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Summarize More than 200 million years ago, Some of these logs are 100 feet long! Whole Group dinosaurs roamed freely over Today, they create a colorful and Main Idea and Details the Earth. Have you ever wondered amazing sight in Arizona’s desert. The main idea of an what the land was like or what kind Th e petrifi ed logs look like wooden of trees there were then? You can see rainbows. Th e colors range from red, VOCABULARY article is what it is mostly some of these trees today in Arizona! to yellow, to green, to blue, and black about. Details give more Th roughout 28 miles of desert in and white. Petrifi ed Forest National Park, you can Petrifi ed Forest National Park is information about the see 225-million-year-old fossil trees. one of the world’s biggest displays of roamed, completed, journey, main idea. Visitors are amazed to see these trees petrifi ed wood. Nearly one million that have turned to stone. people visit the park every year to get A male and female elk in their new home, How did it happen? Millions of an up-close look at these fossils of natural, wildlife the Great Smoky Mountains National Park years ago, water fi lled with minerals prehistoric trees. fl owed into the area. Over time, the minerals seeped into fallen trees and Logs from prehistoric trees have turned to stone in the Petrifi ed National Forest. turned them into rock-hard logs. Word Parts/Compound Words

COMPREHENSION 72 How did the return of elk Strategy: Summarize to one national park and gray wolves to another affect Vocabulary/ Skill: Main Idea and Details the ecosystems of those parks? Comprehension National parks protect wildlife, history, and culture. Still, hundreds of plants and animals have disappeared from our national parks. That’s because their environment TEST STRATEGY has changed, mostly because of human activities. Right There Today park rangers work to restore the balance of each park ecosystem. They are bringing plants and animals

back into their natural environments. So far, the programs Answer Questions are working—especially for elk and wolves. WRITING Saving a National Park 74 Test Strategy Early settlers declared Florida’s Everglades a Right There worthless swamp. In fact it is a unique paradise You can put your finger on for thousands of species of plants and animals, Extended Response to forming a delicate food chain. All they need to the answer. Look for key words in the question. Then survive is each other—and a steady supply of find those key words in the precious water. selection. Literature But humans wanted dry land for homes and Social Studies Link crops. Th ey drained water from the Everglades. Th is started a chain reaction that upset the ecosystem.

Florida panther Th e Everglades wetlands are now only half their original size. Th e number of wading birds decreased Social Studies Link Main Selection by 90 percent from 1900 to 2000. All this has made Everglades National Park one of the top ten most endangered parks in the United States. Genre Nonfiction Article Now there is a plan to save the Everglades. Geography Engineers will build wells to capture water before it fl ows out of the Everglades. Th en they will pump the water back. Many canals will be removed, allowing water to follow its natural path. Th e plan may take 50 years to complete. Saving this unique ecosystem is an important goal, no matter how long it takes. Small Group Options Meet Some Everglades Species Wood Stork Manatee An endangered species This slow-moving in the Everglades, this tall mammal lives in bird hunts for fish with its both fresh water long, curved bill. and salt water. Crocodile, Alligator Differentiated Instruction The Everglades is the only place in the world for with both reptiles. 78 Go On Tested Skills Test Strategy/ Right There

