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Table of Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standards and Benchmarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Interesting Places and Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Wait Until 2061. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Around the World in Seventy-Two Days . . . . 10 Antarctica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Taj Mahal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Dinosaur Provincial Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Deer Cave, Malaysia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Krakatoa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mysterious Explosion in Russia. . . . . . . . . . . 17 July 4, 1826. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Coastal Redwoods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ice Ages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Grand Canyon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. . . . . . . . . . 22 The Lincoln Memorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The Washington Monument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Appalachian Mountains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Statue of Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Angkor Wat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 The Eiffel Tower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The World Cup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Mount Rushmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Himalayas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Ellis Island—Gateway to America. . . . . . . . . 33 The Iditarod Sled Dog Race. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The World Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Golden Gate Bridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Daytona International Speedway . . . . . . . . . . 37 Hoover Dam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 From the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Scientifically Speaking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Vermin of the Skies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Lost Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Decibel Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Natural Chimneys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Threats to Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading The First Professional Woman Astronomer . . 47 Dangerous African Mammals. . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 You Wouldn’t Want to Live on Venus. . . . . . . 49 The Heaviest Flying Bird. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Bioluminescence at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Lightning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Largest Volcano on Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Jupiter—The Planetary Giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Tide Pools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The Extinct Quagga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The KT Event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Animal Vision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Mercury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Animal Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The Human Brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Snow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Tornadoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 The Laws of Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Clouds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 The Human Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Goblin Sharks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 A Plant Larger Than a Whale. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 2 She Was Dressed to Meet an Iceberg . . . . . . . 73 The Female Paul Revere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 He Loved His Mother. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The Rosetta Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. . . . . . . . . . 77 The Invention of Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Author. . . . . . . 79 Food on the Mayflower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 The Library at Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 John Adams Defends British Soldiers. . . . . . . 82 The Travels of Marco Polo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 An Unusual Pharaoh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 A Number Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 The History of the Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Female Pirates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Kites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 ©Teacher Created Resources Table of Contents Presidential Pets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The Iceman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Attempted Presidential Assassinations. . . . . . 91 America’s Forgotten Warriors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The First Great Emperor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Lincoln’s Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 The First Ferris Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Hatshepsut: The Lost Egyptian Queen. . . . . . 96 The Ford Model T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Gibson Homer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Homer Plessy Refuses to Give Up His Seat. . 99 Old-Time Country Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire . . . . . . 