Growing Corn

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Book meta-data

Reading Box: Purple (Levels 19-20)
Year: One
Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
Theme/Topic: Environment, Food, Plants
Page Count: 8
Word Count: 186
Reading Level:
Item Code: 300473
Sounds: /or/ or, al, ar
Phonics Phase: Phase 5.5 Sound Families: R-Controlled Vowel Sounds - ar, or, ur, air, ear
Tricky Words: or, al, ar, or: corn, explorers, important al: always ar: warm,

Reader Description

Do you like to eat corn? How do we grow corn and where do we plant it?

After you have completed the Reader

Explorer's Journal Writing Activity: Have a try writing journal entries from the perspective of an early explorer who brought corn back to their home country. Describe the new crop, how they shared it, and predict how it might change agriculture and diet there.

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