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Table of Contents Introduction. 4 The First Professional Woman Astronomer. 47 Dangerous African Mammals. 48 Standards and Benchmarks.
6 You Wouldn’t Want to Live on Venus. 49 Interesting Places and Events. 7 The Heaviest Flying Bird. 9 Bioluminescence at Sea.
51 Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. 11 The Largest Volcano on Earth. 53 The Taj Mahal. 12 Jupiter—The Planetary Giant.
54 Dinosaur Provincial Park. 55 Deer Cave, Malaysia. 14 The Extinct Quagga. 15 The KT Event.
58 Mysterious Explosion in Russia. 60 The Coastal Redwoods. 19 The Human Brain. 62 The Grand Canyon.
63 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 22 The Laws of Motion. 64 The Lincoln Memorial. 65 The Washington Monument.
66 The Appalachian Mountains. 67 The Statue of Liberty. 26 The Human Eye. 69 The Eiffel Tower.
28 A Plant Larger Than a Whale. 70 The World Cup. 29 From the Past. 30 She Was Dressed to Meet an Iceberg.
31 The Female Paul Revere. 32 He Loved His Mother. 75 Ellis Island—Gateway to America. 33 The Rosetta Stone.
76 The Iditarod Sled Dog Race. 34 The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. 77 The World Series. 35 The Invention of Basketball.
78 The Golden Gate Bridge. 36 Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Author. 79 Daytona International Speedway. 37 Food on the Mayflower.
38 The Library at Alexandria. 39 John Adams Defends British Soldiers. 82 Vermin of the Skies. 41 The Travels of Marco Polo.
83 The Lost Planet. 42 An Unusual Pharaoh. 44 The History of the Book. 87 Threats to Earth.
88 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 2 ©Teacher Created Resources Table of Contents (cont. 90 Author Roald Dahl. 132 Attempted Presidential Assassinations. 133 America’s Forgotten Warriors.
134 The First Great Emperor. 137 The First Ferris Wheel. 95 He Mailed Himself to Freedom. 138 Hatshepsut: The Lost Egyptian Queen.
139 The Ford Model T. 97 The Secret Soldier. 140 The Gibson Homer. 98 The Most Important Woman in America.
141 Homer Plessy Refuses to Give Up His Seat. 99 Buffalo Bill Cody. 142 Old-Time Country Schools. 100 “Eureka! I’ve Found It!”.
143 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. 101 First Emperor of the United States. 144 Making Maple Syrup. 145 Did You Know?.
146 Your Meniscus Is Leaking. 105 One-Eyed Charley. 147 The Compass in Your Nose. 106 The Librarian Who Measured Earth.
107 Sir Walter Raleigh. 108 The One-Armed Explorer. 150 The Invention of Silly Putty®. 109 Isaac Newton: Genius at Work.
151 Your Hair Is Dead. 110 Alexander the Great. 152 How Big Is a Googol?. 111 Sir Francis Drake.
153 Sharks Are Survivors. 158 Keeping Toads and Frogs. 159 Save That Pencil. 160 The Safety Pin.
161 Count to One Billion. 122 Leonardo Da Vinci. 164 The Latin in Your English. 166 Cricket-Jumping Contests.
125 The Liberty Bell. 167 “Big Mama” Oviraptor. 127 Self-Monitoring Reading Strategies. 175 Be a Better Speller.
176 ©Teacher Created Resources 3 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Introduction The primary goal of any reading task is comprehension. Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading uses high-interest, grade-level appropriate nonfiction passages followed by assessment practice to help develop confident readers who can demonstrate their skills on standardized tests. Each passage is a high-interest nonfiction text that fits one of the five topic areas: Interesting Places and Events, Scientifically Speaking, From the Past, Did You Know?, and Fascinating People. Each of these five topic areas has 30 passages, for a total of 150 passages.