101 Making Maple Syrup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Your Meniscus Is Leaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 The Compass in Your Nose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Snail Training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Earthworm Pets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The Invention of Silly Putty® . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Your Hair Is Dead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 How Big Is a Googol?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Sharks Are Survivors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 LEGO® Bricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 QWERTY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Grizzly Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Slinkity Slinkys®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Keeping Toads and Frogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Save That Pencil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 The Safety Pin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Count to One Billion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Tsunamis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Skunks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Latin in Your English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Heartbeats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Cricket-Jumping Contests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 The Liberty Bell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 “Big Mama” Oviraptor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Birthday Odds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Be a Better Speller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Frozen Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 ©Teacher Created Resources Checkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Author Roald Dahl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Making Crayons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 American Idioms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Fascinating People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Did You Know?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 (cont.) Beverly Cleary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 He Mailed Himself to Freedom . . . . . . . . . . 138 Hypatia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 The Secret Soldier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 The Most Important Woman in America . . . 141 Buffalo Bill Cody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 “Eureka! I’ve Found It!”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 First Emperor of the United States. . . . . . . . 144 Steven Spielberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Galileo Galilei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 One-Eyed Charley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 The Librarian Who Measured Earth. . . . . . . 148 Sir Walter Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 The One-Armed Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Isaac Newton: Genius at Work. . . . . . . . . . . 151 Alexander the Great . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Sir Francis Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Claude Monet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Steve Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Oprah Winfrey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Dizzy Dean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Michael Jordan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Eliza Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Nelson Mandela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Louis Braille. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Julius Caesar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Bill Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Leonardo Da Vinci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Mae Jemison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Willie Mays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Self-Monitoring Reading Strategies . . . . . . . . . 174 Leveling Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Tracking Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 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-andsequence 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 6.0–7.0 grade level based on the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula. This formula, built into Microsoft Word®, determines readability by calculating the number of words, syllables, and sentences. Multisyllabic words tend to skew the grade level, making it appear higher than it actually is. Refer to the Leveling Chart on page 175 for the approximate grade level of each passage. Leveling Chart Page # Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Interesting Places and Events 9 7.0 10 7.0 11 7.0 12 6.9 13 6.6 14 6.1 15 7.5* 16 6.7 17 6.3 18 7.7* 19 6.8 20 6.6 21 6.4 22 6.4 23 6.9 24 6.6 25 8.1* 26 6.8 27 6.5 28 7.0 29 6.5 30 8.2* 31 7.2* 32 6.9 33 6.8 34 6.2 35 7.0 36 7.0 37 7.0 38 6.9 Scientifically Speaking 41 6.7 42 6.9 43 6.9 44 6.7 45 6.7 46 6.7 47 7.0 48 6.5 49 6.5 50 6.0 51 6.8 52 6.3 53 7.0 54 6.6 55 6.0 56 6.6 57 6.7 58 6.8 59 6.9 60 6.7 61 6.8 Page # Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Scientifically Speaking 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 From the Past 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 Did You Know? 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 (cont.) 6.5 6.9 6.8 6.0 6.7 6.3 6.8 6.7 7.0 6.8 6.9 6.6 6.9 6.8 6.6 6.8 6.1 6.9 6.8 6.3 6.8 6.7 6.7 6.5 6.5 6.6 6.4 7.0 6.9 6.9 6.8 6.6 6.8 6.5 6.1 7.0 6.0 6.5 6.0 Page # Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Did You Know? (cont.) 