During the lesson about maps, the teacher used the word 'repair.' The sentence on the board gave clues that helped the class understand the meaning.
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Grade 4 · Reading
Vocabulary Reading Practice
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Some inventions are planned for years. Others happen by accident. According to a popular story, on a cold night in 1905, an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson left a cup of powdered soda mixed with water on his porch in San Francisco, with a wooden stirring stick still inside. By morning, the drink had frozen solid around the stick. Frank pulled it out of the cup and had a treat on a stick. Years later, as an adult, Frank began selling…
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How does a honeybee tell the other bees in its hive where to find flowers? It dances. When a worker bee finds a good patch of flowers, it returns to the hive and performs a "waggle dance" on the honeycomb. The bee runs forward in a straight line while shaking its body from side to side, then circles back and repeats. The direction of the straight run shows the direction of the flowers compared with the sun. The length of the waggle tells how…
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