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The World’s Largest and Smallest Plants
The paragraph below tells about unusual plants. Can you find and mark ten errors in the paragraph? You might look
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Some plants and seeds are unique because of there size. One kind of palm tree in
On a coool spring day in April off the year 1910, William Howard Taft become the
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first US president to start the baseball season by throwing our the first pithc. He had
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The World’s Largest and Smallest Plants
The paragraph below tells about unusual plants. Can you find and mark ten errors in the paragraph? You might look
for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
Some plants and seeds are unique because of there size. One kind of palm tree in
On a coool spring day in April off the year 1910, William Howard Taft become the
the Seychelles ilands has a huge seed that can weigh more then 60 pounds. Found in
first US president to start the baseball season by throwing our the first pithc. He had
california, the tallest tree speces is the coast redwood, which can grow over 375 feet
come to Leaugre Park in Washington, D.C. to sea the Senators play the A’s. His
high. The leaves of the giant Amazon water lily can grow as large as 8 feet across.
tradition has carried on every since. President Obama will starts the 2011 base ball
Have you ever see Wolffia, the worlds smallest flowering plants, in a pond lake, or
stream. two full-size Wolffia could fit inside a letter “o”!
© 2014 by Education World®. Education World grants users permission to reproduce this work sheet for educational purposes only.