Winter's Tail questions and answers
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Isabel Choe
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Winter's Tail questions and answers
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Text Feature: Photographs
Look at the photograph on page 236.
Where is the dolphin? What do you notice about its tail?
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Text Feature: Photographs
Where is the dolphin? What do you notice about its tail?
Answer: The dolphin is in the water and its tail looks like it might be plastic.
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Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
What is the main idea on page 238?
What key details support this main idea?
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Main Idea: A fisherman named Jim Savage found a dolphin tangled in a rope.
Detail #1: The rope from a crab trap was wrapped around her mouth and tail. She couldn't breathe normally and she was curled like a horseshoe.
Detail #2: Jim rescued the dolphin by cutting the rope.
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Text Features: Photographs and Captions
What information can you learn about the dolphin from the photograph and the caption that you do not learn in the text?
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Answer
The trainer wrapped the dolphin in a blanket to keep her warm.
The trainer got close to the dolphin and wrapped her arms around the dolphin and wrapped her arms around the dolphin to help calm her down.
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Genre: Expository Text
Expository texts provide facts and details about a topic.
What facts and details do you learn about Winter in this paragraph?
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Answer
Veterinarians, dolphin trainers, and volunteers were there to help, the dolphin had been out of the water for three hours, and it was a cold night.
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Skill: Make Inferences
Does the staff believe that Winter will survive?
What evidence supports your inference?
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They knew that WInter's struggling meant she had the heart and energy to protect herself..
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Author's Craft: Text Structure
The word but is a signal word that tells readers the author is explaining how two things are different.
What two things does the author contrast in the first sentence on page 242?
What details does the author provide?
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The author compares the way Winter swam with her injured tail to the way other dolphins swim.
Dolphins move their tails up and down, but Winter moved hers side to side like a fish or shark.
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Skill: Sequence
When did Winter begin daily training lessons with the handlers?
What events happened before Winter was ready to begin her training?
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She began training lessons when she was about five months old.
The wound on her tail healed and she got used to her home and her handlers.
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Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Paraphrase the key details on page 243.
Use these details to determine the main idea.
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Main Idea: Trainers wondered what would happen when Winter met another dolphin.
Detail #1: Winter swam out to greet Panama because Panama stayed away from Winter.
Detail #2: Winter kept approaching Panama.
Detail #3: After three days, Panama let Winter swim near her.
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Text Features: Photographs and Captions
Look at the photograph and read the caption on page 245.
How do they help you understand what Kevin and his team did for Winter?
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Answer
The photograph shows what the prosthesis for Winter looks like and how the team members worked on it.
The caption explains who the people in the photograph are and what they are doing.
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Vocabulary: Latin Roots
What word can you find in the last sentence on page 245 that has the Latin room mim-?
Mim- means "repeat," and the suffix -ic means "having the character of."
Use the root and the sentence to determine the meaning of mimic.
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Answer
The word is mimic.
Using the root and the context of the tail's "up-and-down movement," we can determine that mimic must mean "to repeat or copy the action of something else."
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Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
What details do you read in this paragraph?
Use these details to determine the main idea.
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Main Idea: Winter seems to like her new tail.
Detail #1: Winter swims in circles to chase her tail.
Detail #2: She shows off by flicking it in Panama's face.
Detail #3: She sometimes doesn't want to take her tail off.
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Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
What key details do you read on page 248?
Use these details to determine the main idea.
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Main Idea: Winter's success is inspiring many people and helping others.
Detail #1: Winter's trainers think she has a special understanding with visitors.
Detail #2: A little girl decided to start wearing a hearing aid after meeting her.
Detail #3: Kevin Carroll used the gel he developed for Winter on prostheses for Iraq war veterans.
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