It takes the average reader and 42 minutes to read A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis
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The transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud by Sibert honoree Antoinette Portis. To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow, a stalk inches out of the earth, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. "A seed falls, And settles into the ground, And the Sun shines, And the rain comes down, And the seed grows…" Leading up to a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower, the lively, bold illustrations in A Seed Grows offer a close-up view of each step of the growth cycle....
A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis is 42 pages long, and a total of 10,584 words.
This makes it 14% the length of the average book. It also has 13% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 57 minutes to read A Seed Grows aloud.
A Seed Grows is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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