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    This document is a book summary about plant parts. It discusses the main parts of plants including roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits. Roots take in water and nutrients from the soil. Stems hold up the plant and transport water. Leaves make food for the plant through photosynthesis. Flowers grow into fruits, which contain the plant's seeds. The summary highlights the key functions of each main plant part.

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    This document is a book summary about plant parts. It discusses the main parts of plants including roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits. Roots take in water and nutrients from the soil. Stems hold up the plant and transport water. Leaves make food for the plant through photosynthesis. Flowers grow into fruits, which contain the plant's seeds. The summary highlights the key functions of each main plant part.

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    of 16

    Nonfiction

    Parts of
    Plants
    by Sunita Apte

    Meg’s Garden
    STRATEGIES & SKILLS
    Comprehension Content Standards
    Strategy: Ask and Answer Science
    Questions Life Science
    Skill: Main Topic and Key
    Details Word Count: 116**

    Vocabulary
    flower, fruit, leaf, root,
    stem

    Photography Credit: Cover Hayri Er/E+/Getty Images


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

    Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any
    form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written
    consent of McGraw-Hill Education, including, but not limited to, network storage or
    transmission, or broadcast for distance learning.

    Send all inquiries to:


    McGraw-Hill Education
    8787 Orion Place
    Columbus, OH 43240

    ISBN: 978-0-07-681818-1
    MHID: 0-07-681818-7

    Printed in the United States of America.

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LCR 23 22 21 20 19 18 A
    Genre Nonfiction

    Essential Question
    What structures do plants have?

    Parts of Plants
    by Sunita Apte

    Parts of Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
    Ken Cavanagh/McGraw-Hill Education

    Respond to Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

    PAIRED
    READ Meg’s Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

    Glossary/Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
    Most plants have roots.
    Plants have stems, too.
    They also have leaves.
    Each part has a job.

    ©Brownstock/Alamy

    2
    Roots get water from the soil.
    Stems hold up the plant.
    Stems hold up leaves and
    flowers!

    flower

    stem

    leaf

    root
    Hayri Er/E+/Getty Images

    3
    Plants need food.
    Leaves make sunlight into
    food!

    leaves on
    sunflower
    plants

    ©Image Source, all rights reserved.

    4
    tomato flower

    tomato fruit
    (t) Nichola Evans/Moment Mobile/Getty Images; (b) Pixtal/age fotostock

    Most plants have flowers.


    Flowers grow into fruits.
    5
    6
    fruit
    fruit

    seed
    seed
    Fruits have seeds.
    Fruits can be soft or hard.

    (tl, tr) lynx/iconotec.com/Glow Images; (b) ©Ingram Publishing/Alamy


    Seeds grow into new plants!
    ©Bogdan Wankowicz/Alamy

    7
    Ask and Answer Questions
    After reading Parts of Plants, what
    question do you have about one
    plant part? How can you find the
    answer?

    Text Evidence
    1. What is the selection about? 
    Main Topic

    2. What are two reasons why stems


    are important? K ey Details
    3. What can you find inside fruits?
    Key Details

    8
    Genre Fiction

    Compare Texts
    Read about how a girl and her family
    enjoy her garden.

    Meg’s Garden
    Meg wanted to grow some
    plants.
    She put seeds in the soil.
    She picked a sunny spot.

    9
    Meg gave the plants water.
    Soon, leaves popped out!
    Then Meg saw flowers!

    10
    The flowers became fruits.
    Meg shared the fruits with
    her family.
    “Save the seeds!” she said.
    Now Meg can grow more
    plants!

    Plants have many different parts.


    Which part of a plant turns into
    a fruit? Text To Text
    11
    Glossary
    flower (FLOU-uhr) plant part that
    makes seeds (page 5)
    fruit (FROOT) plant part that
    holds the seeds (page 6)
    leaf (LEEF) plant part that makes
    food from sunlight (page 4)
    root (ROOT) a plant part that
    keeps the plant in the ground,
    stores food, and absorbs water
    and nutrients (page 3)
    stem (STEM) plant part that
    holds up the plant (page 3)

    Index
    flowers 3, 5 seeds 6, 7
    fruits 5, 6 soil 3
    leaves 2, 3, 4 stems 2, 3
    roots 2, 3

    12
    Purpose To find out how plants
    are alike

    What to Do
    Step 1 Look at different plants.
    How do their leaves compare?
    Describe them using words
    and pictures.
    Step 2 Look at the roots of each
    plant. How do they compare?
    Record what you see with
    words and pictures.
    Step 3 Look at each plant again.
    What other parts do you see?
    Record what you see.

    Conclusion How are plants alike?


    Parts of Plants Science

    GR D • Benchmark 6 • Lexile 340

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