Hatching Chicks
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the paragraph? You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
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Hatching Chicks
The paragraph below tells about something special that often happens in spring. Can you find and mark ten errors in
the paragraph? You might look for errors of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar.
Chicken eggs takes 21 days to hatch. There home is a incubator, which keeps the
On a coool spring day in April off the year 1910, William Howard Taft become the
air warm and moist. Using a sharp “egg tooth” on its beak, each chick starts to “pip”
first US president to start the baseball season by throwing our the first pithc. He had
(peck)
come to the inner Park
Leaugre shell in
membrane on day
Washington, [Link]
D.C. seachick breaths play
the Senators air inthe
side theHis
A’s. shell and
makes it’s
tradition haslungs stronger.
carried in since.
on every the next two days,
President the chick
Obama will will
startspip
thethe outer
2011 shell
base ball
thousand’s of times. Finally, the shell will brake completely, leting the chick out.
© 2014 by Education World®. Education World grants users permission to reproduce this work sheet for educational purposes only.