Mummies
These are the two ways to make mummies.
In this country, people have reported sighting a strange creature in Loch Ness.
What is Scotland?
This is the country where Columbus was born.
What is Italy?
This is the definition of main idea.
What is the the text is mostly about or what the author is trying to teach us about the topic?
These are the four criteria for determining if a book is just right.
What are interest, words, voice, and talk?
This is the process of animals or bacteria eating away at a dead body.
What is decay?
Over this many years ago, the first person reported sighting a strange creature in Loch Ness.
What is one thousand (1,000)?
These were the patrons who paid for Columbus's expedition.
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain?
This is one strategy for figuring out main, main, main ideas.
What is look for repeating words, phrases, and images?
This is an informational book told in the form of a story.
What is narrative nonfiction?
This was the most famous manmade mummy ever discovered.
Who was King Tut?
This is how scientists have attempted to get an image of the creature.
What is by photograph and by using sonar scanners?
This was how Columbus avoided a mutiny on his voyage.
What is by keeping a second logbook that showed fewer miles traveled?
Look here! This is another strategy for determining main ideas. Don't forget to look at that picture!
What is study the start and the text features?
These are the two filters readers of narrative nonfiction should use.
What are story filter and information filter?
This is one reason why people mummified their dead.
What is belief in the afterlife?
This is what causes capturing an image of the Loch Ness Monster difficult.
What is the deep, murky water?
This is where Columbus was trying to go and where he ended up.
What is the Indies (Asia) and the "New World" (America)?
This was one of the author's main ideas in Mummies.
What is ... ?
This is how readers make inferences.
What is by connecting interesting and important details in the text to what they already know?
This is one culture who has used mummification.
What is China or Egypt?
This is the reason the author kept referring to the Loch Ness Monster as a "creature."
What is because nobody knows what it actually is?
Who are the Taino people?
This was one of the author's main ideas in the story of Christopher Columbus.
What is ... ?
This is a question readers can ask to analyze the author's point of view.
What is "Why did the author choose to tell this story?"