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Sally Takayama’s LEVELED BOOK • P
Worst Day Ever
Sally Takayama’s
A Reading A–Z Level P Leveled Book Worst Day Ever
Word Count: 620
Written by Katherine Follett
Connections Illustrated by John Kastner
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Sally Takayama’s Words to Know
Worst Day Ever
concerned reassured
loan slumped
objected sympathetically

Written by Katherine Follett Sally Takayama’s Worst Day Ever Correlation
Illustrated by John Kastner Level P Leveled Book LEVEL P
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Illustrated by John Kastner Reading Recovery 28
Focus Question
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Why does Sally think she had the worst
day ever? Do you agree? www.readinga-z.com

Sally Takayama slammed the front “Is something wrong?” he asked.
door behind her and flung her book
bag on the kitchen table. Her little “Nothing, except that this has been
brother Michael, who was only the worst day ever, in my whole
eighteen months old, looked a little life!” Sally snapped.
frightened in his high chair. Sally’s
father looked concerned as well. “What possibly could have
He set down Michael’s baby food happened to make this the worst
spoon and faced Sally, who had day in your whole life?”
slumped in her kitchen chair.
Sally rubbed her tired eyes with her
fists. In addition to being horrible,
her day had also been long, and she
was getting a headache.

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“Well, first of all,” she began, “I “Going to school with only one
stopped to pull a dime out from a shoe was no fun,” she continued.
crack in the sidewalk on my way to “Bobby Danforth was sitting right
the bus stop, but by the time I got it in the first bus seat, and he spotted
out, it turned out to be just a penny. my bare sock and started calling me
Then I was late for the bus, but as I Sock-Shoe Sally.”
ran to catch it, my shoestring broke
and my shoe fell off! It was too late
to run back and get it. I’m glad I
found it again near the bus stop
on my way home, but it looks like
someone ran over it.”

Sally’s father peered under the
table, and sure enough, Sally’s left
shoe was black and grimy and bore
the distinct shape of a tire tread.

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“Then the whole bus started teasing “Either way, after she stopped
me like that. When I got to school, laughing, she brought me to her
I didn’t want to get my sock dirty, office and took out these smelly old
so I didn’t play at recess. I just sat running shoes. She told me I could
on the steps holding my bare foot wear them for the rest of the day.
up. But then in the cafeteria, Mary They must have been a million sizes
spilled her chocolate milk on the too big—I looked like a clown!”
floor and I stepped in it! Now my Sally wailed.
new yellow socks are all brown, and
Bobby Danforth started calling me 8
Chocolate-Sock Sally. But the worst
part was when the principal noticed
that I didn’t have a shoe. She asked
me what happened, and when I told
her about the dime, she laughed!”

“Oh, I don’t think she was laughing
at you, Sally. She probably just
thought it was a funny story,” Sally’s
father said sympathetically.

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“Mrs. Anderson is a pretty small “Then I had to give the principal
woman. I can’t imagine her shoes her shoes back and ride the bus
were that big,” Sally’s father said. all the way home again. Bobby
“It was very nice of her to loan you Danforth wouldn’t quit. I think
her shoes.” that’s a pretty bad day, don’t you?”
Sally asked.
“Well, when I went to gym class,
they went clop, clop, clop on the “Sounds pretty bad to me, but you
gym floor every time I took a step. forgot about the one good thing
Well, one of them went clop, clop, that happened today,” Sally’s father
clop, while the other went squish, said.
squish, squish because of the
chocolate milk in my sock. It made “No good things happened today!”
me miss the volleyball, and the Sally objected.
whole team got mad at me.”
“Oh yes, one did,” he said. “You
“They won’t remember it certainly had fun telling me this
tomorrow,” Sally’s father story!”
reassured her.

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