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Real World Reading Answer Questions Real World Reading Saving a National Park Comprehension Test Strategy Early settlers declared Florida’s Everglades a Comprehension worthless swamp. In fact it is a unique paradise Genre Right There Genre A Nonfiction Article tells You can put your finger on for thousands of species of plants and animals, A Nonfiction Article tells facts about a person, place, the answer. Look for key forming a delicate food chain. All they need to facts about a person, place, or event. words in the question. Then survive is each other—and a steady supply of or event. find those key words in the precious water. selection. Summarize But humans wanted dry land for homes and Summarize Main Idea and Details Main Idea and Details The main idea of an crops. Th ey drained water from the Everglades. Th is The main idea of an article is what it is mostly started a chain reaction that upset the ecosystem. article is what it is mostly about. Details give more about. Details give more Florida panther Th e Everglades wetlands are now only half their information about the original size. Th e number of wading birds decreased information about the Animals Come Home to main idea. “Saving a National Self-Selected Reading, main idea. by 90 percent from 1900 to 2000. All this has made A male and female elk in their new home, A male and female elk in their new home, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Everglades National Park one of the top ten most the Great Smoky Mountains National Park endangered parks in the United States. Now there is a plan to save the Everglades. Engineers will build wells to capture water Our National Parks, Park,” 78–79 before it fl ows out of the Everglades. Th en they 70I will pump the water back. Many canals will be removed, allowing water to follow its natural path. Th e plan may take 50 years to complete. How did the return of elk Saving this unique ecosystem is an important How did the return of elk to one national park and gray goal, no matter how long it takes. to one national park and gray 74–77 wolves to another affect wolves to another affect the ecosystems of those parks? Meet Some Everglades Species the ecosystems of those parks? National parks protect wildlife, history, and culture. Wood Stork Manatee National parks protect wildlife, history, and culture. Still, hundreds of plants and animals have disappeared An endangered species This slow-moving Still, hundreds of plants and animals have disappeared from our national parks. That’s because their environment in the Everglades, this tall mammal lives in from our national parks. That’s because their environment has changed, mostly because of human activities. bird hunts for fish with its both fresh water has changed, mostly because of human activities. long, curved bill. Crocodile, Alligator Today park rangers work to restore the balance of each Test Strategy: Right There and salt water. Today park rangers work to restore the balance of each The Everglades is the park ecosystem. They are bringing plants and animals only place in the world park ecosystem. They are bringing plants and animals back into their natural environments. So far, the programs with both reptiles. back into their natural environments. So far, the programs are working—especially for elk and wolves. are working—especially for elk and wolves. Comprehension 74 78 Go On Comprehension 74 Comprehension Check, 77 Student Book Student Book Strategy: Summarize Student Book Maintain Skill: Main Idea and Details, 73B Research and Study Skills Skill: Main Idea and Details Using the Dictionary, 77B Practice Book A-O-B, 19

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Animals Come Home to Our National Parks 70J Talk About It National parks are wonderful places. What things could you learn about at a national park? ORAL LANGUAGE • Build Background Find out more about our national parks at • Read Aloud www.macmillanmh.com • Expand Vocabulary VOCABULARY • Teach Words in Context • Compound Words COMPREHENSION • Strategy: Summarize • Skill: Main Idea and Details

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ACCESS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE 70 Share the following information. National parks are places that preserve nature and history. There are more than 380 in the United States.

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71 RESPOND TO THE POEM Ask students to think of a river or other body of water that they know. Have them describe how it flows and Picture Prompt compare it to the Everglades.

Look at the picture. Write about what you see. You can write a poem, Expand Vocabulary a story, or a description, or use any other type of writing you like. Ask students to identify three more words in the poem that relate to this week’s theme of Our National BSQV\]Z]Ug Parks. Students can write the words For an extended lesson plan and Web site activities for oral in a word journal and create new language development, go to www.macmillanmh.com sentences using each of the words.

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Vocabulary/Comprehension Student page 72 Vocabulary roamed Vocabulary completed Prehistoric journey TEACH WORDS IN CONTEXT natural wildlife Park Use the following routine. @]cbW\S More than 200 million years ago, Some of these logs are 100 feet long! dinosaurs roamed freely over Today, they create a colorful and Define: A person who roamed moved the Earth. Have you ever wondered amazing sight in Arizona’s desert. what the land was like or what kind Th e petrifi ed logs look like wooden around with no purpose. of trees there were then? You can see rainbows. Th e colors range from red, Example: Large herds of buffalo once some of these trees today in Arizona! to yellow, to green, to blue, and black roamed the prairies. Th roughout 28 miles of desert in and white. Ask: How is “He roamed” different from Petrifi ed Forest National Park, you can Petrifi ed Forest National Park is see 225-million-year-old fossil trees. “He ran a race”? COMPARE AND CONTRAST one of the world’s biggest displays of Visitors are amazed to see these trees petrifi ed wood. Nearly one million that have turned to stone. people visit the park every year to get ■ Something is completed when it is How did it happen? Millions of an up-close look at these fossils of years ago, water fi lled with minerals prehistoric trees. finished. I completed my scrapbook fl owed into the area. Over time, the after our trip. What is a synonym for minerals seeped into fallen trees and Logs from prehistoric trees have turned to stone in the Petrifi ed National Forest. completed? SYNONYM turned them into rock-hard logs. ■ A journey is a long trip. She went on a journey to Alaska. Tell about a journey you or someone you know took. DESCRIPTION ■ Something that is made by nature or is not artificial is natural . Cotton is a natural fabric. Natural can also mean 72 having qualities that are inborn. Do you have any natural talents? EXAMPLE ■ Animals living in their natural environment are called wildlife . The growth of cities puts wildlife in danger. &-- How might building more houses affect Practice Vocabulary Make concept webs to develop deeper wildlife? EXPLANATION comprehension of the words. For wildlife, use these categories: plants, animals, habitats, food sources, and challenges. Ask, What wildlife have you seen around home and on TV? For journey, explain Do students understand there are different meanings. For example, travel to other places, or word meanings? stay inside your head and take a journey with your thoughts. During Small Group Instruction