Each passage, as well as its corresponding multiple-choice assessment questions, is provided on one page. Comprehension Questions The questions in Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading assess all levels of comprehension, from basic recall to critical thinking. The questions are based on fundamental reading skills found in scope-and- sequence charts across the nation: • recall information • sequence in chronological order • use prior knowledge • identify synonyms and antonyms • visualize • know grade-level vocabulary • recognize the main idea • use context clues to understand new words • identify supporting details • make inferences • understand cause and effect • draw conclusions Readability The texts have a 6.0 grade level based on the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Page # Flesch-Kincaid Leveling Chart Page # Flesch-Kincaid Page # Flesch-Kincaid Formula. This formula, built into Microsoft Word®, determines readability by Grade Level Grade Level Grade Level Interesting Places and Events Scientifically Speaking (cont.) Did You Know? (cont.6 calculating the number of words, syllables, and sentences.7* From the Past 125 6.2 tend to skew the grade level, making it appear higher than it actually is.5 to the Leveling Chart on page 175 for the approximate grade level of each 25 8.7 In some cases, there are words necessary to a passage that increase its grade 41 6.
In those cases, the passage’s grade level is followed by an asterisk in 47 7.0 Did You Know? 157 6. This means that in determining the grade level, the difficult words 53 7.4* were factored in, resulting in the increased level shown before the asterisk.9 ©Teacher Created Resources 1 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Upon the removal of these words, the passage received a grade level within the appropriate range. For example, in the passage, “The Liberty Bell,” the grade level is 7. This is because the word Pennsylvania is repeated several times.
Once the word is removed, the grade level is within range. Including Standards and Benchmarks The passages and comprehension questions throughout this book correlate with McREL (Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning) Standards. Known as a “Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks,” this resource is well researched. It includes standards and benchmarks that represent a consolidation of national and state standards in several content areas for grades K–12.
(See page 6 for the specific McREL Standards and Benchmarks that correspond with this book.) These standards can be aligned to the Common Core Standards. To do so, please visit www. #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 4 ©Teacher Created Resources Introduction (cont.) Practice First to Build Familiarity Initial group practice is essential. Read aloud the first passage in each of the five topic areas and do its related questions with the whole class.
Depending upon the needs of your class, you may choose to do the first three passages in each topic area as a whole class. Some teachers like to use five days in a row to model the reading and question-answering process at the start of the year. Model pre-reading the questions, reading the text, highlighting information that refers to the comprehension questions, and eliminating answers that are obviously incorrect. You may also want to model referring back to the text to ensure the answers selected are the best ones.
Student Practice Ideas With Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading you can choose to do whole-class or independent practice. For example, you can use the passages and questions for the following: Whichever method you choose for using the book, it’s a good idea to practice as a class how to read a passage and respond to the comprehension questions. In this way, you can demonstrate your own thought processes by “thinking aloud” to figure out an answer. Essentially, this means that you tell your students your thoughts as they come to you.
Self-Monitoring Reading Strategies Use the reading strategies on page 174 with your students so they can monitor their own reading comprehension. Copy and distribute this page to your students, or turn it into a class poster. Have your students use these steps for this text, as well as future texts. Record Keeping In the sun image at the bottom, right-hand corner of each warm-up page, there is a place for you (or for students) to write the number of questions answered correctly.
This will give consistency to scored pages. Use the Tracking Sheet on page 176 to record which warm-up exercises you have given to your students. Or distribute copies of the sheet for students to keep their own records. How to Make the Most of This Book / Read each lesson ahead of time before you use it with the class so that you are familiar with it.
This will make it easier to answer students’ questions. / Set aside ten to twelve minutes at a specific time daily to incorporate Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading into your routine. / Make sure the time you spend working on the materials is positive and constructive. This should be a time of practicing for success and recognizing it as it is achieved.
The passages and comprehension questions in Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading are time-efficient, allowing your students to practice these skills often. The more your students practice reading and responding to content-area comprehension questions, the more confident and competent they will become. ©Teacher Created Resources 5 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Standards and Benchmarks Each passage in Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading meets at least one of the following standards and benchmarks, which are used with permission from McREL. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.
4601 DTC Boulevard, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80237. Web site: www.org/standards-benchmarks. To align McREL Standards to the Common Core Standards, go to www.
