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Water can be a solid, a liquid or a gas. When it's very cold, water freezes into ice. When it warms up, the ice melts back into liquid water. If you heat water enough, it boils and turns into steam, which is a gas. The water itself doesn't disappear; it just changes form. That's why a puddle slowly dries up on a sunny day. The water hasn't vanished – it has floated into the air as water vapor.
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Water can be a solid, a liquid or a gas. When it's very cold, water freezes into ice. When it warms up, the ice melts back into liquid water. If you heat water enough, it boils and turns into steam, which is a gas. The water itself doesn't disappear; it just changes form. That's why a puddle slowly dries up on a sunny day. The water hasn't vanished – it has floated into the air as water vapor.
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Plants make their own food using sunlight. This process is called photosynthesis. A plant takes in carbon dioxide from the air through tiny openings in its leaves and draws water up through its roots. Using energy from light, it turns these simple ingredients into sugar, which it uses to grow. Oxygen is released as a by-product. In a way, every breath we take depends on green plants and algae quietly doing this work all around the world.
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Sound is made by vibrations. When you pluck a guitar string, it moves back and forth very quickly, pushing on the air around it. Those pushes travel outward as waves until they reach your ear, where they make your eardrum vibrate too. Your brain turns those vibrations into the sound you hear. Faster vibrations give higher notes, and slower ones give lower notes. Sound needs something to travel through, such as air or water, which is why space is silent.
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A rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops. White light is actually a mixture of many colors. As light enters a drop of water, it bends; different colors bend by slightly different amounts, so they spread apart. The light reflects off the back of the drop and bends again on its way out. To see a rainbow, you need the sun behind you and rain in front of you. In the main bow, red always appears on the outer edge and violet on the inner edge.
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Magnets have two ends, called poles: north and south. If you bring two magnets together, opposite poles pull toward each other, while matching poles push apart. Magnets attract some metals, such as iron, but not others, such as aluminum or copper. The Earth itself behaves like a giant magnet, which is why a compass needle points roughly north. Sailors and explorers relied on this simple fact for centuries to find their way across land and sea.
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Everything around you is made of atoms – tiny particles far too small to see, even with an ordinary microscope. Atoms join together to form molecules. A molecule of water, for example, is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Different combinations of atoms make different substances: the air you breathe, the paper in a book, the metal in a spoon. Scientists have identified more than a hundred kinds of atoms, called elements, and they're arranged in a chart known as the periodic table.
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The moon doesn't make its own light. It shines because sunlight bounces off its surface. As the moon travels around the Earth, we see different amounts of its sunlit side. That's why it seems to change shape over about a month, from a thin crescent to a full, round circle and back again. These shapes are called phases. The moon always keeps the same face turned toward us, so we never see its far side from Earth.
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Friction is the force that resists motion when two surfaces rub against each other. Without it, life would be very strange: you couldn't walk without slipping, cars couldn't brake, and a pencil couldn't leave a mark on paper. Rough surfaces usually create more friction than smooth ones. Friction also produces heat, which is why rubbing your hands together on a cold day warms them up. Engineers sometimes want more friction, as with tires and shoe soles, and sometimes less, as with oiled machine parts.
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Gravity is the force that pulls objects toward each other. It's why a dropped ball falls to the ground and why we don't float off into space. The bigger an object's mass, the stronger its pull. The Earth's gravity keeps the moon in orbit, and the sun's gravity keeps the Earth and the other planets traveling around it. On the moon, gravity is much weaker than on Earth, so astronauts there could bounce along in giant, slow-motion steps.
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Volcanoes form where melted rock from deep underground finds a way to the surface. This molten rock is called magma while it's below ground and lava once it erupts. Some volcanoes explode violently, throwing ash and rock high into the sky; others ooze rivers of lava more gently. Over time, layers of cooled lava and ash can build up into tall mountains. Although eruptions can be dangerous, volcanic soil is often very rich, which is one reason farmers have long lived near volcanoes.
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Scientists learn about the world by asking questions and testing their ideas. They start with an observation, suggest a possible explanation called a hypothesis, and then design an experiment to check it. A good experiment changes only one thing at a time, so the results are clear. If the evidence doesn't support the idea, the scientist rethinks it. Results are shared so that others can repeat the work and see whether they get the same answer. This careful, patient process is what makes scientific knowledge reliable.
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Because the topics are familiar, the paragraphs are easy to read and type without stopping to puzzle over strange words. The word count is shown with each one, so you always know how much text you're working with.
Typing practice paragraphs with capital letters, commas and periods train your fingers for real writing, not just single words. Start with a short paragraph and build up to longer ones as your accuracy improves. Time yourself, then use the word count to work out your speed.
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Short paragraphs are a good size for reading practice. Read one aloud, then read it again a little more smoothly – kids and English learners both benefit.
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Last updated October 2, 2026