Books in Red Rocket Readers, Fluency Level 4 series

Hav e you ever heard someone say 'as busy as a beaver' or 'eager beaver'? Beavers are fascinating rodents, quite different from any other animals. This legend has been told by Native North Americans for hundreds of years to explain how the beaver got its flat hairless tail.

What does a little seed need to help it grow into a new plant? As well as water to drink and sunshine to warm it, the new little plant needs a space. It needs room to spread its roots, and grow shoots and leaves. How does a little seed find a place to grow?

Within The Weather Report and Other Stories there are 8 different non-fiction stories, all at similar reading levels, and featuring high-frequency sight words.

Within Fast and Noisy and Other Stories there are 8 different fiction stories, all at similar reading levels, and featuring high-frequency sight words.

There are deserts in many parts of the world. Most deserts are huge, dry places where only a few special plants grow. The weather can change quickly from very hot to very cold. People who visit deserts or live there have to be very careful to survive.

Some things need a push to make them move. Some other things move when they are pulled. Which things can be moved by pushing them? Which things are moved by a pull?

Every year, hundreds of millions of people travel by plane from one part of the world to another. Today people can eat, sleep, and watch movies on a plane. They can be in the air for hours. The first plane that ever flew had no cabin, no seats, two propellors, two wings and only a small engine. It stayed in the air for just 12 seconds!

Animals need a place to sleep at night where they will have shelter from the weather and from their enemies. A fish cant sleep in a tree! A sheep doesnt sleep in a basket! Do you know where bats go to sleep at night?

Have you ever grown a plant? Its fun to watch a seed change to a plant. Plants need sunshine and water to grow.

Did you know that the water you drink has been around millions of times in a cycle? A cycle is the way things happen over again and again in the same order. Most water ends up in the sea. The sun makes the water rise. How does it get back to the sea again?

Grandpa hid some treasure for Charlie to find, then he gave him clues. Grandpa told Charlie he was cold when he was far away from the hidden treasure. Then he told him that he was getting warm when Charlie went closer. Stickybeak the parrot told him when he was getting hot.

Easy-to-read format explores four metaphors that Jesus used to teach lessons as described in the Bible's New Testament.