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What a Seed Knows

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I am small and I am dark.

I have no leaves. I have no bark.

I have no idea where the sky is kept,

only the warm brown place where I slept.

But something in me starts to lean.

Something in me wants to be green.

So I push a little. Then I rest.

Then I push again. That is best.

The garden does not know my name.

I grow anyway. I came. I came.

Vocabulary help

Try to work each word out from the sentence first, then check.

bark
The hard outer covering of a tree.
lean
To bend or move in one direction.
rest
To stop working for a while.

Comprehension questions

Answer from the passage. Each explanation shows how the text supports the answer.

  1. Main idea

    1. What is this poem mostly about?

  2. Inference

    2. What does 'Something in me wants to be green' suggest?

  3. Vocabulary

    3. In this poem, 'rest' means

Summary activity

In one sentence, say what the seed does and what it teaches us.

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