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 Fascinating People 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 6.8 6.0 6.7 6.6 6.9 6.9 6.7 7.5* 6.2 6.2 7.3* 8.2* 7.0 6.0 6.6 6.5 6.7 6.8 6.8 6.6 6.5 6.4 6.6 6.9 7.0 6.9 6.7 6.9 6.7 6.7 7.0 6.3 6.9 6.6 6.6 6.8 6.7 6.5 6.8 6.8 6.1 6.7 6.9 6.0 6.5 6.6 6.6 7.4* 6.3 In some cases, there are words necessary to a passage that increase its grade level. In those cases, the passage’s grade level is followed by an asterisk in the chart. This means that in determining the grade level, the difficult words were factored in, resulting in the increased level shown before the asterisk. 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 7.3. This is because the word Pennsylvania is repeated several times. Once the word is removed, the grade level is within range. ©Teacher Created Resources 1 7.1* 6.6 6.1 6.0 6.3 6.7 6.9 6.4 6.4 6.4 6.9 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 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.mcrel.org. #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: group wholectice pra centers s warm-up sons for les homework individual rk tudent wo s ss end-of-cla tivities ac 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. Copyright 2010 McREL. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning. 4601 DTC Boulevard, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80237. Telephone: 303-337-0990. Web site: www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks. To align McREL Standards to the Common Core Standards, go to www.mcrel.org. 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Pluto’s or Neptune’s gravity causes the comet to start falling toward the sun. A trail of solar particles creates a visible tail of glowing gases. The tail can stretch for thirty-five million miles! The comet goes around the sun. Then it slingshots away and races once more toward the outer solar system. Most comets never return to the solar system. However, a few are short-period comets. They return at regular intervals. Halley’s Comet appears every seventy-six years. Comet Encke goes by every 3.3 years. A comet begins as a small, icy mass far beyond Pluto in a region called the Oort Cloud. There, billions of chunks of ice water, Check Your Understanding 1. From the context of the passage, what is the meaning of a short-period comet? a. It returns at regular intervals. b. It is never seen but once. c. It is made of solar particles. d. It lasts less than a year. 2. Where do comets form? a. near the sun b. near Jupiter c. in the Oort Cloud region d. near Earth 3. Which of the following is a topic sentence? a. Then it slingshots away and races once more toward the outer solar system. b. A comet begins as a small, icy mass far beyond Pluto in a region called the Oort Cloud. c. The most ancient record of Halley’s Comet comes from 1057 BCE. d. Comet Encke goes by every 3.3 years. 4. Which event occurred after Halley’s death and was seen as proof that the comet returned every seventy-six years? a. The appearance in 1984. b. The appearance in 2061. c. The appearance in 1057 BCE. d. The return of the comet in 1758. /4 ©Teacher Created Resources 9 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 2 Name_ ______________________________________________ Around the World in Seventy-Two Days When Jules Verne published his popular book, Around the World in Eighty Days, travel was still slow. To travel around the world in eighty days seemed impossible in the real world. In 1889, America’s first female reporter, Nellie Bly, convinced her editor that she could beat that time and any man who tried to compete with her. On November 14, 1889, Nellie got on board the steamship Augusta Victoria, leaving Hoboken, New Jersey. The race against the clock began at 9:40 a.m. She traveled to France where she met Jules Verne. They mapped out Nellie’s itinerary to match the route in Jules Verne’s book. Nellie went on to Italy. She then sailed through the newly dug Suez Canal. She sailed from Yemen to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to Singapore. There, she bought a monkey who traveled the rest of the route with her. She learned that a young female reporter had been sent by a magazine and was ahead of her. This did not stop Nellie. She continued on to Hong Kong and Japan before crossing the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco. Nellie then traveled across the southern part of the United States by train to New Jersey. She set foot on the Jersey City train station seventy-two days, six hours, and eleven minutes after starting her journey. Her amazing race made her a national heroine. Check Your Understanding 1. From the context of the passage, what is the meaning of itinerary? a. a list of books b. a list of destinations on a trip c. a list of steamships d. a list of people to meet 2. What do you think Nellie did on the trip so that people knew where she was and how she was doing? a. She sent dispatches and articles to her newspaper to be published. b. She sent letters to the president of the United States. c. She gave interviews to television reporters. d. She made telephone calls to her parents. 3. What did Nellie and Jules Verne discuss? a. how he wrote the book b. the route around the world c. people to meet on the way d. how to write a novel 4. What can you infer from the passage about the success of Nellie’s competitor? a. She didn’t finish the race. b. She quit and went home. #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading c. She didn’t win the race. d. She won the race. 10 /4 ©Teacher Created Resources Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 3 Name_ ______________________________________________ Antarctica Antarctica is an ice-covered continent. It lies near the South Pole. It is larger than Australia and just a bit smaller than South America. Antarctica covers 5.4 million square miles. That is about 9.7 percent of Earth’s land area. It is not a nation, and there are no citizens. No one lives there permanently. However, several nations have scientific research posts there. Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth. Average temperatures rarely climb over -31°F. That is still 63°F below freezing! The lowest temperature recorded on Earth was in Antarctica. It was a bone-chilling -128°F. It is also one of the driest places on the planet. There is a great deal of wind but hardly any rain or snow. About 98 percent of the continent is covered with ice. Its ice cap holds about 70 percent of all of the fresh water on Earth. At its thickest point, the ice covering Antarctica is about three miles in depth. The ice sheet is so thick and heavy that it keeps most of the land underwater! Until about eighty million years ago, Antarctica was connected to Australia. We know this because of the fossil record. Fossils of plants, reptiles, and other creatures prove that the continent was actually a tropical paradise at that time. Check Your Understanding 1. Which continent is slightly larger than Antarctica? a. Australia b. Asia c. South America d. Greenland 2. Why do you think there are no native settlements or permanent cities on Antarctica? a. The climate is too cold. b. Food would be hard to find. c. There are no edible plants. d. all of the above 3. How do you know that Antarctica was not always as cold as it is today? a. Australia is not covered with ice. b. Fossil plants and animals found in Antarctica are from warmer climates. c. People are living on Antarctica today. d. Antarctica looks like it will warm up. 4. How many degrees below freezing was the lowest recorded temperature on Antarctica? a. -128°F b. -160°F c. -96°F d. -200°F /4 ©Teacher Created Resources 11 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 4 Name_ ______________________________________________ The Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal is on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Historians, tourists, and students of architecture and design admire it for two reasons. One is for its beauty. The other is the love story that led to its creation. The Taj Mahal stands on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, India. Its construction began in 1631 and was finished in 1653. It is an Islamic tomb built of white marble, which was imported from all over India and neighboring lands. Its creation required the use of more than 1,000 elephants to transport the marble. More than 22,000 builders labored for twenty-one years to erect it. They used twenty-eight different kinds of precious and semi-precious stones to decorate the temple. This “Crown Palace” is a monument to love. Shah Jahan was the fifth Mughal emperor of India. When he was a fourteen-year-old prince, he fell in love with a fifteen-year-old Persian princess. Five years later, she became his third wife. This was in 1612. He called her “Mumtaz Mahal,” which means “Jewel of the Palace.” They had a happy marriage. However, she died giving birth to their fourteenth child. Heartbroken, her husband ordered the building of the Taj Mahal. This tomb is a tribute to her. It still stands as an enduring symbol of their love. Check Your Understanding 1. How old was the princess when they were married? a. thirty-one years old b. twenty years old 2. Which culture does the Taj Mahal represent? a. American b. Islamic c. twenty-five years old d. fourteen years old c. Jewish d. Chinese 3. Which of the following ideas can you infer from the passage? a. Mahal means “palace.” b. White marble was valued highly in Indian buildings. c. The Taj Mahal is both a tomb and a temple. d. all of the above 4. What does architecture refer to? a. the design of buildings b. Indian religions c. the damming of rivers d. all of the above /4 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 12 ©Teacher Created Resources Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 5 Name_ ______________________________________________ Dinosaur Provincial Park Would you like to visit a park entirely dedicated to dinosaurs? Then you should go to Dinosaur Provincial Park. For dinosaur enthusiasts, it is the park to visit. It is in Alberta, Canada. In 1884, a scientist went searching for coal and oil deposits. This was in the mostly unexplored lands of western Canada. He found a huge dinosaur skull along the Red Deer River. Scientists realized it was a new dinosaur. They called it the Albertosaurus. Why? It was found near the city of Alberta. Explorers and scientists soon discovered that the area was a treasure-trove of dinosaur remains. A mixture of mud, sand, and minerals had perfectly preserved them. More than 150 complete dinosaur skeletons have been found there. Thousands of individual bones have been uncovered, too. In 1955, the Canadian government created Dinosaur Provincial Park. This was done to display many of the skeletons and protect the remaining bones. In some parts of the park, scientists still search for bones. Visitors are not allowed to search for bones and remove them. The park has displays of many dinosaurs, including the Styracosaurus. Its name means “spiked lizard.” It was an eighteen-foot-long, six-foot-high horned species. It weighed 600 pounds. The Albertosaurus was thirty feet long and weighed 4,000 pounds. It walked on two legs. Check Your Understanding 1. From the context of the passage, what is the best meaning of treasure-trove? a. hidden treasure b. gold deposits c. worthless junk d. a dinosaur skull 2. From your prior knowledge of dinosaurs and the context of the passage, which well-known dinosaur appears to be a close relative of the Albertosaurus? a. Brontosaurus c. Iguanodon b. Tyrannosaurus rex d. Triceratops 3. Which word refers to a mixture of mud, sand, and minerals? a. dinosaur b. sediment 4. Where is Dinosaur Provincial Park located? a. Mexico b. the United