Fruit
Louise Spilsbury
Contents | Introduction | 3 |
| 1 Where Fruit Grows | 4 |
| 2 Different Fruit | 6 |
| 3 Fruit and Seeds | 8 |
| 4 New Fruit Plants | 10 |
| 5 Fruit and Animals | 12 |
| 6 How to Eat Fruit | 14 |
| 7 Food and Drink | 16 |
| 8 It's Good for You! | 18 |
| Activities | 20 |
| Project | 28 |
| Picture Dictionary | 30 |
| About Read and Discover | 32 |
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Introduction
All around the world there are different types of fruit. Some fruit is big and some fruit is little. Bananas, apples, and oranges are types of fruit.
Do you like to eat fruit?
What is your favorite fruit?
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Now read and discover more about fruit!
Where Fruit Grows
ground

Fruit grows on plants. Trees are a tupe of plant. Some types of fruit grow on big trees. Apples, oranges, peaches, and mangoes grow on big trees. Some mango trees are very tall.
Mango Trees
Strawberry Plants
Some types of fruit grow on little plants. Some fruit plants grow on the ground. Strawberry plants grow on the ground. Some fruit plants are thin, but they grow tall. Kiwi plants are tall and thin.
There are many different types of fruit. Fruit can be green, red, orange, yellow, white, purple, blue, or black! Fruit can be long or short, oval or round. What shapes can gou see here?
cove A jackfruit can be about
1 meter long!
Different types of fruit grow in different places. Bananas and mangoes grow in hot, rainy places. Lemons and oranges grow in hot places. Apples and strawberries grow in cool places. What fruit grows where you live?
Banana Plants
Fruit and Seeds
All types of fruit have seeds. Some types of fruit have manu little seeds. A dragon fruit has many little seeds.
Some types of fruit have one big seed. A mango has one big
Open some fruit to see seeds inside!
Mangoes
many little seeds one big seed
seed cove
A strawberry has seeds on the outside!
Some types of fruit are soft. Oranges, strawberries, and peaches are soft.
Some types of fruit are hard. Nuts are hard. Nuts have seeds inside.
Inside a Nut
seed
New Fruit Plants
n
ew plant
What do seeds do? Seeds make | |
new plants! Old fruit falls from a plant to the ground, The fruit rots. The seeds from the fruit go | seed |
ground. New plants grow the seeds.
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ld fruit new fruit
How a New Fruit Plant Grows
| into from Old Fruit 10 |
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flower
petal
A seed in the fruit makes a new plant. Leaves make food for the new plant so it can grow.
Flowers grow on the plant. The flowers get old and the petals fall from the plant.
New fruit grows.
Old fruit falls to the ground and rots.
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Krufegaè&oimals Some animals carry fruit to a new
place. Then theu eat it. Theu drop fruit seeds on the ground. New plants grow from the seeds. It's good for plants to grow in a new place. They can grow big and tall.
A Plant in a New Place
A Bird
Manu animals eat fruit. Birds, monkeys, and mice eat fruit. They eat it in the trees and on the ground.
Manu animals eat little fruit seeds,
Animals don't eat very big fruit seeds.
Monkeys
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H
ow to Eat Fruit
flesh
see
Open a fruit and look inside! Can you see the skin, flesh, and seeds?
Some fruit skin isn't good to eat. We peel the skin. Then we eat the flesh inside. We can do this with lychees, mangoes, and bananas.
A Lychee
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Some fruit skin is good to eat. We wash the fruit skin with cold water.
Then we eat the skin and flesh. We can do this with apples, peaches, and grapes,
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We can use the skin of the mangosteen fruit to make medicine!
pizza | to make pizza. We press olives to make | apple, or pineapple juice? |
| olive oil. We use olive | We mix some fruit with milk or ice |
| oil to cook food. | cream to make milkshakes. |
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Food and Drink
We use soft fruit to make jam. We use fruit to make cakes and cookies, too.
Fruit Juice
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lives and tomatoes olive oil are types of fruit. We press some fruit to make fruit
We use tomatoes juice. Do gou like to drink orange,
o It's Good for You!
Fruit is good for your heart, eyes, and skin. Fruit is good for your body. It can stop you getting sick. Fruit helps you to walk, run, play, learn, and grow.
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You can eat fruit when you are hungry. You can eat fruit when you are thirsty, too, Fruit has water inside. It stops you being thirsty!
It's good to eat two or three different types of fruit every day. Fruit is good for you!
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I Where Fruit Grows

2 Different Fruit
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(T Food and Drink
Read pages 16—17.
Read pages 18—19.
1 Write the words. 1 Circle the correct words.
jam olive
Complete the sentences about fruit.
Picture Dictionary
cook cool drop fallmice mix olives olive oil
flesh grapes ground growpeaches peel peta Is plants
hard inside jam leavespress rot seeds shapes
lychees mangoes medicine melonsskin soft strawberries world
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