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GRADE Reading Comprehension Fundamentals 3
CONTENTS Introduction What’s in Reading Comprehension Fundamentals? 4 Using Reading Comprehension Fundamentals in Your Classroom 5 Using Reading Comprehension Fundamentals to Reteach and Reinforce 6 Comprehension Activities for Nonfi ction Texts Main Idea and Details 7 Text Features and Visual Information 12 Description 17 Cause and Eff ect 21 Compare and Contrast 26 Sequence 31 Problem and Solution 36 Predict 40 Vocabulary 44 Summarize 49 Fact and Opinion 53 Make Inferences 57 Author’s Purpose 62 Nonfi ction Genre Study Expository Nonfi ction 67 Persuasive Nonfi ction 71 Narrative Nonfi ction 75 Descriptive Nonfi ction 79 2 Reading Comprehension Fundamentals • EMC 2423 • © Evan-Moor Corp. http://readtoshare.vn/
CONTENTS continued Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts Character 83 Setting 88 Plot 93 Th eme 98 Point of View 103 Vocabulary 107 Visual Information 111 Summarize 115 Make Inferences 119 Predict 124 Cause and Eff ect 128 Compare and Contrast 132 Dialogue 136 Simile and Metaphor 140 Fiction Genre Study Historical Fiction 145 Realistic Fiction 150 Fable 155 Fairy Tale 159 Answer Key 163 © Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 2423 • Reading Comprehension Fundamentals 3
Reading Comprehension Fundamentals is your resource for reading comprehension lessons that provide the foundation for instruction and practice of reading skills and genre study. Th e 35 skill-based units include fi ction and nonfi ction texts and a variety of practice items that provide rigorous grade-level practice. What’s in Reading Comprehension Fundamentals? Text structure is the way an author gives information. In a text with a cause-and-effect structure, the author explains the reasons that things happen. This sentence tells about a cause and its effects: If you wear dark colors, mosquitoes will find you more easily, so you get more mosquito bites as a result. the cause: wearing dark colors the effects: mosquitoes find you easily and you get more bites Read the paragraph. Then answer the items. Mosquito bites are the worst! They cause ugly lumps on your skin that itch a lot. Even though mosquito bites are common, you can take steps to avoid them. First, stay away from puddles and ponds. Second, wear bug spray on your skin. After you put it on, you will taste bad to mosquitoes. They may land on you, but they will probably fly away without biting. Third, try to go inside before the sun goes down. More mosquitoes are out at dusk, or just after sunset, than any other time of day. 1. Explain how a mosquito can cause you to feel uncomfortable. 2. If you do the things that the author suggests, what will be the effect? 3. If bug spray makes people taste bad to mosquitoes, then what is causing mosquitoes to bite people in the first place? Tell why you think so. 1 Nonfiction Cause and Effect © Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 2423 • Reading Comprehension Fundamentals Name Fun Facts About Our Moon Have you ever noticed the ways the moon changes? The moon can be bright or dull. Sometimes, we don’t see the moon in the sky at all! Other times, the moon shows up even when the sun is out. When the moon looks bright, it’s partly because of the sun. The moon has no light of its own. It only reflects the sun’s light. But how? Think about daytime. The sun makes everything around you bright with light. Even on a cloudy day, you see everything around you because of sunlight that gets through the clouds. During daytime, sunlight hits Earth’s surface and makes it bright. During nighttime, the sun is near another part of Earth’s surface, making that part bright, so you see darkness. At night, you also see the moon. In the same way that sunlight shines on Earth’s surface and makes it bright, sunlight shines on the moon’s surface and makes that bright. Even though you can’t see the sun at night, sunlight reaches the moon’s surface. closer to Earth. The moon also looks brighter on a clear night. Fog and clouds in the sky can make the moon look dimmer. The moon is always in the sky, but we don’t usually see it during daytime. One reason for this is that the sun is so powerful that it makes the sky very bright. The brightness makes the moon hard to see. Imagine turning on a flashlight in a dark room and aiming it at a wall. You would see the flashlight’s bright light clearly. Now, imagine turning on a flashlight in a room that already has all the lights on. You would hardly see the light from the flashlight because the other lights are more powerful. The moon becomes difficult to see in daytime for the same reason. The next time you see the big, bright moon in the sky, think of the sun shining its light onto it. As the sun sets, the moon starts to shine brighter in the dark sky. Nonfiction Text Cause and Effect 23 Name Fun Facts About Our Moon A text with a cause-and-effect structure tells the reasons that things happen. A cause is something that helps to make an effect happen. These signal words help tell about cause and effect: create leads reason makes because become Answer the items about the text you read. 1. The text explained .  effects that lead the sun to shine brightly  causes that make the moon look different sometimes  how darkness causes the moon to be in the sky  causes that make the sun look bright or dull 2. Write four cause-and-effect signal words or phrases you read in the text. 3. Write a cause that explains why the moon looks bright even though it doesn’t have light of its own. 4. Write an effect that fog and clouds have on how the moon appears. 5. Explain what causes the moon to be difficult to see during daytime. Nonfiction Cause and Effect 3 24 Reading Comprehension Fundamentals • EMC 2423 • © Evan-Moor Corp. Name Instructional Activity Page This page has an instructional rule box that teaches the reading comprehension skill and provides a reference for students as they complete the page. Each unit has one or two instructional activity pages. There is a variety of response formats, including multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended items. Text Selection The 1-page fi ction and nonfi ction text selections are specifi cally written to support each individual reading skill or genre. Nonfi ction texts include science, social studies, and other real-world topics. Unit Review The review page provides an opportunity to assess students’ mastery of each individual reading skill and gauge their understanding of the genre or literary element. Mark the sentence that tells a cause and an effect. 1.  Leaving food on the floor can cause ants to swarm on it.  Before we put the food away, we wrap it in foil.  Many houses have ants in the kitchen.  Ants eat many different kinds of food. Write four cause-and-effect signal words or phrases that you know. 2. Read the sentence. Underline the cause. Circle the effect 3. Using too much laundry soap leads to . faded clothing. 4. Using a lawn mower helps you cut grass quickly. 5. When we turn on the microwave, the food inside it becomes warm. Answer the item. 6. Tell how you can use signal words to find a cause or an effect when you’re reading a text. Read the sentence. Then write the cause and the effect it tells about. 7. Some bakers use sugar and salt to make their cakes taste sweet and salty. Nonfiction Cause and Effect Review © Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 2423 • Reading Comprehension Fundamentals 25 Name Text-Based Activity Page The text-based activity page contains an instructional rule box and text-dependent items that target the reading comprehension skill. The items follow various response formats, including multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended items. lesson identifi er indicates the skill and page type 4 Reading Comprehension Fundamentals • EMC 2423 • © Evan-Moor Corp. http://readtoshare.vn/