States c. riverbed d. specimen c. Canada d. California /4 ©Teacher Created Resources 13 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 6 Name_ ______________________________________________ Deer Cave, Malaysia You probably wouldn’t want to visit Deer Cave in Malaysia. The cave is massive—so massive that it can hold more people than the largest football stadium on Earth. However, millions of bats live inside. Each night as dusk falls, hundreds of thousands of bats from twelve different species fly out. They use echolocation to find and devour insects in the Malaysian rain forest. Each bat eats about one-third of an ounce of insects. Altogether, the bats eat about sixteen tons of insects every night! After the bugs are digested, the bats produce about five tons of fresh guano. That’s the name for bat waste. cockroaches, flies, worms, centipedes, and millipedes. The dung is rich in nutrients. That’s why Deer Cave has the biggest population of cockroaches on Earth. There are so many roaches that the cave floor looks like a moving river of roaches. For this reason alone, Deer Cave is not likely to become a tourist attraction any time soon. However, the roaches and other small creatures provide food for millions of spiders, scorpions, and snakes. The guano falls to the cave floor. It is the largest pile of bat dung in the world. This dung supplies food to tens of millions of Check Your Understanding 1. From the context of the passage, which of the following means the same as “guano”? a. dung b. manure 2. What do bats eat? a. insects b. flowers c. waste d. all of the above c. guano d. snakes 3. Which of the following is an opinion and not a fact? a. Bats eat one-third of an ounce of insects every night. b. Bats produce guano. c. Bats are interesting creatures. d. Bats hunt at night. 4. What can you infer from the passage? a. Bats have lived in Deer Cave for a long time. b. Bats hatch from eggs. c. People would be comfortable spending time in Deer Cave. d. both a and c #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 14 /4 ©Teacher Created Resources Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 7 Name_ ______________________________________________ Niagara Falls Niagara Falls is one of the world’s most famous waterfalls. It forms part of the border between the United States and Canada. Water in the thirty-five-mile-long Niagara River flows east from Lake Erie. It goes over Niagara Falls. Then it goes into Lake Ontario. Niagara Falls is a popular destination for tourists and honeymooners. Over the years, it has drawn plenty of daredevils, too. An American teacher was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1901, Annie Taylor was sealed into a barrel and dropped into the Niagara River. She was swept Actually, Niagara Falls is two sets of falls. over Horseshoe Falls. When the barrel was Goat Island lies between them. American retrieved near the base of Niagara Falls, she Falls is about 1,060 feet long and 170 feet was alive but battered and bloody. Others high. Horseshoe Falls is about 2,600 feet long who have tried the same stunt have been badly and 176 feet high. Horseshoe Falls is named injured or killed. Often, a daredevil’s vessel for its shape. It carries about nine times more smashes on the rocks at the bottom. Now water than American Falls. The thunder of the anyone who tries such a feat is arrested. falling water can be heard more than twenty miles away. When the sun shines on the ever-present mist rising from the water, a rainbow glitters in the air. Check Your Understanding 1. Which of the following is an opinion and not a fact? a. second paragraph, first sentence b. second paragraph, last sentence c. first paragraph, last sentence d. none of the above 2. What is the author’s attitude toward anyone going over Niagara Falls in a barrel? a. admiration b. humor c. disapproval d. encouragement 3. Which of these titles would best express the main idea of the passage? a. “American Falls” b. “Be Careful!” c. “Two Sets of Falls” d. “Daredevils Are Dangerous” 4. From the context of the passage, which elements are necessary to create rainbows? a. fine droplets of water in the air b. sunlight c. snow d. both a and b /4 ©Teacher Created Resources 15 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 8 Name_ ______________________________________________ Krakatoa One of the most powerful volcanic explosions in human history occurred in 1883. It happened on the island of Krakatoa near Java. This is in Indonesia. On August 27, after half a million years of inactivity, Krakatoa awoke with a roar. Three volcanic mountains on the uninhabited island exploded. The massive blast sent a cloud of ash, dust, steam, and volcanic debris fifty miles high into the atmosphere. miles away. At least 36,000 people were killed altogether. More explosions and violent earthquakes occurred. The explosive force created winds that circled the globe seven times. But the worst was yet to come. The explosion caused giant waves called tsunamis. They roared across the water and blasted the shores of nearby islands. Just one of these waves killed 10,000 people on a neighboring island thirty A tremendous noise occurred when three-quarters of the island collapsed into the sea. (It was an island about the size of New York’s Manhattan Island.) The sound was so loud that people heard it 3,000 miles away. The people in Texas who heard the explosion thought it was gunfire. They were shocked to learn that it came from half a world away. Ships that were far from shore were safe from these waves. But near the coast, the waves picked up boats and threw them onto the land. Waves from the volcanic eruption and earthquake were felt as far away as the English Channel. Tsunamis were recorded in South America, too. Check Your Understanding 1. Which event occurred second in the sequence of events at Krakatoa? a. Three-quarters of the island collapsed into the sea. b. Tsunamis hit neighboring islands. c. Three volcanic mountains exploded on Krakatoa. d. A cloud of debris blasted into the atmosphere. 