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Space Junk: Cleaning Up the Sky Above Earth
Space Junk: Cleaning Up the Sky Above Earth is a narrated read-aloud picture book at guided-reading Level G for ages 5–7, 15 pages long and about 3 minutes to read aloud. Every word highlights as it's read, so a growing reader can follow along.
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Page 1High above Earth, something silent is floating. Thousands of broken objects circle our planet. Scientists call this messy cloud space junk.
Page 2Long ago, engineers launched satellites into space. Many satellites still work, sending us signals. But some satellites stopped working years ago.
Page 3Old satellites become part of the junk. They drift and spin, with no power left. Nobody can turn them off or fix them.
Words to practise
This book has a Spell-Along set — these words are built sound by sound after reading.
