• 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 best describes
who the passage is about?
A 
a woman who won awards
B 
an underwater scientist 
C 
a woman who likes to dive
D 
a person who studies animals
 2. The setting of most of the passage 
is 
.
A 
a lab under the sea
B 
a diving suit
C 
the deep sea
D 
outer space
 3. Based on what you read, what is true 
about Dr. Sylvia Earle?
A 
She is helpless.
B 
She is calm.
C 
She is curious.
D 
She is weak.
 4. Dr. Earle’s helmet had four windows 
so that she 
.
A 
could see as many stars as possible
B 
would not get lost in the ocean
C 
could make the deepest dive ever
D 
could see all around her
STRATEGY PRACTICE
Write a sentence about a time you explored.
Character and Setting
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Daily Reading Comprehension • EMC 3453 • © Evan-Moor Corp.
WEEK 10
DAY 2
READ THE PASSAGE
Visualize the sea lions.
Sea Animal Surprise
People usually go to the ocean to watch sea animals. But sometimes sea 
animals go to land to see people!
Monterey, California, is a city by the Pacific Ocean. California sea lions, which 
look like seals, live in those waters. Every day, sea lions are seen resting on rocks. 
In 2009, however, hundreds of barking sea lions waddled out of the ocean. They 
used their webbed flippers to scoot along. They moved up boat ramps and onto 
docks. Some even came onto a parking lot. A few checked out the restrooms.
Most of the sea lions that came ashore were tired from spending a long time 
looking for fish to eat. They plopped down to nap. A person was hired to get the 
sea lions back to their ocean home. He used a broom to shoo them back into
the sea.