts Where to find it • Most other birds build a new nest each The sociable weaver year. Sociable weavers instead live in lives in southern Africa. the same nest for a long time. Some They are most common sociable weavers have lived in the in the Kalahari Desert. same nest for over 10 years! Nests are usually built in • They live in ‘colonies’ of 10 to 500 birds. acacia trees near open grasslands. 12 A Guide to Desert Birds Untitled-1.indd 12 26/11/17 9:28 PM