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Different

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Instructions: Compare and contrast the Tohono Oodham and the Bedouins. Write in the two topics you are comparing on the lines below. Write the
details that tell how the topics are different in the outer circles. Write details that tell how the topics are alike where the circles overlap.

Name
DESERT PEOPLE LEVEL W 1
SKILL: COMPARE AND CONTRAST

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about

above

across

after

against

along

among

around

at

before

behind

below

beneath

beside

besides

between

beyond

but

by

down

during

except

for

from

in

inside

into

like

near

of

off

on

out

over

past

since

through

throughout

to

toward

under

underneath

until

up

upon

with

within

1. The sun bakes

2. The land is rocky

3. Some Native Americans live

4. The Gobi Desert is windy

5. In the Sahara Desert, you can find sand dunes

6. They watch the sun rise

7. Thunder and lightning fill the sky

8. Insects, birds, and rabbits live

9. The dry sands flood

10. In the mountains, they found resources

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SKILL: PREPOSITIONS

aboard

DESERT PEOPLE LEVEL W 2

Instructions: Use the list of prepositions below to think of your own endings for the sentences. On the
numbered lines, the sentences are started for you. Add a preposition from the list below, and finish each sentence
in your own words.

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Examples:
25
350

twenty-five
three hundred fifty

33

DESERT PEOPLE LEVEL W 3

Instructions: Write the words to show how you would read these numbers aloud.

504
2.6
15
345
280
122
10
6.7

SKILL: NUMBER WORDS

99
132
527
12
3.4
88
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