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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020
© 2020 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 36, No. 27
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missing words.
Columbia
Veterinary
Hospital
576 31st Street • Astoria
503-325-2250
Long ago, heading out to sea was an adventure
People believed that the earth was ______ into the unknown.
_. They thought if you
sailed too far away from land, you would sail righ
t off the ______
of the planet!
It took great _________ to head across
the ocean in a small ship. When sailors
looked into the deep, dark sea from the
_______ of a ship, they imagined strange
and scary ____________ swimming ther
One of the scariest stories told and retold through e.
generations of __________ was the legend
of the
terrible, mighty Kraken!
he Kraken is a lege
monster of gigant ndary octopus-like sea
folklore. For hundre ic size in Scandinavian
a huge, many-armed ds of years, sailors told stories of
top of a ship’s main m creature that could reach the
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ship, creating a whirlp swim in fast circles around the
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the Kraken never ende e stories, or legends, meeting
d well for the sailors.
In some stories about the Kraken is was said that it
could float on top of the water and look like
a group of islands.
How many fish
can you find on
this page?
ike many legends, stories about the Kraken
probably started with something real. It may
have been based on sightings of a real species
of squid called the colossal squid.
Hold this page up to a mirror to use
your peepers to read this paragraph:
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Swim around the Kraken to
reach the treasure chest!
Exaggerate!
Find five adjectives
in today’s newspaper.
Make a chart by
writing the adjectives
in one column and
the noun each one
describes in the next
column over. Then
change each
adjective and add
words to each to
exaggerate the
meaning of the noun
they are describing.
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NORTHWEST
READY MIX
Standards Link:
Language Arts: Vocabulary
Development.
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Find the two identical
scared sailors.
CREATURES
ENCOUNTER
COLOSSAL
FAMILIAR
SAILORS
STORIES
KRAKEN
LEGEND
RETOLD
WHALES
SQUID
SHIP
REAL
MEAL
EDGE
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Great
Ocean
A E K P L D S R L E
I A R A I T A D A T
Da Yang
Seafoods LTD.
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O M Q R T N S O S U
R S I K E A E T O O
S E E G D E E E L C
S N E K A R K R O N
N L S E L A H W C E
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
La MEXICAN
C abana
D R aya
RESTAURANT
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325 Marlin Avenue
WARRENTON
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Stretch a Headline
Choose a headline from the newspaper. Add
words to the headline to make it longer and
say basically the same thing. For example:
Mayor Leads in Polls becomes Popular
Mayor Leads Rivals in Latest Polls.
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TEAM work makes the dream work
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following
businesses
for supporting
Newspapers
In Education
• Astoria Granite Works
• Beach Books
• Bridgewater Bistro
• Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare
• Clatsop County Fair
• El Catrin Mexican Restaurant
• Elements by the Sea
• Fibre Federal Credit Union
• Hampton Lumber Mills
• Hees Enterprises Inc.
• JJ Electric Service
• Jonathon’s LTD
• Laser Print & Copy
• Lower Columbia River Chief Petty
Officer Association
• Moberg & Rust, Attorneys at Law
• North Coast Home Care
• Premium Adjustable Beds
Home Furnishings
1033 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
(503) 325-5620
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3447 HWY 101 N
Gearhart, OR
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