by Joy Darlington

Fun Facts
• Plumbers sometimes use a tool called
a snake!
• Plumbers use many kinds of tools, such
as wrenches.
• A long time ago pipes were made
from hollow logs.

Comprehension
Genre Text Features
Skill
Nonfiction Sequence • Glossary
• Illustrations

Scott Foresman Social Studies

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Come and see our jobs. We work hard!
Write to It!
Vocabulary
Write one sentence about a job
job
you would like to do. Why do you
tools
think it would be fun?
volunteer by Joy Darlington

Use another sheet of paper.

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Learn about our jobs. This is Joe.
He makes crayons.

2 3
This is Emma. This is Maria.
She takes care of children. She uses tools to fix things.

4 5
This is Oliver. What job would you like to do?
Oliver is a volunteer. Why?
He works for free.

6 7
Come and see our jobs. We work hard!
Glossary Write to It!
Vocabulary
Write one sentence about a job
job
job the work people do
you would like to do. Why do you
tools
tools things that are
volunteer used to think it would be fun?
help people do work
Use another sheet of paper.
volunteer a person who
works for free

Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for
photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to
correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman,
a division of Pearson Education.
ISBN: 0-328-14795-8
Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R),
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.
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All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is
Cover: (TR) S L Francisco Ontanon/Getty Images, (BL) Kathi Lamm/Getty Images, (BR)
protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher
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prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission
David Joel, (BR) Getty Images, (TR) SuperStock; 3 David Joel; 4 SuperStock; 5 Lon C.
in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
Diehl/PhotoEdit; 6 Getty Images; 7 (BR) S L Francisco Ontanon/Getty Images, (TL) Kathi
likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department,
Lamm/Getty Images, (TR) Getty Images, (BL) Michael Newman/PhotoEdit; 8 ©Comstock
Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
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