Reading Fluency - M6W3 Hibernation

Animals sleep all winter

Hibernation is the same as sleeping

Hibernation helps animals survive cold winters

Bears are the best hibernators

Animals may shiver when they wake up

A hibernating animal’s body slows down to save energy

People sleep every night

Animals look frozen

Because they are tired

Because they like the cold

Because food is hard to find in winter

Because they want to sleep longer

A short nap

A deep winter rest where the body slows down

Running to stay warm

Moving to a new place

meta-

-ism

A sentence describing how cells make energy

The word animal

The word describes a person

The word names an action or process

The word means small

The word shows time

The animal wakes up faster

The animal needs more food

The animal uses less energy

The animal gets colder outside

Because it is scared

Because it is hungry

Because it needs to raise its body temperature

Because it wants to sleep again

Cause: Animals sleep → Effect: They feel tired

Cause: Body temperature drops → Effect: Animals move faster

Cause: Winter food is scarce → Effect: Animals hibernate

Cause: Animals wake up → Effect: Winter begins

To entertain the reader with animal stories

To show that all animals hibernate the same way

To explain that hibernation can happen in different ways

To convince readers to like bats