2. Which of the following is a topic sentence? a. paragraph one, first sentence b. paragraph two, last sentence c. paragraph one, last sentence d. paragraph three, last sentence 3. From the context of the passage, what are tsunamis? a. giant earthquakes b. giant ocean waves c. giant waves of sound d. giant waves of lava 4. Which of these is the best summary of the entire passage? a. An earthquake occurred on Krakatoa, putting many lives and homes at risk. b. A violent volcanic eruption combined with earthquakes destroyed the island of Krakatoa and caused enormous damage. c. Waves of sound could be heard thousands of miles away. d. Tsunamis are giant waves that cause a lot of damage. 4 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading / 16 ©Teacher Created Resources Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 9 Name_ ______________________________________________ Mysterious Explosion in Russia The Tunguska River is in central Siberia, Russia. It was the site of the most mysterious explosion in world history. On June 30, 1908, a violent blast slammed into the area with the force of a hydrogen bomb. Yet this was almost forty years before such a bomb was invented. The explosion leveled thousands of square miles of forest in seconds. It was a mostly unpopulated area. However, eyewitnesses described a fiery, explosive sky, waves of intense heat, and a thunderous noise. The blast knocked cows and people right off their feet more than thirty miles away. The sound was heard more than six hundred miles away. What caused this blast? Even now, scientists aren’t sure. Several suggestions have been made. Some have suggested that a large meteorite or asteroid burst through Earth’s atmosphere and exploded. But there is no crater in the area. Meteorites and asteroids are composed of rock and metal. It seems there would have been an impact crater. Other scientists believe that a small asteroid exploded in the air before hitting the ground. That’s why there is no crater. The event did occur at the same time that Earth was passing through the orbit of Comet Encke. The explosion could have resulted from an atmospheric collision with a large piece of the comet’s tail. That would explain no crater. Still, the mystery remains. Since it happened more than one hundred years ago, will it ever be solved? Check Your Understanding 1. How many years ago did the mysterious explosion occur? a. more than 1,000 years ago b. more than 100 years ago c. during a world war d. in 1970 2. From the context of the passage, what is a crater? a. a gigantic hole in the earth b. a long ditch in the ground c. a new lake d. a kind of planet 3. Which of these did not happen during the Tunguska event? a. Scientists recorded the crash during the event. b. A hydrogen bomb exploded. c. The explosion leveled thousands of square miles of trees. d. both a and b 4. What can you infer from the passage? a. Scientists are deeply divided over the cause of the explosion. b. Scientists don’t want to know the cause of the explosion. c. A hydrogen bomb exploded in the region. d. Alien spacecraft caused the explosion. ©Teacher Created Resources 17 /4 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Interesting Places and Events Warm-Up 10 Name_ ______________________________________________ July 4, 1826 The Declaration of Independence was made public on July 4, 1776. Two very important people helped create that document. Their names are Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Jefferson wrote the first draft. Members of the committee, including John Adams, made changes to it. Then the Continental Congress changed it some more. At last, it was ready. It was read aloud on the steps of Independence Hall. The document lists the reasons why the colonists wanted to break free of Great Britain. He was the governor of Virginia. He was also secretary of state under Washington and vice president under Adams. Then he became the third president of the United States. Adams and Jefferson became political opponents during their presidential years. After retiring from public life, they restored their friendship. Both fell ill in 1826. When the 93-year-old Adams died on July 4, 1826, his last words were: “Thomas Jefferson survives.” He didn’t know that five hours earlier, the 83-year-old Jefferson had passed John Adams went on to serve as a diplomat to away. It seems fitting that two of the great foreign countries. He was also vice president heroes of American freedom died hours under George Washington. Then he became apart on the fiftieth anniversary of the United the second president of the United States. States’ birth. Jefferson also served as a diplomat to France. Check Your Understanding 1. From the context of the passage, what is the meaning of diplomat? a. a political leader b. a representative to a foreign country c. a president d. a businessman 2. Which job did Adams and Jefferson not have in common? a. diplomat to foreign countries b. president of the United States c. vice president of the United States d. governor of Virginia 3. You can infer that during their presidencies, Adams and Jefferson a. were less friendly and opposed each other’s policies. b. fought in duels. c. regretted the Declaration of Independence. d. paid no attention to each other’s opinions. 4. Which event occurred third? a. Adams made changes to the Declaration of Independence. b. Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. c. The Continental Congress made changes to the Declaration of Independence. d. The Declaration of Independence was publicly proclaimed. #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading 18 /4 ©Teacher Created Resources