Marie Curie

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Book meta-data

Reading Box: Turquoise (Levels 17-18)
Year: Two
Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
Theme/Topic: Discovery, History, Science and technology
Page Count: 8
Word Count: 252
Reading Level:
Item Code: 300677
Sounds: -ed
Phonics Phase: Phase 6 Real World: Spelling -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -ful, -er, -est, -en, -y, -ly
Tricky Words: -ed, -ed: remembered, developed, discovered, used, moved, named, shared, continued, died,

Reader Description

This non-fiction book looks at the history of Marie Curie as a female inventor of significance. Features of the Book – Phase 6 - Fluent. Suffixes featured in this book title are: -ed.

After you have completed the Reader

Since Marie won two Nobel Prizes (one in Physics and one in Chemistry), she is a "Double Hero." Draw a portrait of Marie Curie. Give her two gold medals to wear. Write up some sentences to describe Marie. Mention that she had to overcome many challenges because, at the time, many people thought women shouldn't be scientists. Her success proved them wrong!

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