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Bouncy Cranberries!



Bouncy Cranberries!

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Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 2 to 4
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   3.01

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    gooey, cranberry, bounce, ripe, also, yummy, year, people, meat, lovely, ready, hard, dark, dried, each, almost
     content words:    Native Americans


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Bouncy Cranberries!
By Colleen Messina
  

1     Boing! Boing! Boing! Ripe cranberries can bounce. They are nicknamed bounceberries. They bounce their way into almost every Thanksgiving dinner.
 
2     People eat lots of cranberry sauce with their turkey dinners. Farmers work hard to get ready. They grow lots of berries each year. They harvest about 3 to 3.5 billion berries. Those berries make lots of sauce.

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