Combining Like Ideas

Combine the similar information and create one sentence!



It was discovered by a female scientist. Her name was Marie Currie.






How can we combine them? How are they related?

Combine the similar information and create one sentence!



It was discovered by a female scientist. Her name was Marie Currie.



It was discovered by a female scientist named Marie Curie.

Radium was not fully understood when it was first discovered. No one realized it was radioactive and harmful at the time. For example, radium was used to paint watch hands. This made the hands glow in the dark. The women who painted the watches with radium all got very sick from the radiation. Those women are often called "glowing girls" because they left work covered in the glowing radium.



What do the sentences have in common?

For example, radium was used to paint watch hands. This made the hands glow in the dark.


How can we combine those ideas? How are they related?

For example, radium was used to paint watch hands. This made the hands glow in the dark.


For example, radium was used to paint watch hands because it made them glow in the dark.

Read Amazing Armadillos: Nature's Living Tanks

Orange = Repetitive

​(1) One of the most amazing things about armadillos is that they can hold their breath for up to 4 minutes. (2) This helps them when they cross small streams by walking underwater. (3) Sometimes they float across the streams.


Combine the ideas in sentences 2 and 3 to create one clear and effective sentence.

Orange = Repetitive

​(1) One of the most amazing things about armadillos is that they can hold their breath for up to 4 minutes. (2) This helps them when they cross small streams by walking underwater. (3) Sometimes they float across the streams.





​(1) One of the most amazing things about armadillos is that they can hold their breath for up to 4 minutes. (2) This helps them when they cross small streams by walking underwater or floating across the stream.