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

SKILL PRACTICE
Read the question. Fill in the bubble next to the correct answer.
 1. Which of these states a fact?
A 
Silence is creepy.
B 
The moon has no atmosphere.
C 
People should not live on the moon.
D 
Seeing stars all the time is strange.
 2. Which of these states an opinion?
A 
The moon’s gravity is weaker
than Earth’s.
B 
Plants do not grow on the moon.
C 
Stomping on moon dust would
be fun.
D 
Noise cannot be heard on the moon.
 3. Which can be proved about the moon?
A 
The silence is creepy.
B 
People like looking at the moon.
C 
Nothing lives there.
D 
Exploring the moon is fun.
 4. What is the second paragraph 
mostly about?
A 
the reasons there is no life
on the moon
B 
how the moon’s atmosphere works
C 
why it is quiet on the moon
D 
reasons to live on the moon
STRATEGY PRACTICE
Write the main idea and one fact and one opinion from the second 
paragraph.
Fact and Opinion
3453.indb 92
5/6/10 4:00 PM

---

Name: 
© Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 3453 • Daily Reading Comprehension 
93
WEEK 14
Cause and Effect 
Fact and Opinion
DAY 5
READ THE PASSAGE
Visualize what you read about giraffes.
Giants of the Grasslands
Being 16 feet tall can be a good thing. Giraffes can see far across the 
grasslands of Africa, where they live. They can be on the alert for hungry lions. 
Their height makes it easy to reach treetops for food. 
To get enough food, giraffes have to eat nearly all day long. They eat about 
75 pounds of leaves every day. Giraffes like to eat the thorny leaves of one kind of 
tree. Their saliva is amazing. It is thick like paste and protects their mouths from 
the thorns. And their thick lips act like cushions. A giraffe’s tongue is interesting, 
too. It’s about 20 inches long. The tongue is a dark blue-black color, so the hot 
sun does not burn it. The tongue wraps around food and grabs it the way you use 
your fingers and hand. 
A big animal like a giraffe needs a big heart to pump blood through its body.
A giraffe’s heart weighs about 25 pounds. And that’s about the size of a beagle.
Everything about a giraffe is big!