Diana Freeman

When we make new roads, we need machines to help us. When we build new schools and houses, we need machines. Big machines are strong. They do work that is too hard for us. Some machines help to load ships and lift heavy things. Some machines move earth and rocks.

A long time ago, there were no shops to sell food. People even had to make their own bread and butter. Do you know an easy way to make bread and butter? It's not hard to do if you follow the recipes carefully. Would you like to try it?

Bees are important insects because they make honey. They also pollinate flowers and keep our environment beautiful. They are needed for fruit pollination. Beekeepers look after bees and make sure their hives are near flowers, which will give them the nectar to make honey. When bees swarm, they are following their queen from an old hive to make a new colony somewhere. Bee Alarm! is about a swarm of bees who settled in a schoolyard and had to be removed...

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

Within What Makes it Go? and Other Stories there are 8 different non-fiction stories, all at similar reading levels, and featuring high-frequency sight words. Guided Reading Levels D-F.