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Jake and Jackie Learn about Community Involvement

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Jake and Jackie Learn about Community Involvement
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Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 5
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.18

Vocabulary

challenging words:

events-the, helping, hours-they, Uggg, elderly, semester, service, commitment, text, easily, interesting, perk, volunteer, lines, onto, working

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Jake and Jackie Learn about Community Involvement By Beth Beutler

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¹     "Uggg. Community service hours. Why do we have to do this?" Jake complained to Jackie as they headed home from school. "I already have a lot to do!"
 
²     Jake and Jackie's school had started a new program called "Commitment to Community." Each student was to put ten hours of volunteer work into their community during each semester.
 
³     Jackie was more enthusiastic than Jake. "I think it could be fun. There are lots of neat ideas on the list they gave us."
 
⁴     Jake rolled his eyes. "Like what?"
 
⁵     Jackie stopped and swung her backpack onto the sidewalk. She pulled out a folded list from the top pocket.

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