Zaner-Bloser PreK-8 Catalog 2008-2009 - (Page 29) Research available for download at www.zaner-bloser.com/research Correlations to your state standards available at www.zaner-bloser.com/correlations 3–8 Supplemental Reading Supplemental Reading Grades Readers’ Theater promotes fluency. A Vocabulary activity and a Fluency activity follow each selection. Vocabulary activities build on word concepts from the reading selection. Fluency activities engage students in oral readings of text. Modeled readings of each Fluency selection are provided on the Developing Fluency CD (see page 27). A graphic organizer for each unit helps students understand text structure. Scaffolded and blank graphic organizers are available in the Transparency & Blackline Master Book (see page 27). rfrD.tblm.p7-61_p6 4/30/04 11:21 AM Page 7 rfrD.tg.prepost.p109-128 Assessment informs instruction through multiple-choice and essay questions at key points: • Program Pretest and Posttest • Comprehension Test for every selection • Strategy Transfer Chart 5/27/04 6:08 PM Page 124 Level D Unit 1 Practice Deep-Sea Monster Spider Map Scaffolded Spider Map for rfrD.tg.prepost.p109-128 Posttest 5/27/04 6:08 PM Page 114 Name Date Multiple Choice Questions for “Special Olympics” Pretest Name Date Fill in the circle next to the item that best completes each statement or answers each question. 5. Special Olympics encourages people with 1. Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s sister Multiple Choice Questions for “Your Wild Backyard” participate in mental retardation to Rosemary is sports by A a celebrity. Fill in politician.next to the item that best completes givingstatement or answers each question. A each all the participants money. B a the circle B giving all the participants medals. C a women’s rights activist. 5. To attract rabbits to your yard, you 1. A backyard habitat provides C providing an opportunity to compete D mentally retarded. would probably A food. in a variety of sports in an interA have a flat, B national forum. open yard. 2. Whichshelter. following statements best of the B hang an opportunity to meet C water. D providing bird feeders from tree branches. summarizes the main idea of the athletes from the Olympic Games. C plant lettuce near low shrubs. D all of the above. opening paragraph? D let your cat stay outdoors. A Even people from 5/27/04 backrfrD.tg.prepost.p109-128 different6:08 PM Page 118 6. Looking at both graphs, you can con2. Which of can have common interests grounds the following sentences best clude Whatthe one way ofchickadee compares summarizes the section “Wild 6. that is number a and dreams. A participating athletes in the Summer to a cardinal? B Neighbors”? More than one million people have Games will decrease, and the number joined Special Olympics. A Natural animal habitats are disapA Neither of them likes suet. of athletes who compete in the Winter C Special Olympics is a program. forced pearing, so wild animals are B They both eat sunflower seeds. Games will increase. to person is committed and D Every live with humans. C They both chase in the B athletes who compete cats. Summer courageous.animal habitats are disapB Natural Games will increase,peanut butter and D They both like and the number pearing, so people should keep wild of athletes who compete in the Winter jelly sandwiches. 3. Athletes The author states they develop habitats are becoming very popular. What does this fact animals out of their backyard. 30. gain confidence as that backyard Games will decrease. new skills and abilities. A dirty and person C Wild animals are confident should suggest? C 7. What is represented in the Summer countries the author’s purpose for writing A cannot be around humans. keep a secret. Games will increase, and the number this article? D People want to have himself or ofAcountries represented in the Winter B is self-assured and trustswild animals as He or she likes birds. pets, Games will decrease. herself. so they bring wild animals into B He or she wants to encourage people C hastheir self-esteem. low homes. D athletes and countries that particito create backyard habitats. pate in both the Summer and Winter D thinks he or she is better than others. C He or increase. 3. Sharing space with animals is a comGames willshe wants people to know that cardinals like sunflower seeds. passionate Olympics? 4. What is Special act. Compassionate means D He or the Special Olympics 7. Shriver started she wants people to stop A uncaring and selfish. A a national event where people with because developing land. B sympathetic and helpful to things mental retardation demonstrate their A she understood the needs of people that Olympic-type skills in are in need. events but do 8. Onementalin your yard that could be with thing retardation. not mean or cruel. compete C harmful to wild animals is B she believed that people with mental B a national event where people with D unthinking and wasteful. A pesticides. Essay Question each other retardation can accomplish more mental retardation meetfor “Your Wild Backyard” thanthick shrubs. assume. B most people C an international event where people 4. Who are your wild neighbors? she believed that people with mental with mental retardation answer the followingCquestion. C sunflower seeds. Write short essay to compete in A wildaanimals such as birds, mice, retardation benefit from playing Olympic-type sports D large rocks. raccoons, squirrels, ducks, and frogs D an international neighbors do you already have?sports. features in your neighborhood or yard event where people 31. What wild What B human development such D all of the above. with mental retardation watchas down others attract them? spouts, Olympic-type sports compete in apartment complexes, and garbage cans C people who don’t like wild animals [ 124 ] D Level D • Posttest people who take in compassionate wild animals Copyright © Zaner-Bloser, Inc. The nt Gia u Sq deep waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Deep-Sea Monster Copyright © Zaner-Bloser, Inc. 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