Each text has a figure and questions under it: whale lengths on a bar graph (page 1, more questions on page 2), the bald eagle's comeback on a time line and a bar graph (pages 3 and 4, more questions on page 5), a table of how long baby animals grow before birth (page 6) and a labelled owl diagram (page 7). Page 8 works with any text that has a figure.
Cover the figure and read the text first. Then uncover it and ask: what do you know now that you did not know before? Make a list of what each kind of figure is good at showing.
Look for graphs, maps and diagrams in a newspaper, a magazine or a cereal box. Ask your child what each one shows that the words do not.
Short texts about whales, bald eagles, baby animals and owls, written at a 4th grade level, each with a bar graph, a time line, a table or a labelled diagram. Children read the words and the figure together and explain what the figure adds.
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