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Teaching About Multiple Meaning Words:

The following table lists multiple meaning words in Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading books, and the page number in the book on which the word first appears. To learn more about teaching with multiple meaning words, see the Strategy Guide for My Sea Otter Report. As new titles are released they will be added to the chart.

Unit

Book

Multiple Meaning Words

Beach Postcards

meets (16), material (17)

Gary’s Sand Journal

grains (5), fine (6), composition (14), match (21)

My Sea Otter Report

pick (3), fit (5), right (7), times (8), part (9)

Shoreline Scientist

breaks (6), turns (7), even (7), run (8), still (14), washed away (15)

Handbook of Sandy Beach Organisms

spot (10), left (12), safe (13), scales (20), schools (21), sense (34)

The Black Tide

broke (8), collect (11), surface (17)

What’s Stronger? The Forces That Cause Erosion

worn (8), turns into (12), power (22), fall (26)

What Belongs on a Beach?

right (7), flow (8), ran (9), line (10), hard (11), record (14)

What Lives on a Sandy Beach?

springs (16), picky (9)

Earthworms Underground

keep (21), left (16), like (14), mix up (13)

Handbook of Forest Floor Animals

band (16), called (19), cycle (19), feet (16)

My Nature Notebook

slug (16), stick (4), still (10), watch (14)

Into the Soil

land (4), mold (8), mole (12), rich (8), yard (9)

Snail Investigations

drop (8), hand (5), kind (6), table (10)

Talking with a Habitat Scientist

hard (12), place (12), plant (4), raise (5), space (6)

Without Soil

cover (17), park (10), play (7), right (5)

Walk in the Woods

can (12), logs (11), lot (5), rest (9)

What Are Roots?

cap (12), leaves (11), part (3), ground (14), spot (6)

Jelly Bean Scientist

test (4), design (4), last (6), molds (17)

Jess Makes Hair Gel

thin (7), spines (8), plain (10), table (8)

Handbook of Interesting Ingredients

gas (6), bark (8), sticks (8), clear (10), table (8), dates (26)

Solving Dissolving

break (8), solution (12), stir (12), soluble (14), add (15)

What If Rain Boots Were Made of Paper?

material (4), design (11), property (14)

Forces force (4), change (10), direction (11), act (14)
What My Sister Taught Me About Magnets poles (10), kind (15), stick (16), mines (17), table (18)
Gravity is Everywhere fall (6), weight (10), scale (10), pound (11), space (14)
Mystery Forces charged (5), work (6), case (7), pointing (18)

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