“I always knew they were real.” She didn’t take her eyes off them. Maryann wasn’t bothered at all by their appearance or their presence. Stella tried not to jump every time the visitors’ brightness changed or when they emitted strange sounds. They walked the twenty-minute hike to Old Willow. The visitors shone brighter and emitted a crackling sound at that.
Clara explained our language, how things are known by what they do, that colors are alive and act as verbs. The visitors explained that time was a spiderweb, each moment a star in a small constellation stretching blue and bright. The shadows beamed and dimmed as they walked, their metallic hum echoing in the humid air. Her clear, strong voice switched seamlessly between English and Mi’kmaq as she identified the trees: ksu’sk, hemlock, stoqn, fir. “I’m definitely coming too, then.” She didn’t know if she’d need to stop them, but she would do anything to protect that tree.Ĭlara, an Elder and Stella’s ex-girlfriend’s grandmother, led the group. The willow had survived for hundreds of years. What if they damaged it? They’d all worked so hard to keep that old part of the land as original as possible. Clara wants to show them the sunset there.” “E’e, just the edge of it,” Maryann said, “not actually to the whole thing. We’re going to go to the Old Willow.” Maryann, her cousin, walked up to her. The late afternoon light illuminated the golden sheen on the hybrid trees. They were preparing to walk the marshland. Energy radiated off them like warm sunlight. It was the closest approximation to a human they could do, they’d said, a tinny, apologetic tone to their voice. They were shiny Brocken-spectre human shadows ringed with oil-slick rainbow light. On the edge of what had once been the reserve, the visitors met with Elders and other members of the community. Invasion wouldn’t have to be laser beams dissolving tall buildings to rubble. She tried to ignore the fear and doubt clenching her fists shut. She stood and watched drummers making music that was heartbeat beautiful in her family’s hands. She’d visited the welcome mawiomi, participated in the ceremonies, smiled at the people gathered with signs of welcome in Mi’kmaq and Gaelic. If everything was alive, everything was constantly changing and life was constantly in the sacred process of creating, then, Stella supposed, it was possible that would include life off this planet and in other worlds. People were excited to meet the visitors.
Every time she walked through the swamp, the understanding of time immemorial shone blue sky bright and deep as the shimmering Atlantic that swelled a few kilometers up the coast. Unama’ki, where Stella lived, had been returned to Mi’kmaq stewardship before she was even born, and Stella was part of her community’s organization that took care of the wetlands. Metal merged with the primordial: synthetic, but alive, the world breathed green once again. Earth had gasped back into life with cyborg rhizomes, machine seeds scattering hope that stretched horizon to horizon. What did they want? An anthropological survey. There were newer stories, too, of strange lights blinking gold and green, streaking across the heavens, hovering as they hummed a chromatic machine chorus over the sleeping ink-black world below. Stella knew that there had been stories of people who lived in the stars, the world above the sky, and the people from Earth who’d visited them: holes that opened in the cosmos and had people waking up beyond the stratosphere, staring from above the clouds and down into their old home. Syllables spelled out in numbers and strange hieroglyphs confirming presence and arrival. Guided Reading Level E 1st Grade Approx.Before they arrived, the visitors announced it by radio: signals traversing galaxies, warping time and particle. Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep Guided Reading Level C Kindergarten June /1st Grade Approx. G uided Reading Level B Kindergarten Approx. Guided Reading Level A Kindergarten Approx. The goal is to become a stronger/higher scorer at each assessment point and allow the student to be assessed in fiction and nonfiction at the 40 and/or 50. Nonfiction DRA2 options are available for Levels 16, 28, 38, 40, 50. Guided Reading Level ~ What Level the Teacher Will Teach At Based on DRA2 Simply enter the title to get the grade level or try this app: Scholastic Book Wizard Mobile. Accelerated Book Finder ~ is another site. Do you have a book but need to know the level? Enter the title into Booksource. Enter the guided reading level that you want, and a list of books will come up. Book Finder can also suggest the right leveled books, and Leveled Book Database can help you, as well. Go to: Level (Choose Guided Reading Level), then choose Genre, Subject, Grade. If you are looking for books at your child’s level, go to Scholastic Book Wizard.
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