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

monitor our comprehension is to make connections about what we are reading. We can check the 
information in the passage against what we know about the topic. Read the instructions at the top 
of the page aloud. Then have students read the passage. When students have finished, direct them to 
complete the skill practice activity. Review the answers together. For the strategy practice activity, 
pair students or complete it as a group.
DAY
5
Tell students they will practice both the
 Compare and Contrast
and 
Make Inferences
skills. Read the 
instructions at the top of the page aloud. Then have students read the passage. When students have 
finished, direct them to complete the skill practice activity. Review the answers together. For the 
strategy practice activity, remind students of the 
Ask Questions 
strategy. Say: We can ask other 
people questions about what we have read. Direct students to reread the passage and ask a partner 
a question about something they read. Invite volunteers to share their best question.
Compare and Contrast
Students look for similarities and differences between two or more people or things.
Make Inferences
Students look for clues in the passage and draw upon their own experience 
to understand information that is not directly stated.
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WEEK 27
DAY 1
READ THE PASSAGE
 Find ways that you and trees are the same and different.
Trees and You
You’re not covered in bark, and birds don’t nest in your hair. Unlike a tree, 
you can’t be made into furniture and paper. And yet you and a tree are alike in 
some ways. 
First of all, you both are living things. Like you, trees need water, air, and food 
to survive. Trees make their own food by using water, air, and energy from the sun. 
Your body takes the food and water you give it and changes them into the nutrients 
it needs.