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 The Badlands

The Badlands
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 4 to 6
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   5.32

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    canyons, erosion, strange-looking, tribe, terrain, bison, describe, early, surface, erode, narrow, loose, though, exist, between, different
     content words:    Sioux Nation, South Dakota, United States, Theodore Roosevelt National Monument, North Dakota, Toadstool Geologic Park, Badlands National Park, National Park

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The Badlands
By Kathleen W. Redman 		  
1     What are the Badlands? Are the Badlands really bad? Where are the Badlands?
 
2     Many years ago, French trappers - crossing areas where it seemed nothing grew - said that they were "bad lands to cross." The Lakota, a tribe of the Sioux Nation, called them "mako sica," which means "bad lands." Today the Badlands are explored by tourists instead of by trappers.
 
3     When someone speaks of the badlands, most people think of the Badlands in South Dakota. That is not the only place lands like that exist, though. Badlands are found in prairie areas of the United States and Canada.

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