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Harcourt Storytown Lesson 24 “Mangrove Wilderness” Comprehension BOOSTER Name____________________________________ Monday Vocabulary Words Use your glossary in the back of your reading book to help you fill in the blanks below: remarkable suitable advantage extract withstand stealthy 1. The shark is a ______________________ predator! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The large grassy area was ______________________ for the AR Fun Day games. The tiger was a very ________________________ hunter. Coalminers must go deep into the earth to _________________ the coal. The metal roof could not ________________________ the winds of the tornado. The runner took _________________________ of the first baseman’s mistake. Page 628 What GENRE gives facts and information about a topic? ____________________________ Tuesday Read pages 629-632 and answer the following. Be sure to use complete sentences. 1. What is unusual about where the red mangrove grows? __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why does the red mangrove look like it is on stilts? __________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What causes the water around the red mangroves to turn red? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What is the next step in the life-cycle of the red mangrove after the flowers bloom? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. How is the sprouting of seeds on red mangroves different from that in most other kinds of trees? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What happens to mangrove seeds that enables them to grow in salt water? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday Read pages 633- 635 and answer the following using complete sentences. 7. What happens to the red mangrove seedlings after they fall from the tree? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Explain how oyster bars are formed. Use details from the passage to support your answer. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What happens to debris that collects in the mangrove roots? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What happens after land builds up around red mangroves? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Read pages 636- 641 and answer the following using complete sentences. 11. What is detritus? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What role do mangrove leaves play in the mangrove wilderness food chain? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What part do people play in the food chain of the mangrove wilderness? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What is a constrictor? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Which senses do the raccoon and the snowy egret use to catch their food? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Why are the mangrove islands safe places for birds to make their nests? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday Read pages 644-645 “Mangrove” and answer the following using complete sentences. 17. Mangrove roots strain debris from the water. What eventually happens to this debris? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 18. “Mangrove Wilderness” and “Mangrove” both talk about red mangroves. What is special about this kind of mangrove? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 19. How does the map support the text information about mangrove swamps? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 20. WRITE A SUMMARY of “Mangrove” on the lines below. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________
