General questions
Pages 16-
Pages 79-84
Pages 86-92
Seen from video
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What is sap?
What is a tree's sugary juices
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How does Mr. Keene feel about the students, teachers, and school? Find specific examples from the text.
What is Mr. Keene loves the school. He thinks the teachers and students are great. He states “Aren’t these fine children? Aren’t these fine teachers? Isn’t this a fine, fine school?”
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What is shown in the diagram on page 79? Why is this important? Use the text to support your explanation.
What is the diagram shows the water inside the tree. The text says that trees need sunlight, air, soil and water to grow. Water moves up the trunk as if it is being sucked through like a straw.
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What happens to a tree as it grows that makes its trunk look longer? How does a tree grow?
What is as a tree grows, lower branches may fall off, making the trunk of the tree look longer. A tree grows taller only at the top.
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The trail guide taught the children about trees with opposite branches. Which trees have opposite branches?
What is Maple, Dogwood, Ash and Chestnut Trees have opposite branches.
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How can text and graphic features help readers?
What is it gives more information to help better understand the topic.
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What does the word ‘fine” mean as used in this context on pg. 17? What words or phrases helped you determine the meaning?
What is Fine- excellent, admirable. “Mr. Keene loved his school. Every morning he strolled down the hallway and saw the children in the classes.” He saw them learning…reading and writing
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List three ways that roots help a tree.
What is roots grow into the ground and hold the tree in place. Roots absorb water and carry it into the tree. A root splits a rock as it grows, by doing this, it helps make soil.
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Look at the caption on page 88. What does the word pollen mean in this context? What word helped you understand the meaning of the word, pollen?
What is pollen is a powder that gets on an animal that is drinking sweet juices from flowers. The word that helped me understand the meaning is powder.
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How would a tree benefit from you blowing a kiss at it? What do we get from trees?
What is It would benefit because it would be receiving Carbon dioxide which trees need to grow. We get oxygen from trees.
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Who is the author of "A Tree Is Growing?
What is Arthur Dorros
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What pages does the author repeat words or phrases? Why do you think the author does this?
What is pages 20-21“This is such a fine, fine school! I love this school!” is repeated throughout pages 20-21. The author does this to show how Mr. Keene feels about the students, teachers and school that he admires so much. It adds humor to the story.
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What is the bark of a tree? Contrast the bark of a young tree to that of an older tree. What is different?
What is the bark is the skin of the tree. The bark of a young tree is as smooth as baby’s skin. The bark of an older tree is rough and cracked.
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What happens to the acorns that fall from an oak tree? Use the text to list three things.
What is acorns that fall from oak trees can be 1) carried away and dropped or buried by animals to grow in new places; 2)grow into oak trees; 3)Eaten
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What characteristics identify a tree?
What is leaves, seeds and bark identify a tree.
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What is the genre of the text
What is informational text/nonfiction
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What is tree sap? Would a tree have sap if it did not have leaves? Why/Why not?
What is sap is a tree juice that is food for the tree. A tree probably would NOT have sap if it did not have leaves because the sugar that is needed for the sap comes from the leaves.
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What is cambium? Describe the two layers of cambium.
What is cambium is a layer of growing bark underneath the external bark. The two layers of cambium are xylem ~ water moves from the roots to this layer and phloem ~ sap from the leaves moves through this layer.
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Contrast pine trees to trees that have leaves? How are they different?
What is pine trees do not have leaves. They have needles that do not change color. Most other trees have leaves that change color and eventually fall off.
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Why is it important to be able to recognize a maple tree in winter?
What is maple trees produce maple syrup in winter. There are no leaves on the trees in winter so knowing that a maple tree has opposite branches helps to identify the tree.
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What does personification mean?
What is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
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. Look at page 78. Explain why the Baobab tree looks swollen in the top picture, but thinner in the bottom picture.
What is The Baobab trees store water in the trunks. When a baobab tree trunk is swollen with water, it is round and fat. In dry weather, the tree gets water from the trunk. Then the trunk gets thinner.
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How would the growth rings on a tree living in an area with a long spring and summer differ from the rings on a tree living where spring and summer are very short? Use the text to support your answer.
What is the rings would be much bigger on the tree living where spring and summer are long because trees grow more in warm weather. The text said that cambium grows all year in tropical rain forests. Tropical rain forests only exist in warm climates.
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What added information does the paragraph, pictures, and labels on the left side of the page give about trees in cool climates?
What is the paragraph explains hat each tree has its own special color. The pictures show how the red, brown, yellow, and orange colors look in real leaves. The pictures also show the shapes of different kinds of leaves. The labels name the kind of tree on which the leaf grows.
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What is a dormant tree? What causes a tree to become dormant?
What is a dormant tree is a tree that is alive, but not actively growing. A tree can become dormant if it is not getting enough carbon dioxide, water and sunlight.
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