Reading Comprehension - Passage: Kid Inventors

Contributed by:
Ivan
A passage on some former children who made history with their youth inventions. This short reading passage about child inventors will inspire your students. It will also give them practice with nonfiction reading skills.

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Daniel - He
invented the
pogo stick that
footballs or

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9. CHARLOTTE FOLTZ JONES
ILLUSTRATED BY
JOHN O'BRIEN

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11. Pemberton —
tried to create a
medicine that helped
people who drank too




Instead he
accidentally made
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The Frisbee...
invented by some college
students who were toss
some Frisbee pie pans
around their campus
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S a fl invented Post-It
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ae to create a new

kind of glue
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Mary Anderson .
Windshield Wipers
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Bette Nesmith Graham -
Liquid Paper
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Ann Moore -
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Margaret E. Knight -
Paper Bags
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