• 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 one can happen in real life?
A 
A stork can use dishes to eat.
B 
A fox can make soup for dinner.
C 
Stew can be made with meat 
and vegetables.
D 
A stork can prepare dinner.
 2. What in the passage is fantasy?
A 
A stork teaches a fox a lesson.
B 
A stork has a long, narrow bill.
C 
A fox laps up its food.
D 
A fox wants to eat meat.
 3. Which one describes Fox?
A 
a good friend
B 
smarter than Stork
C 
not a true friend
D 
a good cook
 4. Which lesson about friendship
does Stork teach Fox?
A 
Always share your food with 
your friends.
B 
Treat your friends the way
you want to be treated.
C 
Some animals cannot be trusted.
D 
Never serve soup to friends.
STRATEGY PRACTICE
Tell a partner how you feel when a friend is kind to you
and when a friend is unkind.
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Daily Reading Comprehension • EMC 3453 • © Evan-Moor Corp.
11
WEEK
DAY
1
Introduce the 
Author’s Purpose
skill to students. Say: When good readers read, they think about 
why an author wrote a passage. The most common purposes are to tell us more about a topic, to 
teach us how to do something, to persuade us to think or do a certain thing, or to entertain us. 
Think of common examples of different types of writing, and help students figure out what the 
author’s purpose is (e.g., A textbook tells us more about a topic. A recipe tells us how to make 
something. An editorial persuades. A story entertains.). Read the instructions at the top of the page 
aloud. Then read the first paragraph aloud to students. Remind students of the 
Ask Questions
strategy, which was taught during Week 5. Model questions students can ask themselves as they read 
that will help them with 
Author’s Purpose
(e.g., 
Why did the author write this? What is the author 
going to tell me about?).
Have students write their question in the space provided for the strategy 
practice activity. Then have students read the rest of the passage. When students have finished, 
invite volunteers to share their strategy practice question and discuss how it helped them set a 
purpose for reading. Then direct students to complete the skill practice activity. Review the answers 
together.