Name

Evidence:

To Entertain

What Is Water Worth? Level T 1

Instructions: Think about the authors purpose for writing What Is Water Worth? and then check the
appropriate boxes. Write examples from the text that support each purpose in the Evidence column.

Evidence:

To Inform

To Persuade

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Skill: Authors Purpose

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1 The worlds water is an important resource.

2 In some countries, getting water from
a houses faucet is easy.

3 In some countries, water supplies are

too low to meet peoples needs.

4 Humans can only use 1 percent of the

Earths freshwater.

What Is Water Worth? Level T 2

Instructions: Circle the possessive noun in each sentence. Write the object of the possessive noun on the line next
to the sentence. Then, on the lines provided write two sentences of your own that each contain a possessive noun.

5 Pollutions impact on water can cause

serious health problems.

6 Water supply is further impacted by the

populations growth.

7 The Mediterraneans regions are at high

risk for drought.

8 Our planets climate is changing and

affecting the water.

9 Each persons efforts to save water can help.

bk Solving the worlds water problem is hard,
but not impossible.
Skill: Possessive Nouns

My sentences:
1.

2.

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53 billion
379
October 30, 2011
1,514 liters
January 1999
2035

one thousand five hundred fourteen liters

January nineteen ninety-nine
fifty-three billion
two thousand thirty-five
three hundred seventy-nine

What Is Water Worth? Level T 3

Instructions: Match each number with the correct word equivalent. Then, read and write the numbers below.

October thirtieth two thousand eleven

six hundred twenty-two 

forty-five point three 
March fifth, nineteen seventy-eight 
nine thousand, five hundred twelve 

Skill: Number Words

three point sixty-four 

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