Feathers: Not Just for Flying (Reading Comprehension)

Why did the author write this book?

• To persuade us to have birds.

• To inform us about different ways birds use their feathers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.8

Feathers can make high pitched sounds like a...

• train.

• whistle

Feathers can...

• shade out the sun like an umbrella.

• be used as a spoon.

What is the genre of this book?

• Informational Text

• biography

Why does the author, Melissa Stewart, compare feathers to everyday objects; such as backhoe?

• to help the reader identify what the feathers looks like

• to help the reader understand the important jobs of feathers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.8

What is the topic of the story Feathers: Not Just for Flying?

• Feathers

• adaptation

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

What is the purpose of this informational text?

• inform/explain

• persuade

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

The heron's feathers are tricolored. What does tricolored mean?

• made up of four colors

• made up of three colors

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RI.4.4

A female cardinal's dull, grayish-tan body and feathers blend in with her forest home. What does the phrase blend in refer to?

• camouflage

• migration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.4

"Feathers can distract attackers like a bullfighter's cape" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A