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Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs by Kristin Cashore illustrated by Tom LaBaff Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York Sales Offices: N

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Scott Foresman Reading Street 3.1.4

That Laid Golden Eggs

by Kristin Cashore illustrated by Tom LaBaff

ISBN 0-328-13333-7 ì<(sk$m)=bddddi< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U

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Lexile, ® and Reading Recovery ™ are provided

in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide.

Genre Comprehension

Skills and Strategy Animal

fantasy

• Realism and Fantasy

• Character

• Monitor and Fix Up

Scott Foresman Reading Street 3.1.4

That Laid Golden Eggs

ISBN 0-328-13333-7 ì<(sk$m)=bddddi< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U

Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA,

Lexile, ® and Reading Recovery ™ are provided

in the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide.

Genre Comprehension

Skills and Strategy Animal

fantasy

• Realism and Fantasy

• Character

• Monitor and Fix Up

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1 Is this story a realistic story or a fantasy?

Explain your answer.

2 Use words or phrases to list Mr Grim’s five

plans on a web like the one below Reread

to find any you don’t remember

3 What is a mortgage? Use the context clues

on page 18, as well as a dictionary, to find

out Then use mortgage in a complete

sentence to show your understanding.

4 A moral is a lesson taught by a story Does

this story have a moral? If so, what do you think it is?

Reader Response

Mr

Grim’s Plans

Mr Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs

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Mr Grim lived in an enormous mansion outside of town In his backyard he had beautiful flowers and tall grass and a lovely pond He had apple trees and pear trees and green hills that rolled gently into the distance

It was a beautiful place to live, and Mr

Grim should have been happy But he wasn’t

Mr Grim was never happy because he always wanted more than what he had

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One day, a goose knocked on Mr Grim’s door “Good day to you,” said the goose

“What do you want?” asked Mr Grim, grumpily

“I’m looking for a new home,” said the goose, “and I think that your yard is just the

right place.”

“I can’t have a goose running around my yard, eating my grass, and swimming in my

pond,” Mr Grim snapped

“If you’ll let me make my home here,” the goose said, “I’ll give you my golden eggs.”

“Golden eggs?” Mr Grim asked, interested

“Every day, I lay one golden egg,” said the goose “If you’ll grant me permission to live

here, the eggs will be yours.”

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The goose reached into her suitcase and pulled out a glittering golden egg “Here,” she said “This is the golden egg I laid this morning

Would you like to have it?”

Mr Grim’s eyes gleamed as brightly as the egg “It’s a deal,” he said He grabbed the golden egg and slammed the door in the goose’s face

A few seconds later, he opened the door again and peeked out

“You lay only one egg a day?” he asked

“One should be more than enough,” the goose said, “if you invest it wisely.”

Mr Grim scowled and slammed the door again Then he sat down and began some serious planning

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The next morning, Mr Grim brought the goose a huge breakfast

“Thank you very much,” said the goose, “but I’m a goose I don’t eat bacon and eggs, and I

don’t drink coffee I prefer to eat a bit of grass

and sip cool water from the pond.”

“If you don’t eat it,” Mr Grim said, “I’ll assume that you have very bad manners.”

So the goose ate the bacon and eggs and drank the coffee And when Mr Grim brought

the goose brunch, then lunch, then tea, then

dinner, and then supper, the goose ate all of

those too Then Mr Grim arrived with a very

rich dessert, but the goose had had enough

Her stomach was much too full!

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“Oh, help!” the goose moaned “I can’t eat another bite! I’m a goose! I eat grass and grains!

Why are you feeding me so much food?”

Mr Grim grunted “I thought that if I fed you well, you might lay more eggs,” he said

“I told you that I lay only one egg a day,”

said the goose “What did you do with the egg I gave you yesterday?”

“I used it to buy this food,” said Mr Grim

The goose sighed “Here,” she said, reaching into her nest “Here is the egg I laid today I hope you will take it to the bank and deposit it

in your bank account.”

Mr Grim grabbed the egg greedily “Yeah, maybe,” he said, but the goose suspected that

he didn’t mean it

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The next day while the goose was sleeping,

Mr Grim carried a big pump out to the pond

He lowered the pump into the pond and

attached a hose to it Then he turned on the

pump and sprayed the goose with water The

startled goose woke up immediately

“Hold on!” she spluttered “What do you think you’re doing?”

“I thought that if I watered you, you might lay more eggs,” Mr Grim said

“If I were a flower that grew golden petals,”

said the goose, “that might make sense But I am

a goose! Whoever heard of watering a goose?”

“It was worth a try,” said Mr Grim, grumpily

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“I’ve told you before that I lay only one egg

a day,” said the goose “What did you do with the egg I laid yesterday?”

“I used it to buy this pump and hose,” Mr

Grim said

The goose shook her head, reached into her nest, and pulled out another glittering egg

“Here’s today’s egg,” she said “Why don’t you take it to the bank and open a savings account? If you leave the egg in the account for a while, it will earn interest It will grow in value and increase your wealth.”

