1. Vocabulary

2. splinters sharp, thin pieces that have broken off something
Mrs. Murphy was lucky she was wearing gloves so the splinter of glass didn’t go into her finger.

3. telegraph
a device used to send words in code from one place to another
This is a Western Electric telegraph.

4. trail a path through the wilderness
My brother and his family hiked on a mountain trail in Switzerland.

5. guided led others to where they needed to go
This man guided us through our tour of San Francisco.

6. drifts large piles of snow heaped up by the wind
The snow drifts were higher than the trees!

7. temperature the measure of how hot or cold something is
The temperature was so cold that the lake froze.

8. I prefer the warm ___________ of the beach.
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9. The snow ______ covered the cars.
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10. _________ can be painful to remove.
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11. Our teacher ______ us through our reading lesson.
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12. The Virginia Creeper _____ follows an old train track.
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13. Mr. Smith was a _________ operator.
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