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 Shining Sea, Come Back

Shining Sea, Come Back
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 1 to 3
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   3.49

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    lasts, layer, lines, seals, toxic, yuck, zone, accident, also, another, back, being, cake, care, cause, dark
     content words:    Exxon Valdez

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Shining Sea, Come Back
By Colleen Messina 		  
1     Caption: Workers using high-pressure, hot-water washing to clean an oiled shoreline after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
 
2     Part of America the Beautiful is about a "shining sea." What do you think of when you hear those words? A clean, fresh ocean? It is too bad that the ocean is not that clean. Ocean pollution is a big problem.
 
3     The ocean covers 70% of the Earth's surface. The ocean has different layers in it like a big, watery-blue layer cake. These layers are called zones. The top zone has a happy name. It is the sunshine zone. It goes down about 600 feet.

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Extended Activities:

1.  Draw a picture of the sunshine zone of the ocean. Include at least two animals and two fish in your picture.

2.  Does your family recycle anything? If yes, explain how you do it. If not, write about a plan that your family could do to start recycling.


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