Mr Grim took the egg, but he didn’t go to the bank and open a savings account

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The next day, Mr Grim dressed in a monster costume and scary mask, tiptoed over to the

pond, and quietly snuck up on the goose

“Boo!” he yelled “Boo!”

“Oh my!” screamed the goose, jumping so high that she lost some of her feathers “Mr

Grim, is that you? What are you doing now?”

“I thought that if you had a good scare, you might lay more eggs,” said Mr Grim “It’s a very

clever idea Won’t you agree?”

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“Mr Grim,” said the goose, “I’ve told you many times that I lay only one egg a day Did you use the egg I gave you yesterday to buy that silly costume?”

“Yes,” said Mr Grim “Are you impressed?”

The goose’s voice was stern “Mr Grim,”

she said, “I’m going to give you today’s egg I suggest that you go straight to the bank and sit down with a banker There are many ways for you to invest these golden eggs so that you earn more money The banker will give you advice Will you do that, Mr Grim?”

“Yeah, sure,” said Mr Grim, but he didn’t mean it He was already busy thinking of more ways to get the goose to lay more golden eggs

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The next day when the goose came back from a stroll, she discovered Mr Grim building

a miniature house next to the pond

“What are you doing?” asked the goose

“I’m building you a house,” said Mr Grim

“I thought that if you had a nice house to keep

you warm, you might lay more eggs.”

“But I don’t want a nice house!” said the goose “I’m a goose! I live outside!”

“Just try it,” said Mr Grim “Maybe you’ll be more comfortable in this house and then you’ll

lay more eggs.”

The goose tapped her foot and struggled to hold her temper

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“Mr Grim,” she said, “I’m not going to ask you how you bought the materials for this house because I think I already know.”

The goose reached into her nest “Here is today’s egg,” she said “I have two important things to tell you The first is that I’m not going

to live in that house The second is that if you’re wise, you won’t spend this egg Maybe you’ll take this egg to the bank, or maybe you’ll call

a stockbroker and invest this egg in the stock market Will you be wise this time, Mr Grim?”

Mr Grim didn’t answer He was thinking of

a new plan to get the goose to lay more eggs

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The next morning the goose was reading

a newspaper when a large, toothy dog came

bounding over the hill

“Run!” yelled the dog “Run! It’s a game, Miss Goose! Run, or I’ll catch you!”

“Help!” cried the frightened goose “Help!”

She ran around the yard as fast as she could,

and the dog snapped at her heels

“Stop!” cried the goose as she flapped through a field of flowers

“It’s a game!” yelled the dog as he raced around the pond

“It’s not a fun game!” yelled the goose

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The dog stopped running and settled down

to rest “I’m sorry,” he said, meaning it “Mr Grim told me you would think the game was fun I didn’t mean to scare you.”

The goose caught her breath and smoothed her feathers She looked up to see Mr Grim walking toward them

“I thought that if you got more exercise,” Mr

Grim said, “you might lay more eggs.”

The goose took a few deep breaths and tried her best to calm down, but it was no use

“That’s it!” she said “I’ve had enough!”

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The goose marched back and forth and waved her wings in the air “All I wanted was a

peaceful home,” she said, “but this place is not

peaceful! Every day you come down here and

bother me Every day you invent some silly plan

to get me to lay more eggs I told you from the

start that I lay only one egg each day, and I told

you that if you invested wisely, one egg each

day would be more than enough But you are

too greedy to listen to my advice!”

The goose opened her suitcase and began packing “You’re the worst neighbor I’ve ever

had,” she said, “and you’re wasting my valuable

eggs Our deal is finished! I’m leaving!”

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“Please don’t leave!” Mr Grim said “Where will you go? You won’t find a more beautiful home than my yard.”

“I will buy a small piece of land of my own,”

said the goose, “with a pond and grass and flowers and trees I will keep my eggs, invest them myself, and live peacefully and happily ever after.”

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And that’s exactly what the goose did She found some land with a pond and grass and

flowers and trees She took out a mortgage,

which allowed her to pay for the land slowly

over time And every day when she laid a

golden egg, she called her stockbroker and

asked him to invest it wisely for her

Over the years, the goose earned money in the stock market It wasn’t enough to make her

rich, but it was enough to pay for her land, and

it was enough to send her nieces and nephews

to college This made the goose very happy

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Mr Grim, on the other hand, returned to the same life he’d had before he met the goose

He lived in his beautiful house on his beautiful land And now that the glittering golden eggs were gone, Mr Grim felt even more sorry for himself Although he had more than he needed,

he was not happy Because no matter how much Mr Grim had, all he wanted was more

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It is a stockbroker’s job to help people invest

their money wisely.

Have you ever heard people talk about investing in the stock market? Do you know

what this means?

The stock market involves a large group

of companies Investors study the companies

When an investor finds a company that makes

a lot of money, the investor knows that it is a

good company in which to invest

If you invest carefully in many different companies and then wait ten or twenty or even

fifty years, many of the companies are likely to

grow If you are patient like the goose, you are

likely to earn money over time

Investing in the

Stock Market

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