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

STRATEGY PRACTICE
Underline the sentence in the passage that explains why
the shark in the aquarium was special. 
Nonfiction Text Features
Great White Shark Facts
•
swim up to 25 miles 
an hour
•
can go three months 
without eating
•
have 2 to 14 babies
at one time
•
have a powerful
sense of smell
•
are endangered
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Daily Reading Comprehension • EMC 3453 • © Evan-Moor Corp.
WEEK 24
DAY 2
READ THE TABLE OF CONTENTS
Study the table of contents, and then use it
to answer the questions.
SKILL PRACTICE
Read the question. Fill in the bubble next to the correct answer.
 1. How are the stories organized?
A 
in alphabetical order
B 
in the order they appear in the book
C 
from the easiest stories to the hardest
D 
from the hottest months to the coldest
 2. If you are reading page 17, which story 
are you reading?
A 
“The Goats in the Garden”
B 
“Over in the Meadow”
C 
“What a Skunk Needs to Do”
D 
“Little Spider Spins a Web”
 3. Which one would be best to add 
to the book?
A 
directions for how to grow tomatoes
B 
a story about a missing penguin
C 
a page of diagrams about barn owls
D 
an article about caves
 4. Which of these is one reason to use 
a table of contents?
A 
to look for hard words to read
B 
to know who wrote the book
C 
to find out if the book interests you
D 
to find the meaning of a word