| "What
is Erosion?"
Trivia Question
Airborne
material can be carried hundreds of kilometers away by strong winds.
For example, the harmattan, a northwest trade wind of West Africa, carries
airborne soils across the Atlantic Ocean.
"What is Erosion?"
Compound Words
everyone/everything/everywhere,
someone/ something/ somewhere, waterfall, rainfall/raincoat, topsoil/topcoat,
nowhere/nothing, chopstick, notebook, flowerpot, overlook
Compound
words in the story: rainstorm, rainwater, raindrop, downhill, elsewhere
"The 1998 Ice Storm"
Comprehension Questions
| 1. |
Summertown Station in Ontario. |
| 2. |
January of 1998 and it affected eastern Ontario, Quebec, western New Brunswick, and some of the northern states of the USA. |
| 3. |
Two and a half weeks. |
| 4. |
$585 million. |
| 5. |
700,000 people. |
"The
1998 Ice Storm"
Trivia Question
1,000 power transmission towers and 30,000 wooden utility poles.
"The 1998 Ice Storm"
Consonant Blends
| 1. |
dorm, form, worm |
10. |
bill, fill, hill, kill, mill, pill, sill, will |
| 2. |
mob, mom, mow, mop |
11. |
cob, con, cot |
| 3. |
cart, dart, part, tart |
12. |
rant, pant |
| 4. |
cool, fool, pool, tool |
13. |
face, lace, mace, pace, race |
| 5. |
dose, hose, lose, pose, rose |
14. |
lob, lop, low |
| 6. |
den, hen, men, pen, ten |
15. |
ear, eat |
| 7. |
to, no, do |
16. |
bee, fee, see |
| 8. |
date, fate, gate, hate, late, mate, rate |
17. |
cough, rough, tough |
| 9. |
bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, sat, vat |
18. |
sing, wing |
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