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The sailors of Boston Harbor missed Stormy and Stormy missed them and the sea. After a while, he headed back to Boston Harbor. The sailors were so happy to see him that they worked together to build a ship that was big enough for him. Stormy named the ship The Coarser .
Cut out the sentence fragments and put them in order to learn more about Stormy’s ship.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Sequence events in a story correctly.
STORMALONG ALFRED BULLTOP TIDAL CLIPPER
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.
Stormy’s ship carried cargo across the Atlantic. Once, when he came to a narrow passage in the English Channel near the town of Dover, the crew quickly deter- mined that the ship was too wide to fit through the passage.
A S G I A N T T L
C D S M
L N T S E N A A P
I P O T L L U B A
P E R R T O E T S
P B M S S G W I S
E G A L F R E D A
R M L W
E E O A S C B L E
L T N O T S O B E
BLEW GIANT FATHOMS BOSTON MAST SWAB CARGO PASSAGE
“Get all the soap you can find!” bellowed Stormy. “Swab the sides of the ship until they are as slippery as a wet fish!” Stormy was able to slide the slippery hull of his ship through the passage. The soap scrubbed the cliffs so clean that they are sparkling white to this day.
Use the code to discover the name of these cli s:
O H T A F
Y A L A G
NEST STEM
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
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