Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1571
Points per Word
0.000318
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This story explaining the annual cycle of winter wheat begins in late August as an elderly farmer plows his fields. He plants his crop in the fall, protects it from foraging elk in the winter, and harvests it the following summer.