Comprehension. Read and Succeed: Whiteboard- Compatible Resource CD CORRELATED TO STATE STANDARDS RESEARCH BASED TEST PREPARATION SEP 50728

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1 Level Interactive 5 Whiteboard- Compatible Resource CD SEP Read and Succeed: Comprehension CORRELATED TO STATE STANDARDS RESEARCH BASED TEST PREPARATION Debra J. Housel

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3 Table of Contents Introduction Research Support for the Read and Succeed: Comprehension Series Standards Correlations McREL Correlations Chart Activities and Passages Preview (The Trip of a Lifetime) Preview (Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt) Predict (Diego Rivera, An Eccentric Artist) Predict (The Mysterious Maiden) Prior Knowledge (May the Force Be With You!) Prior Knowledge (Natural Forces: Electricity and Magnetism) Set a Purpose (Unseen Volcanoes Build New Land) Set a Purpose (Niagara Falls) Ask Questions (School Website) Ask Questions (Our Energetic World) Make Connections (Rides to Remember) Make Connections (The First Day at a New School) Context Clues (The Boy Who Hated Tests).. 32 Context Clues (George Washington Carver) Visualize (Running Lobster Traps) Visualize (Sofia s Quinceañera Gown) Story Elements (Maritza s Dilemma) Story Elements (Sleepover at the Art Museum) Plot (The Auto Show) Plot (An Important Race) Characters (Captain Butterbeard Addresses His Crew).48 Characters (King Midas s Golden Touch) Title and Headings (Oysterville Crate Race) Title and Headings (An Amazing Machine) Typeface and Captions (Zoos: Old and New) Typeface and Captions (Light) Graphics (For the Record) Graphics (Shaking and Quaking) Topic Sentences (Earth s Cycling Seasons).. 64 Topic Sentences (Firefighters) Main Idea (Milo the Victorious) Main Idea (Light Sticks) Details (A Giant Red Ant) Details (Johnson Space Center) Main Idea and Details (Confucius, the Great Chinese Philosopher).76 Chronological Order (The Ancient Olympics) Chronological Order (Thomas Jefferson) Logical Order (Help Nature to Recycle) Logical Order (Hydroponics) Fact and Opinion (Change Comes to School Lunches) Fact and Opinion (Pablo Picasso) Proposition and Support (School Garbage) Proposition and Support (Fighting for Survival) Author s Purpose (I m Sorry) Author s Purpose (A Visit to Saturn) Compare and Contrast (A Difficult Choice) Compare and Contrast (African Ecosystems) Classify (Taste) Classify (At the Library) Cause and Effect (Belling the Cat) Cause and Effect (Trouble in the Coral Reefs) Draw Conclusions (At the Pond) Draw Conclusions (Blizzard!) Infer (Your Skeleton and Muscles) Infer (Danger from the Sky) Summarize (Ballet) Summarize (Ancient Greece) Paraphrase ( Green Cell Phones) Paraphrase (Roberto Clemente) Table of Contents (The Twentieth Century) Table of Contents (Teamwork) Index (History of Schools) Index (Earth s Biomes) Glossary (Wetlands) Glossary (History of Money) Answer Key Contents of the Teacher Resource CD Shell Education #50728 Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 5 3

4 Skill Focus Preview Looking at the title, pictures, and headings before you read helps you to get ready to understand the text. 1. Preview the text. What do you already know about the Egyptian pyramids? 2. Read the text. Why do you think the students measured the sides of the Great Pyramid at Giza? 3. Write two facts that you learned about the pyramids from the text. Critical Thinking How did previewing the text help you to understand it when you read it? 8 #50728 Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 5 Shell Education

5 The Trip of a Lifetime The students of the American International School were excited. They had worked hard raising money for this trip. They had washed cars, sold magazine subscriptions, and collected cans and bottles. Now they were flying to Cairo to tour the pyramids of Egypt! Before the trip, the students had studied the pyramids in school. They learned about the pharaohs, the ancient kings of Egypt who ruled Egypt nearly 5,000 years ago. The Egyptians considered the pharaohs to be living gods. The pyramids were constructed as tombs for the pharaohs. Often it took a pharaoh s whole lifetime for his pyramid to be erected. On the first day of the trip, the students went to the Great Pyramid in Giza. It was built for the Pharaoh Khufu around 2550 b.c. The Great Pyramid is the tallest in the world. Originally, it was 480 feet (146.3 m) tall. Due to erosion, it is now approximately 450 feet (137.2 m) tall. The students were amazed by the precision that was used to build the pyramid with the primitive technology available at that time. They measured all four sides of the Great Pyramid. They found each side to be 750 feet (228.6 m) long. No one knows how the ancient Egyptians built these massive structures. Each stone in the pyramid weighs as much as four tons. Historians believe the Egyptians hadn t yet discovered the wheel. They theorize that the ancient Egyptians slid the stones on giant sleds over great distances and pulled the stones up ramps. It was such a slow process that thousands of slaves worked for decades on each pyramid. When the students returned to school, they prepared presentations. Then they held an assembly and invited the community. Everyone was impressed by how much the students had learned. Shell Education #50728 Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 5 9

6 Skill Focus Preview Looking at the title, pictures, and headings before you read helps you to get ready to understand the text. 1. Preview the text. Name two people who will be mentioned in the text. 2. Scan the text for other names. Write them below. 3. Read the text. Then number the sentences in the correct order from first to last (1 4). Mark Antony kills himself. Cleopatra becomes the queen of Egypt. Octavian defeats the Egyptians. Julius Caesar falls in love with Cleopatra. Critical Thinking How did previewing the text help you to understand it when you read it? 10 #50728 Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 5 Shell Education

7 Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history. She lived from 69 to 30 b.c. She was beautiful and ambitious. At the age of 17, she became the queen of Egypt. At the time Cleopatra ruled Egypt, Julius Caesar was the emperor of Rome. In 48 b.c., he visited Egypt. He fell in love with Cleopatra. When Caesar returned to Rome, Cleopatra traveled with him. But then Caesar was murdered. Cleopatra returned to Egypt alone. To increase her power, she married a Roman general named Mark Antony. Antony was expected to become the new emperor of Rome. Soon, he started giving away Roman land to his wife. This angered a Roman general named Octavian. He declared war on Antony and Cleopatra. In a major sea battle, Octavian defeated the Egyptians. Antony killed himself. Cleopatra realized that she had lost her power. So, she took her own life by deliberately letting a poisonous snake bite her. A carving of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, on the side of an ancient Egyptian ruin Shell Education #50728 Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 5 11