Lines Can

Make Shapes
By Clark Ness
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Reading Level: Lexile

Measure 140L
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 3.4
Nonfiction
There was a line.
1
There were two
lines. They came
together and made
an angle.
2
There were three
lines. They came
together and made
a triangle.
3
There were four
lines. They came
together and made
a rectangle.
4
There were five
lines. They came
together and made
a pentagon.
5
There were six
lines. They came
together and made
a hexagon.
6
There were seven
lines. They came
together and made
a heptagon.
7
There were eight
lines. They came
together and made
an octagon.
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