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__**Common Core Connections: Planning**__


__**Text Selection**__
 * TEXT 1: Giant Pandas, by Kira Freed
 * Lexile Level: 601 - 650
 * Reading Recovery: 28
 * DRA {Developmental Reading Assessment}: 28
 * Reading A - Z: Level P


 * TEXT 2: Giant Pandas, by Gail Gibbons
 * Lexile Level: 860
 * DRA {Developmental Reading Assessment}: 38

__**Common Core Standard: English Language Arts**__
 * Standard {RI.2.6}: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

__**Text Dependent Questions {TDQ's}**__
 * 1) **//Giant Pandas, by Kira Freed//**
 * 2) __Before Reading__
 * 3) What is the title of this book?
 * 4) What does it look like this book will be about?
 * 5) Does this look like it will be fiction or nonfiction? How can you tell?
 * 6) When we read nonfiction books about animals, we expect to find certain kinds of information. What kinds of information might we learn about pandas in a book like this?
 * 7) __During Reading__
 * 8) Page 4: Describe what makes a panda "easily recognizable" in the wild.
 * 9) Page 5: What is bamboo? Explain why it is important to the giant pandas diet.
 * 10) Page 5: What is the author's purpose for writing the section titled "Food and Feeding?"
 * 11) Page 6: What characteristics of a baby panda make it vulnerable to predators?
 * 12) Page 7: What might happen to a panda cub that does not stay close to its mother during the first years of its life?
 * 13) Page 8: Describe the signs that giant pandas use to mark their territory.
 * 14) Page 8: What is the author's purpose for using a diagram to identify the size of a giant panda?
 * 15) Page 10: Explain why giant pandas are in danger of becoming extinct.
 * 16) Page 10: What is the author's purpose for writing the section titled "Giant Panda Survival?"
 * 17) __After Reading__
 * 18) What is the main purpose of this text?
 * 19) What is the author trying to answer, explain, or describe?


 * 1) **//Giant Pandas, by Gail Gibbons//**
 * 2) __Before Reading__
 * 3) What is the title of this book?
 * 4) What does it look like this book will be about?
 * 5) Does this look like it will be fiction or nonfiction? How can you tell?
 * 6) When we read nonfiction books about animals, we expect to find certain kinds of information. What kinds of information might we learn about pandas in a book like this?
 * 7) __During Reading__
 * 8) What is the author's purpose for using a map? What do the different colors show?
 * 9) Why did the author use the word "poor" to describe the giant pandas eyesight?
 * 10) What words did the author use to describe the sounds that a giant panda makes?
 * 11) Compare and contrast a bark and a squeal. When might a panda use those two sounds?
 * 12) If a giant panda was walking in the woods and heard a rustle, what sense, or senses would the giant panda use?
 * 13) What is another way that giant pandas communicate?
 * 14) Explain why the author used the word "occasionally" when describing the giant pandas diet.
 * 15) What does the word "grasp" mean in this sentence?
 * 16) Explain why giant pandas spend so much time throughout the day eating.
 * 17) What do the illustrations teach you about giant pandas?
 * 18) Explain how the female giant panda creates a den.
 * 19) The author states that the cubs "cry sounds like a human baby." What is being compared here?
 * 20) Explain why the author used the word "helpless" to describe a cub.
 * 21) Explain why the number of pandas has become smaller over the years.
 * 22) In what ways are the people of China trying to protect giant pandas?
 * 23) What does the word "rarest" mean in this sentence?
 * 24) __After Reading__
 * 25) What is the main purpose of this text?
 * 26) What did the author want to answer, explain, or describe? How do you know?