The Wheel

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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: 276
Reading Level:
Item Code: 300681
Sounds: -est
Phonics Phase: Phase 6 Real World: Spelling -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -ful, -er, -est, -en, -y, -ly
Tricky Words: -est, -est: greatest, earliest, heaviest,

Reader Description

This non-fiction book looks at the history of the wheel as a significant invention. Features of the Book – Phase 6 - Fluent. Suffixes featured in this book title are: -est.

After you have completed the Reader

The Log Roller Experiment: Early humans likely got the idea for the wheel by watching heavy logs roll down hills. Gather heavy books and several round pencils or dowels. Move the books across a table by sliding them. Then, place the pencils underneath the books and push again.

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