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Freedom for the Chilean Miners

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Have your class read this seven paragraph article about Chilean miners who were trapped and freed from a mine. There are five comprehension questions, a verb-to-noun matching exercise, a role-play suggestion, and a creative writing task associated with the passage. 

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main ideas, central ideas, verbs, parts of speech, informational texts, current events

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chilean miners, current events, main idea, verbs, Discussion, reading informational text, writing narrative text, noun collocations, english language arts
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7th - 9th
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