Rocks in His Head
By: Carol Otis Hurst
Illustrated by: James Stevenson
Genre: biography
A story of a real person’s life,
written by another person
Words to know
 attic
 board
 chores
 customer
 labeled
 spare
 stamps
More Words to Know
 janitor
– someone whose work is
taking care of a building or
offices
 minerals – solid substances,
usually dug from the earth
 quarries – places where stone is
dug, cut, or blasted out for use
in putting up buildings
Attic
 The
space in a house just below the
roof and above other rooms
board
A
group of people managing
something
chores
 Small
tasks or easy jobs that you
have to do regularly
customer
 Someone
who buys goods or services
labeled
 Put
or wrote a label on something
spare
 extra
stamps
 Small
pieces of paper with glue on
the back for mailing letters and
packages
Let’s
Practice!
She
the rocks
in her collection so
everyone would
know what they
were.
labeled
He had to buy several
to mail out the invitations
to his birthday party.
stamps
After school, I do all of my
. I must feed the dog
and clean my room.
chores
We keep all of our
Christmas decorations in
the
. My dad has to
climb up there and get
them every year.
attic
The salesman in the
store asked the
if she needed any
help.
customer
We always keep a
tire in the trunk of our
car in case we get a
flat.
spare
She had a meeting
with the
of
directors at her
company.
board
Let’s listen to our
story!