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Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 2 to 3
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.65

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		blustery, helicopter, schoolyard, lonely, blown, longer, tips, stayed, seedling, town, gust, tree, especially, center, sugary, sunlight
	content words:		Cooler September

Other Languages
     Spanish: El Arce Rojo Extiende sus Alas

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The Red Maple Spreads Its Wings By Joyce Furstenau

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¹     The lonely red maple tree in the town square began to feel a change in the weather. Cooler September air sent chills up and down its branches. Shorter days and less direct sunlight meant that its leaves were producing less and less food. Winter was coming. To prepare, the maple tree blocked off the flow of sap to its leaves. Autumn days passed, and the red maple's leaves slowly turned from green to a brilliant red.
 
²     After every leaf on the tree had turned completely red, they began falling. By the middle of October, only a few leaves were left on the tree. There were still some clumps of brown maple seeds clinging to the tips of a few branches. The seeds appeared to have wings. When they fell, they twirled around and around like the rotors on a helicopter.
 
³     One blustery October day, a big gust of wind blew through the square. The wind brought down the last of the seed clusters, and seeds scattered everywhere. They were blown down the street and into nooks and crannies from here to there. Some seeds were carried over the fields into faraway places. When the wind finally quit, the seeds stayed where they landed on the ground all winter long. An icy blanket of snow covered them for many weeks.

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