Reading Checkpoint: A Winter’s Trip

What is this article mostly about?

• reindeer fur

• how reindeer’s bodies help them

• animals that live in the snow

An adaptation is something that .

• hurts an animal

• helps an animal survive where it lives
• makes an animal very hungry

How do reindeer find plants to eat when the ground is covered in snow?

• They use their noses to dig up the plants.

• They use their antlers to dig up the plants.

• They wait until the snow melts.

A caption tells about a photo. It is on or near the photo. Look at the big photo of the reindeer on page 2. What does the caption tell you? [nonfiction text features]

• how reindeer stay warm

• how many times reindeer migrate each year

• where the reindeer migrate to each year

Why do you think the author wrote this article? [author’s purpose]

• to give facts about reindeer

• to tell a story about a lost reindeer

• to make readers want to take a long trip