Level 1

All summer, Ant carried seeds to her pantry.

Nadia arrived at the bakery an hour before it opened.

A heavy bag makes a trip harder.

Beans and rice can make an inexpensive, filling meal.

Saving money can be difficult when income barely covers daily needs.

For many people, walking is a simple way to add movement to the day.

Near dawn, many birds begin to sing.

Every day at noon, a line forms at Sami's food cart.

Marcus stood on a busy street in a city he did not know.

Many towns have a public library where people can read or study without buying anything.

Many people now spend hours looking at a screen.

Marta wakes at three in the morning.

Mira takes the last bus home every night.

In summer, many leaves are green.

When I cannot solve a problem, I sometimes stop and go for a walk.

I carry a small notebook in my pocket.

Water alone does not wash away oil.

Your body keeps its core temperature within a narrow range.

A day follows the Earth's rotation.

Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, a small town on the south coast of England.

Try to hold a phone number, a shopping list, and a friend's question in your head at the same time.

Open a map on your phone and a blue dot appears.

You may see a line of ants travelling between food and their nest.

Two boxes of the same rice sit on the shelf.

You cut an onion, and your eyes begin to sting.

A zipper brings two edges of cloth together.

You meet someone and remember that she is a nurse and has just moved here.

Before modern street lighting, many city streets were dark at night.

Wilson Bentley lived on a farm in Vermont, in the United States.

On the hottest day of summer, one tree stood in the field.

All autumn, Pip the squirrel worked to have the biggest store in the wood.

In the last week of winter, a young fox came to the wide pond.

The wood frog can survive cold winters beneath leaves on the forest floor.

Water often rolls off a duck's back in small drops.

The rain started at three.

All winter, Maya planned her balcony garden.

Stand in the same place on a sunny morning and again near the middle of the day.

A popcorn kernel is a seed with a tough outer shell.

On many cold days, you can see a small white puff when you breathe out.

Mara repaired coats in a narrow shop near the bus stop.

George Washington Carver taught agriculture at Tuskegee Institute.

On her first week at a large office, Lina passed dozens of unfamiliar faces.

Street numbers are more than labels.

For many months, a sparrow lived in a garden cage.

Papermaking developed in China from plant fibers and cloth scraps.

A lighthouse sends a warning beam across dark water.

An electronic-paper display can keep showing a page even when it is not using power.

Fill a cup carefully, and the water may rise slightly above the rim before spilling.

Imagine a hungry donkey standing exactly between two equal piles of hay.

Mangrove trees can grow in muddy ground flooded by tides.

Imagine a sign above a return slot that said, “Process materials appropriately.”

After Sora brought soup to her new neighbor, the bowl did not return for several days.

Alma Thomas taught art in Washington, D.C., schools for many years.

A learner reads that a seed first sends a root downward and then grows a shoot upward.

A trailhead map turns a piece of land into a guide.

A seed rested beneath garden soil when three warm days arrived.

Around Tenochtitlan, farmers built chinampas in shallow lake areas.

At closing time, a shoe shop counts pairs still on its shelves.

During a contactless payment, a card or phone comes very close to a reader at the checkout counter.

After a clear night, grass may sparkle with water even when no rain fell.

Consider this sentence: “This sentence is false.”

Many owls hunt by listening for faint sounds, such as a mouse rustling in grass.

A name does not make a tree more real.

Mina found a silver button beside the market gate.

Garrett Morgan was born in Kentucky in 1877.

A community hall has an old fan that makes a soft hum.

A good lost-and-found is more than a box under a desk.

At dawn, an egret stood beside a pond.

Before laser tools, many surveyors measured land with a metal chain.

A trail can be free to enter without being free to provide.

A trail camera can watch a woodland path when no person is there.

Sandpaper feels rough because hard grains cover its surface.

A rule feels easy when it helps us.

A blue mussel lives where moving water can pull hard.

At the community garden, Mara showed me how to tie a young tomato plant.

Rain left a dark patch on the community room floor.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt studied star photographs at the Harvard College Observatory in the early 1900s.

An answer can feel familiar without being easy to recall.

A traveler enters a station and sees a simple picture of stairs.

A bell hung beside a bridge in a valley where fog came often.

Before radio, ships could send messages with flags.

A market sells soup in sturdy glass jars.

An induction cooktop can warm a pan without a glowing burner.

A few dry rice grains rest on a thin film stretched tightly across a bowl.

Four neighbors create a rhythm for a street play.

On a warm evening, a field cricket's chirp may seem to rise from the grass.

I once wrote 4/5 on a card for a planning meeting.

At dawn, seven baskets waited beside the river ferry.

Gladys West grew up on a farm in Virginia.

A feeling can arrive before its name.

Before a concert, an orchestra makes a noisy wave of sound.

A potter made two clay cups.

In Britain, Wednesday, September 2, 1752, was followed by Thursday, September 14.

A hotel room can be sold for one night only once.

A cable has one kind of plug, but a screen has another port.

A compass needle is a small magnet that can turn freely.

Every choice closes some doors.

A dandelion seed hangs beneath a white crown of fine hairs.

An unfinished shelf leaned against my wall for months.

Each morning, Mr. Arun sat on the bench beneath the fig tree.

Junko Tabei loved mountains, though some people said climbing was not for women.

Maya’s phone buzzes during study.

An audience sees actors enter a bright stage.

A kite had one cloth tail and flew steadily above the field.

Long ago, people played a board game now called the game of twenty squares.

A market does not always have stalls or one address.

Many color screens build pictures from tiny parts called pixels.

A thermos often has one container inside another.

Milo returns a lost wallet.

An emperor penguin facing Antarctic winter can lose heat quickly.

A festival is remembered through music, lanterns, and food.

Every morning, people waited for the bus outside Mr. Iqbal's shop.