Tunnel under the Sea

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Book meta-data

Reading Box: Emerald (Levels 25-26)
Year: Three
Fiction/Nonfiction: Fiction
Theme/Topic: Problem solving, Safety, Science and technology
Genre: Explanation
Strategy/Skills: Determining main ideas, Summarising, Comparing and contrasting
Page Count: 16
Reading Level: 25
Item Code: 200122
High Frequency Words:
Curriculum Codes: ACELT1594, ACELT1599, ACELT1600, ACELY1678, ACELY1679, ACELY1680, ACELA1489, ACELA1490, ACELT1605, ACELY1692, ACELA1504, ACELA1797, ACELA1512, ACELY1702, ACELY1703

Reader Description

How do you travel between England and France. You can fly or take the ferry. And now, you can travel by train under the ocean. Read about the construction of the amazing Chunnel!

After you have completed the Reader

Digging the Channel Tunnel was hard and dangerous work. Write a job description for a tunnel worker. What challenges and problems would the worker face. Would you want to be a tunnel worker?

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