Amazing Amazon

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Book meta-data

Reading Box: Purple (Levels 19-20)
Year: Two
Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
Theme/Topic: Changing earth, Geography
Genre: Report
Strategy/Skills: Summarising, Drawing conclusions, Exploring writer's craft
Page Count: 24
Reading Level: 20
Item Code: 200698
High Frequency Words: again, along, around, behind, eat, into, live, long, look, many, other, people, their, through, where
Curriculum Codes: ACELA1825, ACELY1668, ACELY1669, ACELY1670

Reader Description

The Amazon is not the longest river in the world, but it is the widest, flowing for more than 6000 kilometres from the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, it travels through the largest rain forest on Earth.

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The Amazon is the second longest river in the world. Why is the Amazon so amazing? Find five facts about the Amazon. Explain why each fact makes the Amazon special.

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