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Author's Purpose & Reasons to Support a Point
Text Features & Diagrams
Who, What, Where, When, Why & How
Causes
Main Idea & Story Structure
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What does the author compare the height of Redwood trees to?
What is a 30-story building
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Page 7- What is the part that holds the tree in place?
What are the roots
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Page 5- How do leaves make food for trees?
By changing energy from sunlight into food
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Page 6- What causes the color of leaves to change in the fall?
The leaves stop making chlorophyll
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Page 13- What happens after the seed soaks up water?
The seed sends out a root.
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Page 11- What is the reason for why the author talks about maple syrup for breakfast?
Because it comes from the sap of a maple tree
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Page 10- What are nutrients?
Things from the soil and food that living things use to stay healthy and grow
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Page 10- Why are trees stuck in the ground?
Because their roots reach deep into the ground
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What causes a tree to keep growing even if the middle is hollowed out after a lightening strike?
The bark protects the highways in the tree
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What is the main idea of page 15?
To explain the main things that trees do.
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Page 7- What are branches?
Branches are the arms that hold up a tree's leaves
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Page 8- What protects trees?
What are layers of bark
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Page 12- How are cones from conifer trees and flowers from deciduous trees alike?
They both make seeds to grow more trees.
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What causes a tree to grow?
Water and sunlight
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What is the main topic of the story "About Trees?"
To inform the reader about the different parts of a tree and how trees grow.
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On page 4, find one SUFFIX
HeaviEST
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Page 8-9- Where are the tubes of the tree located?
In the trunk of the tree
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Page 14- How do trees make their own food?
By changing sunlight and air into sugars
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Page 14- Name a part of a tree that can be eaten
Sap, fruit, seeds
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Page 14- What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
Animals that make their homes in trees, and the parts of trees that are used for food.
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Find a noun on page 14
Answers vary
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On what page can I find information on Sap?
Page 11
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Page 5- Which words help you "see" the leaves of the deciduous trees?
Wide, thin
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Page 13- Identify one VERB from this page
Answers vary
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What word means "to begin growing?"
Sprout