• Practice for every day of the school year • Help students prepare for standardized testing

 2. Immediately before the archerfish spits 
water from its mouth, it 
.
 
swims near a low branch
 
presses its tongue against
the roof of its mouth
 
eats a bug
 
snaps its gills shut
 3. Why does the archerfish press its tongue 
against the roof of its mouth?
 
to make room for the bug
 
to close its gills faster
 
to make a narrow tube
 
to make a jet of water spray out
 4. Why does an archerfish need to be still?
 
to stick its mouth out of the water
 
to eat an insect
 
to leap out of the water for food
 
to wait for a bug to land
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Daily Reading Comprehension • EMC 3453 • © Evan-Moor Corp.
Comprehension Strategies and Skills 
In 
Daily Reading Comprehension
, students learn and practice the following commonly tested comprehension 
strategies and skills, all proven to increase students’ abilities to read and understand a wide range of text 
types. You may also wish to post or distribute copies of page 8, which provides a student-friendly list of skills 
and helpful questions that students can ask themselves as they read.
 Strategies
Make Connections
Students make connections to the text to aid their 
comprehension. Connections can be made to personal 
experiences or to things the students have seen or read.
Visualization
Students make mental images of what they are 
reading. They learn to look for vivid language, 
including concrete nouns, active verbs, and strong 
adjectives.
Organization
Students learn to find the organizational pattern of
a text. This allows them to anticipate what they are 
reading and helps them focus on the author’s central 
message or important ideas.