Vocabulary
Voyage
Voyage
The kamishibai storytellers were mobile and could perform in many places.
What does the word mobile mean in the sentence?
A. happily accepted by others
B. able to keep costs down
C. able to move easily
D. easily identified
C. able to move easily
This is the central point or message that a text is trying to communicate.
Main idea
This text feature appears at the top of a section and tells what the section is about.
A heading
This reading strategy involves putting events in the order they happened.
Sequencing
Both the black bear and the polar bear have small heads, rounded ears, and short tails. Although their heads, ears, and tails look the same, many other things about the way these bears look are different.
Small heads, rounded ears, and short tails.
The stage they used was a small wooden box that was big enough to hold their paintings. Kamishibai storytellers would ride to a spot and unpack their materials.
What are two examples of materials kamishibai storytellers used to perform shows?
A. adventure
B. a wooden stage
C. painted pictures
D. dragons on a string
E. different funny voices
B. a wooden stage
C. painted pictures
These specific pieces of information support and develop the main idea in a text.
Key details
These text features explain pictures or illustrations and provide additional information.
Captions
When one event makes another event happen, this relationship exists between them.
Cause and effect
Black bears most often live in forest areas in North America, where they eat mainly berries, grasses, roots, and insects. Sometimes, black bears will also eat fish, but meat is not the main part of their diet. Polar bears live in the Arctic, where it is icy and cold and few plants or berries grow. Because of that fact, polar bears mostly hunt for and eat seals.
Unlike black bears that eat mainly berries and plants, polar bears primarily eat this food.
Seals
When bears "roam in the woods," this word means they move around freely.
Roam
When you make this type of conclusion, you're using clues from the text to figure out something the author doesn't directly state.
Inference
This text feature is a visual representation that shows information in rows and columns.
A table?
In the sentence "The more people learn about bears, the more likely it is that they will take action," the word "action" means what?
something done to cause a change.
When fully grown, black bears measure between five and six feet long. Polar bears can grow to eight feet in length. Adult black bears can weigh 200–600 pounds, but polar bears can weigh more than 1,700 pounds! Even a small male polar bear weighs about 900 pounds when grown.
This feature BEST distinguishes a polar bear from a black bear according to the text.
size
In science texts, this word refers to the way animals act or the things they do, such as "polar bears' behavior does not change much in winter."
behavior
This is the reason an author writes a text, such as to inform, entertain, persuade, or explain.
Author's purpose
This text feature helps readers quickly find specific information by listing important words and the pages where they appear.
An index
When something from the past that people still think about is described as "just a memory," this is what the word "memory" means.
Something from the past that people still think about.
Part of the reason polar bears are so much larger than black bears is the different foods the two kinds of bears eat. Black bears most often live in forest areas in North America, where they eat mainly berries, grasses, roots, and insects. Sometimes, black bears will also eat fish, but meat is not the main part of their diet.
Polar bears live in the Arctic, where it is icy and cold and few plants or berries grow. Because of that fact, polar bears mostly hunt for and eat seals. However, polar bears will sometimes hunt for other animals, including fish, whales, and small walruses.
Both black bears and polar bears eat this type of food, though it's not the main part of either bear's diet.
fish
This type of language uses words that mean something different than their literal meaning, like when we say "raining cats and dogs."
figurative (or nonliteral) language
When the author writes "Children would come running like puppies about to get a treat," this literary device compares children to puppies.
Simile
These two text features help readers compare information about different subjects, like the bears in our reading, by organizing facts in a visual way.
Charts and tables
This is the reason an author might include the sentence "Children would come running like puppies about to get a treat" when describing kamishibai storytelling.
To show that children got excited about the storytelling.
Since it is cold year-round in the Arctic, polar bears’ behavior does not change much in the winter. Unlike black bears whose behavior changes in winter, polar bears' behavior stays consistent because of this environmental factor.
year-round cold in the Arctic