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DIRECTIONS: Read the paragraphs below that explain why leaves change color. But read them carefully! See whether you can find ten mistakes. The mistakes might be mistakes of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or grammar. Can you find all ten? Mark all the mistakes you find. Make the change to fix each mistake.

Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall

Plants make their own food. they take water from the ground through their roots.

They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air They turn water and carbon dioxide into food useing sunlight and something called chlorophyll.

Chlorophyll is green. It gaves leaves their green color.

Winter days are short and dri. Many plants stop making food in the fall. The chlorophyll goes away.

then we can see orange and yellow colors. Those colors was in the leaves all summer, but the green covered them up.

Some leaves turn read. This color is made in the fall from food trapped in the leaves.

Brown colors are also made in the fall. They come from wastes left in the leaves

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