Fifth Grade Reading Comprehension Success by Sylvan Learning - Excerpt

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Chcig your wrs i pr of th lering.Each section o the workbook begins with an easy-to-use Check It! strip.

1. Beore beginning the activities, cut out the Check It! strip.

2. As you complete the activities on each page, check your answers.

3. I you fnd an error, you can correct it yoursel.



Pg 4–5

Pg 1

Pg 2–3

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S Peak!Say you’re going to read this book:

Electricity: Past, Present, and Future

First, READ the table o contents.

Chapter One: Life before electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter Two: Many inventors caught the spark . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter Three: Power plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter Four: Electricity in the home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter Five: Switching to solar power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Now, FILL IN the blanks using inormation rom the table o contents.

1. How many chapters does this book have?

2. Which chapter might tell you if Ben Franklin invented

electricity?

3. Which page does chapter four start on?

4. What might be the future of electricity?

5. Which two chapters might talk about home lighting?

See how much you can learn rom the table o contents?

1. 5

2. chapter 2

3. 27

4. solar power

5. chapters 1, 4, and

possibly 5

1. 45

2. knock-knock jokes, animal

jokes, holiday jokes, and school

jokes, jokes through history

3. pages 10–14

4. pun

5. chapter 7

6. page 45

7. Suggestion:You might learn to

pause before giving the punch

line of a joke.

1. chapter 4

2. 8 pages

3. chapter 2

4. chapter 3

5. pages 56–59

6. chapter 5

7. Suggestion:Saving the habitat

of big cats, or helping stray cats

8. Suggestion:A list of books and

Web sites about cats

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Beore you dive into a book, take a look at the ABLE OF CONENS.

What’s that? It ’s a list o the chapters in a book. It may give you a hintabout what’s inside





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Suggestions:

1. When was NASCAR started?

2. How is a stock car different

from an Indy 500 car?

3. What happens during a

stock car race?

Chapter One: Knock-knock jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter Two: Animal jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chapter Three: Jokes for the holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter Four: School jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Chapter Five: Puns and other plays on words . . . . . . . . . . 25

Chapter Six: Silly riddles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter Seven: Jokes through history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Chapter Eight: Tips on telling a good joke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Joke Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Pg 6–7

1. plants, mammals, fish, coral reefs

2. at the bottom of the sea (or

chapter 9)

3. chapter 1

4. chapters 10, 11, 13, 14, 16

Suggestions:

5. What creatures can live at the

bottom of the sea?

6. How deep into the ocean can

humans travel?

7. What is the effect of global

warming on the Arctic Ocean?

8. How many oceans are there in theworld?

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1Now, FILL IN the blanks using inormation rom the table o contents.

1. At least how many pages does this book have?

2. What kinds of jokes does it cover?

3. Which pages might have a joke about a duck?

4. What’s another word for “a play on words”?

5. Which chapter might talk about the oldest joke ever told?

6. Which page has a list of all the jokes in the book?

7. What’s one thing you might learn in chapter eight?

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Chapter One: Cats of every shape and size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter Two: What’s under the fur? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter Three: Cats all over the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter Four: On the hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter Five: Keeping it clean! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter Six: Cats and humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter Seven: Longhair cat breeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter Eight: Shorthair cat breeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter Nine: Home cat care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter Ten: Cats need our help! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Research sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65



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1. Which chapter might describe how cats catch mice?

2. How long is chapter seven?

3. Which chapter might tell you how many bones a tiger has?

4. Which chapter might tell you where leopards live?

5. Which pages might tell you about how to treat fleas on your cat?

6. Which chapter might cover cats’ grooming habits?

7. What do you think chapter ten is about?

8. What do you think you’ll find on page 65?



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One: The oceans of the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Two: Ocean life: Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Three: Ocean life: Mammals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Four: Ocean life: Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Five: Coral reefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Six: Ocean geology: Vents, mountains, and mud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Seven: Ocean zones: The top 200 meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Eight: Ocean zones: Midwater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Nine: Ocean zones: The midnight zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Ten: Drilling for oil and gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Eleven: Deep-sea exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Twelve: Famous shipwrecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Thirteen: Trash and pollution in the water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Fourteen: Are we fishing too much? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Fifteen: Waves, tides, and weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Sixteen: Global warming and sea levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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1. What kinds of ocean life does this book cover?

2. Where is “the midnight zone” of the ocean?

3. Which chapter might list the names of the Earth’s oceans?

4. Which chapters might deal with the effect of humans on the oceans?

Don’t orget, the table o contents is just a clue to all the inormation in the book. WRIE our more

questions that this book might answer that the table o contents can’t.

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3Chc I!Cut out the Check It! section on page 1, and see i you got the answers right.

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Chapter One: History: 1948 to today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter Two: Building a stock car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter Three: Race day! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter Four: Famous drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter Five: Working in the pit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

WRIE three questions that this book might answer that the table o contents can’t.

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