Harcourt_reading_Grade_3 One Hickory Tree in a Forest 9780153504914

One Hickory Tree in a Forest by Frank Coffi n illustrated by Christiane Beauregard dtpm23 Stamp large Copyright © by Harcourt, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to School Permissions and Copyrights, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Fax: 407-345-2418. HARCOURT and the Harcourt Logo are trademarks of Harcourt, Inc., registered in the United States of America and/or other jurisdictions. Printed in China ISBN 10: 0-15-350491-9 ISBN 13: 978-0-15-350491-4 Ordering Options ISBN 10: 0-15-350333-5 (Grade 3 Below-Level Collection) ISBN 13: 978-0-15-350333-7 (Grade 3 Below-Level Collection) ISBN 10: 0-15-357477-1 (package of 5) ISBN 13: 978-0-15-357477-1 (package of 5) If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Harcourt School Publishers retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited and is illegal. Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 985 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 by Frank Coffi n illustrated by Christiane Beauregard One Hickory Tree in a Forest dtpm23 Medium It is fall in the forest. Squirrels scamper among the trees. In one tree, a squirrel stops suddenly. He senses he is in danger. He drops a nut and runs off. 3 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 3RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 3 11/20/07 9:19:58 AM11/20/07 9:19:58 AM dtpm23 Medium The nut the squirrel dropped falls near other nuts. It strikes a stone and bounces down the ridge. The nut comes to rest near a stream. It lies under the edges of last year’s leaves. 4 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 4RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 4 11/20/07 9:20:54 AM11/20/07 9:20:54 AM dtpm23 Medium Luck has given this nut a chance. It will grow into a shagbark hickory tree. Most other nuts like it will not because the squirrels know when the trees bear fruit. Their sharp teeth pierce the hard shell inside. They eat the delicious nut. 5 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 5RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 5 11/20/07 9:21:25 AM11/20/07 9:21:25 AM dtpm23 Medium In some places, you might glimpse a bear under a shagbark hickory. Bears love the sweet meat of hickory nuts. They feast upon them often. The squirrel scolds the bear. The bear is eating the squirrel’s favorite food. There is not much the squirrel can do, though! 6 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 6RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 6 11/20/07 9:21:56 AM11/20/07 9:21:56 AM dtpm23 Medium The hidden nut is not going to be found. During winter, water and time press the nut into the soil. The rabbits and white-footed mice that look for it do not fi nd it. 7 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 7RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 7 11/20/07 9:22:29 AM11/20/07 9:22:29 AM dtpm23 Medium In April, the seed sprouts. Most of the sprout goes into the ground. The taproot, or main root, of the hickory spears the ground. It is longer than the shoot above the ground. 8 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 8RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 8 11/20/07 9:22:52 AM11/20/07 9:22:52 AM dtpm23 Medium The hickory keeps growing slowly in the maze of the forest. It can grow in the shade. Years and years pass. The parent tree keeps dropping nuts, but most of them never make it this far. Chipmunks and foxes love to eat the nuts, too. 9 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 9RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 9 11/20/07 9:23:26 AM11/20/07 9:23:26 AM dtpm23 Medium After ten years, the tree is about seven feet (2.13 m) tall. It is about as thick as a person’s thumb. Its fi ve-leaf leafl ets are yellowish green in summer. As fall comes, they turn golden. 10 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 10RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 10 11/20/07 9:24:13 AM11/20/07 9:24:13 AM dtpm23 Medium When the tree is about twenty years old, its bark is still smooth. It is not yet making nuts. Wild turkeys might not know that it is a hickory tree. In the past, settlers knew it was a hickory tree. They loved its tough wood. It made strong axe handles and hot fi res that made meat taste good. 11 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 11RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 11 11/20/07 9:24:55 AM11/20/07 9:24:55 AM dtpm23 Medium The hickory faces other dangers besides being chopped down for its wood. Small fi res can kill young hickories. Fire damage on large trees can make trees rot. Insects may attack the trees. Birds seeking the insects may make holes in the trees larger. 12 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 12RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 12 11/20/07 9:25:22 AM11/20/07 9:25:22 AM dtpm23 Medium The smooth bark changes when the tree is about thirty years old. It begins to split. Each part of the bark holds tight in the middle and curves away from the trunk at the edge. In a few years, the tree takes its shaggy form. 13 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 13RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 13 11/20/07 9:25:53 AM11/20/07 9:25:53 AM dtpm23 Medium Nuts begin to appear after about forty years. The tree may live for more than three hundred years. It may reach about eighty feet (24.38 m) in height. It will never be very thick. Bigger beech and maple trees may crowd it out. This fall, though, animals are happy. Many years ago, they missed a nut while hunting food. Now later generations enjoy the fruit of that mistake. 14 RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 14RXENL08CRD3B14_BLR.indd 14 11/20/07 9:26:15 AM11/20/07 9:26:15 AM dtpm23 Medium dtpm23 Medium Think Critically 1. What are some uses of the shagbark hickory tree? 2. What are some dangers hickory trees face? 3. What are some details from this book that interested you? 4. Why do so few hickory nuts grow to become trees? 5. Why do you think the author wrote this book? Science Draw a Diagram Draw four stages of the shagbark hickory tree’s life. Write a sentence about each stage below the picture. School-Home Connection For thousands of years, people have eaten nuts. With family or friends, make a list of kinds of nuts. What are your favorite ways to eat nuts? 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