Paragraphs
Grammar/Spelling
Prefixes and Suffixes
Animals
Comprehension
100
How should an informative paragraph start?
Topic sentence to introduce your topic
100
The father lizard crawled along the sandy desert floor with six tiny babies.
Identify the nouns.
lizard, floor, babies
100
What does the suffix "-ology" mean?
The study of
100
Echidnas are a type of spiny anteater that live in Australia and New Guinea. They have coarse hair, breathe with lungs, lay eggs, and have milk for their babies. Why are they considered a pattern breaker for mammals?
They lay eggs, most mammals give birth to live young.
100
Most reptiles lay eggs, while most mammals give birth to live young.
What clue word tells you the writer is contrasting two things? What two things?
"while"
reptiles and mammals
200
How should an informative paragraph end?
It should end with a concluding sentence that wraps up the entire paragraph
200
The father lizard crawled along the sandy desert floor with six tiny babies.
Identify the adjectives.
father, sandy, desert, six, tiny
200
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Explain the word's meaning.
My little brother threw his dinner all over the floor. It was an ____ event.
A. unsafe
B. nonfiction
C. unexpected
C. unexpected
un = not
throwing food is not expected
200
Red pandas mostly sleep during the day. They are nocturnal.
What does nocturnal mean?
They are active at night
200
Read the passage. How do Komodo dragons find their food?
They use their tongue to smell dead animals or to sense animals to hunt.
300
Pretend you're writing a paragraph on why snakes are reptiles. Write three reasons you could include in the paragraph.
Snakes have scales. They are cold-blooded. They lay eggs.
300
The father lizard crawled along the sandy desert floor with six tiny babies.
Identify the verb(s).
crawled
300
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Explain the word's meaning.
I walked by a dog growling and showing its teeth. It scared me because it looked _____.
A. nonthreatening
B. unfriendly
C. nonstop
B. unfriendly
un= not, the dog is growling and does not seem friendly
300
Describe at least two physical characteristics of birds that help them to fly.
They're bones are hollow, so they have structure but are light enough to fly. Their feathers also help them fly. Finally, they're warm-blooded--they need a ton of energy to fly and their metabolism helps them.
300
What is a carnivore? What context clue helped you?
Animals that eat meat. It says, "they eat mainly meat" after the word carnivore.
400
Now, write a full paragraph on why snakes are classified as reptiles. Be sure to include everything you need in a paragraph!
Snakes are classified as reptiles. The first reason they are considered reptiles is because they are cold-blooded, meaning they cannot regulate their own body temperature. Also, they are covered by scales. Finally, they're reptiles because they lay eggs. Those are the reasons scientists have classified snakes as reptiles.
400
Pippin and Henry raced up the steep stairs and then Henry jumped on top of him while an angry Pippin hissed.
Identify the adjective(s).
steep, angry
400
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Explain the word's meaning.
I didn't write in my neatest handwriting, so now my teacher said I have to ____ the paragraph during recess.
A. undo
B. rewrite
C. unfair
B. rewrite, re= again
You have to write again because it was messy
400
Why do fish and young amphibians have gills?
Gills help them breathe. They take in the oxygen from the water.
400
What is saliva? What context clue helped you?
Saliva is spit. The sentence before says, "lick you" so I think saliva is the spit on an animal's tongue.
500
Read the paragraph below. Figure out what it's missing. Rewrite it to make it better.
Cats are mammals. They are warm-blooded. They have fur. They give milk to their young. That's why cats are mammals.
Cats are mammals. The first reason they're mammals is because they're warm-blooded. Next, they have fur. Finally, they give milk to their young. That's why cats are classified as mammals.
500
Pippin and Henry raced up the steep stairs and then Henry jumped on top of him while an angry Pippin hissed.
Identify the verb(s).
raced, jumped, hissed
500
Knowing the suffix "-ology," what does the word zoology mean?
-ology= the study of
zoo = animals
the study of animals
500
Some salamanders are called indicator species. This means they are very sensitive and can tell you how polluted (or not polluted) an area is. If there are a lot of salamanders in an area, it's probably not polluted! Many salamanders are lungless. They don't have gills, but instead absorb water (and oxygen) through their skin. Why do you think these salamanders are a good indicator of whether or not an area is polluted?
If they absorb water through their skin, they would also absorb pollution in the water. They probably wouldn't survive a lot of pollution, so whether or not they live in a place can tell scientists if that place is polluted.
500
What does the author mean when they say, "unless you are very brave or very foolish"?
They mean that you would have to be okay with danger (brave) because of how strong and dangerous Komodo dragons are. If you're not brave, you're not very smart to mess with one in the wild!