General questions
Pages 94-98
Pages 99-104
Pages 105-115
Text Features
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What is sap?
What is a tree's sugary juices
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What changes occur to a tree during the spring? What are buds?
What is in the spring, the buds on the branches unfold into leaves. A bud is a small growth on a plant that blossoms into a leaf or flower.
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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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What gives you more information about a picture

Caption


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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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How does a leaf help a tree?
What is a leaf makes food for the tree. A kind of sugar is made in the leaves. Trees use the sugar as food.
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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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This gives you information on the side

Sidebar

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Who is the author of "A Tree Is Growing?
What is Arthur Dorros
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Can you name the text and graphic features on pages 76 and 77? How do these features help you?
What is there are illustrations of the leaves as well as the sap that oozes out of a tree. Each leaf is labeled with its name. These features help me to identify the different leaves as well as visualize the sap.
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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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You use these to learn about different parts of a picture

labels

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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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This feature helps you see

Pictures

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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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How does sidebar help show how the the African Baobab keeps water?

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