This document describes a family's annual tradition of making maple syrup every March. It details the process of tapping maple trees to collect sap, boiling the sap to make syrup, and enjoying pancakes with the finished syrup. The document contains illustrations and is intended for beginning readers.
This document describes a family's annual tradition of making maple syrup every March. It details the process of tapping maple trees to collect sap, boiling the sap to make syrup, and enjoying pancakes with the finished syrup. The document contains illustrations and is intended for beginning readers.
This document describes a family's annual tradition of making maple syrup every March. It details the process of tapping maple trees to collect sap, boiling the sap to make syrup, and enjoying pancakes with the finished syrup. The document contains illustrations and is intended for beginning readers.
This document describes a family's annual tradition of making maple syrup every March. It details the process of tapping maple trees to collect sap, boiling the sap to make syrup, and enjoying pancakes with the finished syrup. The document contains illustrations and is intended for beginning readers.
A Reading A–Z Level I Leveled Book Word Count: 249 Maple Syrup
Written by Karen Mockler • Illustrated by Linda Pierce
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Illustrated by Linda Pierce www.readinga-z.com This is my family. Every March, we make maple syrup. We Make Maple Syrup • Level I 3 Real maple syrup comes from maple sap. This is my family. Sap is the juice in trees. Every March, we make maple syrup. It’s sort of like the blood in us. We Make Maple Syrup • Level I 3 4 March is a good time to get the sap. It’s still cold outside, but we wear our boots and hats. We go out to the woods behind my grandparents’ home. We look for maple trees. We Make Maple Syrup • Level I 5 March is a good time to get the sap. It’s still cold outside, but we wear our boots and hats. We go out to the woods behind my grandparents’ home. We look for maple trees. To tap a tree, we drill a hole.
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We push a spout in the hole. Then we hang a bucket under it to get the sap. We tap the big trees. Big trees have the most sap.
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We push a spout in the hole. Then we hang a bucket under it to get the sap. We wait for the first drip. Ping! We tap the big trees. One more drip, and we’re on to the Big trees have the most sap. next tree.
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All that day, we let the sap drip. Before dark, we look into our buckets. We have a lot of sap, but we want more. Forty buckets of sap boil down to make one bucket of syrup!
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All that day, we let the sap drip. Before dark, we look into our buckets. We have a lot of sap, but we want more. Forty buckets of sap boil down to The next day, we look again. make one bucket of syrup! Now we have what we want.
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We boil the sap outside in two large pans. It boils for hours, giving off a sticky steam. Now and then, we add more sap.
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We boil the sap outside in two large pans. We let it boil some more. It boils for hours, giving off It boils all day under a blue sky. a sticky steam. The sky grows dark. Now and then, we add more sap. The stars come out.
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From outside, Grandma calls, “Time for dinner! Make those pancakes!”
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We do. From outside, Grandma calls, “Time The syrup cools while the pancakes for dinner! Make those pancakes!” cook.
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At last, we get to eat! The syrup takes work, but it’s worth it. We Make Maple Syrup • Level I 15 Glossary boil (v.) to heat a liquid until it bubbles (p. 11) drill (v.) to make a hole with a tool (p. 6) maple syrup (n.) a sweet syrup made from the sap of maple trees (p. 3) sap (n.) the fluid that carries food through a plant (p. 4) spout (n.) a tube, pipe, or hole that allows liquid to pass through (p. 7) tap (v.) to make a hole in At last, we get to eat! something to drain The syrup takes work, but it’s worth it. off liquid (p. 6)
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A Reading A–Z Level I Leveled Book Word Count: 249 Maple Syrup
Written by Karen Mockler • Illustrated by Linda Pierce
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