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3 The reproduction of any part of this book and/or CD for other classrooms or for an entire school or school system is strictly prohibited. No part of this publication may be transmitted or recorded in any form without written permission from the publisher with the exception of electronic material, which may be stored on the purchaser s computer Common Core State Standards correlations, visit Mackey Collins, M. Created Resources12621 Western AvenueGarden Grove, CA : 978-1-4206-3659-8 2014 Teacher Created ResourcesReprinted, 2017 Made in of ContentsIntroduction.

4 4 Leveling Chart ..6 Nonfiction Passages ..7 Disasters ..9 The Great Quake The Chicago Fire The Dust Bowl The Galveston Hurricane The Black Death Pompeii The Sticky Explosion The Hindenburg The Titanic The Twin Towers The New Madrid Fault Mount St. Helens: A Deadly Volcano Chernobyl: A Nuclear Disaster The Space Shuttle Catastrophe Hurricane KatrinaBiographies ..24 William Driver Thomas Jefferson King Tut Butch Cassidy Milton Hershey Helen Keller Harry Houdini Benjamin Franklin Anne Frank Amelia Earhart Elvis Presley Laura Ingalls Wilder Rosa Parks Princess Diana Levi Strauss Jesse JamesAmerican History.

5 40 History Slavery Independence The Louisiana Purchase The Wild West Early Inventions Women s Suffrage The Roaring Twenties The Great Depression World War II The Iron Curtain Civil Rights The Race into Space The American-Indian Movement VietnamAnimals ..55 Animal Rights Bats Monkeypox Migration Pythons Bedbugs Sleeping Sickness Elephants Sheep Jellyfish Ticks Chinchillas Animal Experiments Service Animals#3659 Daily Warm-Ups: Reading 2 Teacher Created ResourcesTable of Contents (cont.)Fiction Passages ..69 Mythology.

6 71 Mythology Echo Greek Mythology Hephaestus Creation Poseidon The Titans Cyclops Horus Dragons Set Persephone The Underworld Medusa Athena ZeusFairy Tales/Folklore ..87A Messed-Up Fairy Tale Dragon Achoo The Tortoise and the Snail Let Down Your Hare Beauty and the Bear Let Me In! The Curse The Cat s Meow All That Glitters Little Miss Little Blue Riding Hood The Old Woman and the Doctor The Unusual Mice The Sweet Touch What Is True? An Unusual FriendshipHistorical ..103 The Great Inventor Saying Goodbye The Land of the Free Everyone s Dream Making a Difference Disaster in the Sky A Twist of Fate The Man on the Moon The British Are Coming The Unending Dust A Time for Hope The Teddy Bear Gone Too Soon Troubling ThoughtsContemporary Realism.

7 117 Forgiving The Lucky Break Lost and Found Don t Stop the Music The Unexpected Gift Winter Blues High in the Sky Unexpected Help The Day Off Tastes Like Chicken Hoping for the Best Not So Easy The Amazing Win The Unexpected Invitation Capturing the Moment Welcome HomeMystery/Suspense/Adventure ..133 Howling in the Night Dangerous Falls The Walking Dead? The Noise Upstairs Whitewater Rafting The Haunted Woods Missing! Surprise Visitors Safe and Sound The Missing Party Flying High The Pilfered Pies The Guest Ready, Set, Race!

8 The FireFantasy ..148 The Best Wish Catch Us If You Can The Stranger s Gift Good Witch, Bad Witch Mermaids? A Night for a Knight The Last of the Unicorns The Book of Spells Super Powers Bright Lights The Talking Animals Ancient Times Searching for Big Foot A Dream Come True The Birthday Surprise Lucky Pair of ShoesTracking Sheet ..164 Answer Key ..165 Teacher Created Resources 3 #3659 Daily Warm-Ups: ReadingIntroductionThe goal of this book is to improve students reading and comprehension skills. The more experience a student has with reading and comprehending, the better reader and problem-solver he or she will be.

9 Daily Warm-Ups: Reading contains a variety of passages to be read on a daily basis. Each passage is followed by comprehension questions. The questions that follow the passages are based on Bloom s Taxonomy and allow for higher-level thinking skills. Making this book a part of your daily classroom agenda can help your students reading and comprehension abilities improve and FictionDaily Warm-Ups: Reading is divided into two sections: nonfiction and fiction. It is important for students to be exposed to a variety of reading genres and formats.

10 The nonfiction section is divided into four categories. These categories are disasters, biographies, American history, and animals. By reading these nonfiction passages, your students will be exposed to a variety of nonfiction information, as well as questions to stimulate thinking on these fiction section of the book is divided into six categories. These categories are mythology, fairy tales/folklore, historical fiction, contemporary realism, mystery/suspense/adventure, and fantasy. Each story is followed by questions to stimulate thinking on the plot, characters, vocabulary, and QuestionsComprehension is the primary goal of any reading task.