Name________________________
You will be reading social studies information
telling how the first people lived. This will not be easy for you to
understand because all of the capital letters and punctuation marks have been
omitted. Read through the information carefully. Underline each
letter 3 times that should be capitalized. Put in all of the necessary
punctuation marks. All of the paragraphs have been left out, too.
Indicate where each new paragraph should begin.
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the first people
the first people did not live the way we live today they did not grow food or live in houses they did not read or write in this article you will learn how the first people lived archaeologists help us learn about people of long ago archaeologists are men and women who dig into the earth they find and study the bones of people who lived thousands of years ago the bones tell how people of long ago looked and how they lived archaeologists have also found animal bones from long ago some of these bones were used as tools for hunting archaeologists have found tools used by people who lived during the stone age it is called the stone age because most of the tools were made of stone stone tools lasted longer and were stronger than tools made of bone or wood the stone age began more than 2000000 years ago it ended about 5000 years ago the people who lived then are called stone age people
_____ Did you divide the selection into 3 paragraphs?
_____ Did you punctuate 15 sentences?
_____ Did you use 3 commas?
If not, go back, find your mistakes, and correct them.