M2 U1 L2

M2 U1 L2

Building Background Knowledge: Launching Research of Animal Defense Mechanisms

Multiple Choice

What is prey?

• an animal caught by a predator

• an animal trying to catch another animal

Multiple Choice

What is a predator?

• an animal caught by prey

• an animal catching prey to eat

Multiple Choice

What is Camouflage 

• Taking the background and copy it
• coping another animal or thing to survive 

Multiple Choice

What is mimicry

• Taking the background and copy it
• coping another animal or thing to survive 

Open Ended

Why is it important for writers to research?

Open Ended

What are different ways writers might conduct, or do, research?

Open Ended

What is this text mostly about?

Multiple Choice

A good paraphrase has the _____________ ___________, different words, and different word order.

• same ideas

• different ideas

• weird synonyms

Multiple Choice

Venom is different from poison how?

• Poisonous things bite you, you bite venomous things

• Larger animals have venom, smaller animals have poison

• Venom is a Spider-Man villain, Poison is a Batman villain.

• Venomous things bite you, you bite poisonous things

Multiple Choice

For the next original sentence choose the best paraphrase sentence: Giraffes like Acacia leaves and hay and they can consume 75 pounds of food a day.

• A giraffe can eat up to 75 pounds of Acacia leaves and hay everyday.

• A giraffe eats a lot of Acacia leaves.