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72 Vocabulary/Comprehension Student page 73 King of theBy theMountain time Scott Cory was 13 years old, he had already scaled two major peaks in California’s Yosemite National Park. One was Vocabulary the 2,900-foot “Nose” of El Capitan. Th e other was the 2,000-foot face of Half Dome. Th e fi rst time STRATEGY Scott climbed the Nose, it took him three days and WORD PARTS two nights. One month later, he completed that climb in one day! Later, Scott became the youngest person Compound Words Explain that both to climb Half Dome in only one day. Th e journey to the English and other languages combine top usually takes three days! Scott started climbing when he was seven years old. When base or root words to form new he’s not on the peaks, he hits the gym for push-ups and pull-ups. words called compound words. Write What’s next for this peak pro? Scott wants to climb to the examples in English such as fireman, top of the Nose and Half Dome together in just 24 hours. You schoolbus, and wastebasket. Ask non- could say this kid really sets a goal and then climbs for it! native speakers how their languages Find out more about Yosemite National Park at www.macmillanmh.com say these words. See if students whose first language is not English can find The Top Most Visited National Parks examples of compound words from The Top 55 Most Visited National Parks their primary language. In 1872, Yellowstone National 1. Great Smoky Mountains Point to the word wildlife in “The Top Park became the fi rst national National Park, North park in the United States. Since Carolina and Tennessee 5 Most Visited National Parks.” Ask then, more than 383 parks have 2. Grand Canyon National students to identify its base words. been added to the list. More Park, Arizona Have them tell the meaning of the than three million people visit these natural, unspoiled places 3. Yosemite National Park, word from what they know about its California every year. They take thousands base words. of photos of the wildlife. Which 4. Olympic National Park, parks recently brought in the Washington most visitors in a year? Here’s 5. Rocky Mountain National Read “A Prehistoric Park” how they ranked. Park, Colorado As you read “A Prehistoric Park” with 73 students, ask them to look for more compound words in the selection. (throughout, rainbow) Tell them that they will find more compound words On Level Practice Book O, page 15 as they read Animals Come Home to

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MODEL Reread the first paragraph of “A Prehistoric Park” on Student Book page 72.

Think Aloud The first sentence of a paragraph is often the main idea. Is that true for the first paragraph? No, none of the other sentences are about dinosaurs. Sometimes there may be no single sentence in a paragraph that states the main idea. By summing up the details, I can draw a conclusion about the main idea. I think it is that people can see what trees were like when dinosaurs were alive by visiting Petrified Forest National Park.

GUIDED PRACTICE Help students identify details that support the main idea in the first paragraph. (People can see some of these trees in Arizona. Petrified Forest National Park has 225-million-year-old fossils of trees. Visitors come to see the trees that were turned into stone.)

APPLY ■ Have students identify the main idea of the second paragraph. (The colored logs are fossils of ancient trees.) Then have them identify the details that support the main idea. (The logs were formed millions of years ago. Mineral-rich water flowed into the area where the trees were. The minerals replaced the wood in the dead trees. The “logs” are really multi-colored rocks.)

■ Ask students to tell which details do not support the main idea in the second paragraph and why. (The sentence about the length of On Level Practice Book 0, page 16 the logs does not support the main idea of how the colorful logs

came to be.) The main idea of a selection tells you what it is about. The supporting details in the selection help you understand the main idea. ■ Ask students to summarize the article using the main ideas. (In Read the paragraph below. Then identify the main idea and three a national park in the Arizona desert, visitors can see “trees” that details that support it. Possible responses provided. Cumberland Gap National Park is under attack! A plant called kudzu threatens the park’s ecosystem. Few animals eat kudzu and it grows so fast existed at the time of the dinosaurs. The trees are really fossils that it’s been called “the vine that ate the South.” It can grow a foot a night! It grows even after it has been dosed with herbicide, or plant killer. That’s were formed when the minerals in water replaced the wood. The bad news for native plants and trees. Kudzu grows right over them. It takes the sunlight plants need to live. Bits of kudzu came to Cumberland stuck minerals cause the “logs” to have many colors. Close to a million to truck tires. The trucks were there to build a road. Now park rangers cut kudzu back. They apply herbicide to the plant’s huge root. They could bring in goats because goats eat kudzu. But goats also eat native plants. people come to see this large display of fossils every year.) Solving the kudzu problem will be tricky.

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