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Instructions: Use clues from the book and what you already know to make inferences and draw conclusions about the water cities in the book.

Text + Prior Knowledge = Inference

Water Cities • Level U • 1
Skill: Make Inferences / Draw Conclusions

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Instructions: Read the sentences below and decide whether they contain dashes or hyphens. Then, write
D for dash or H for hyphen on each line. If the sentence contains a dash, explain how the dash is used on
the line below the sentence.

Water Cities • Level U • 2

1. Water cities are located near—or in—oceans, seas, bays, lakes, and rivers
on every continent except Antarctica.

2. Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, a country with roughly

one-third of its land below sea level.

3. Singapore is made up of sixty-three islands.

4. One of Dubai’s largest construction projects is Palm Islands—three

artificial islands shaped like palm trees.

5. Mexcaltitán is a small human-made island near the Pacific coast of Mexico.

6. It sits on a 400-meter (1,300 ft.) sandbar off Mexico’s coast.

7. Auckland’s nickname—the “City of Sails”—is fitting since many residents

own a boat.
Skill: Dashes

8. Water cities can be on human-made or natural islands.

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Instructions: Use the words in the word box to create seven open compound words. Then, use each open
compound word in a sentence below.

Open Compound Words:

Water Cities • Level U • 3

vice rights
1.
waiting capsule
2.
school president
3.
time puzzle
4.
life bus
5.
jigsaw room
6.
civil span
7.

My Sentences:

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Skill: Open Compound Words

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