edHelper.com
 Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado

Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 5 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   8.35

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    coup, democracy, constitutional, knowledgeable, demonstration, expansion, emergence, establishment, civil, commander, democratic, improve, leader, political, government, people
     content words:    In Paraguay, Camilo Soares Machado, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, General Lino Oviedo, President Wasmosy, Camilo Soares, Youth Have Given Us, General Oviedo

Print Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado
     Print Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado  (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more)

Quickly Print
     Quickly print reading comprehension

Proofreading Activity
     Print a proofreading activity

Feedback on Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado
     Leave your feedback on Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado  (use this link if you found an error in the story)

Paraguay - Culture: Camilo Soares Machado
By Ekaterina Zhdanova-Redman 		  
1     Do people ever tell you that you are too young to do things? Do they sometimes say you are too young to understand other things? In Paraguay, half of the people are under 15 years old, so it is important for young people to be very knowledgeable about their country. Working together, young people have done much to improve their country. Led by Camilo Soares Machado, they once even prevented a coup!
 
2     In April 1996, Paraguay's president, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, dismissed army commander General Lino Oviedo for breaking the law. Many people believed that Oviedo's supporters would try to take over the government. Suddenly, it seemed that all the progress that had been made in constitutional reforms, the expansion of civil liberties, the emergence of citizens' organizations, and the birth of new political parties could be wiped out in a matter of hours. No one knew what to do. Everyone wanted to hide. President Wasmosy went to the U.S. government for protection.
 
3     The young people of Paraguay knew they had to do something. Camilo Soares, who had been active in the youth movement since he was 15, was their leader. He put ads in newspapers asking young people to come out into the streets of Asuncion to show that they wanted to live in a free, democratic country.

Paragraphs 4 to 7:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable
Weekly Reading Books

          Create Weekly Reading Books

Prepare for an entire week at once!

More Activities, Lesson Plans, and Worksheets


Back to School
Graphic Organizers
Alphabet Worksheets
Sight Words
Math Worksheets
Mazes
50 States

Monthly Themes
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Fractions
Place Value
Time and Calendar
Money
Earth Day
Solar System
Analogies
Nouns
Following Directions
Listening
Capitalization
Cursive Writing
Patterns and Sequencing
Dinosaurs
All About Me

Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Multiplication
Division
Main Idea
Cause and Effect
Measurement
Decimals
Rounding
Order of Operations
Verbs
Community Helpers
Adjectives
Plants
Grammar
Addition and Subtraction
Contractions
Bulletin Board Ideas
Word Searches
Crossword Puzzles
Printable Puzzles

Reading Comprehension
Reading Skills
English Language Arts



Copyright © 2011 edHelper