Brick and Mortar Words
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Brick and Mortar Words
Read the passage
On Saturday, Harper and Hiroshi helped at the neighborhood recycling drive. They carried flattened boxes to a large collection bin and sorted clean bottles by material. Emily noticed that some cans were mixed with the paper. The friends carefully moved each can to the metal bin because sorting materials correctly helps them get reused. By noon, the team had filled six bins and kept a pile of useful materials out of the landfill.
Find the bricks and mortar
Use the passage for Questions 1–6. For this worksheet, brick words are the important people, things, actions, and details. Mortar words are smaller connecting or grammar words.
- They were folded or pressed flat.
- They were full of bottles.
- They were made of metal.
- They were too heavy to carry.
- clean and sorted
- the and by
- some and with
- they and were
- Harper, bottles, sorted
- and, the, to
- by, because, some
- they, each, with
Use the strategy
Brick words help readers hold onto the main ideas. Mortar words show the relationships between those ideas.
- Friends sorted recyclable materials carefully at a neighborhood drive.
- Saturday came before Sunday.
- Some words in sentences are short.
- A bin can have many different shapes.
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