Making Connections in Nonfiction
This worksheet helps 4th-grade students practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections while reading nonfiction passages.
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Read the nonfiction passage carefully. Then, answer the questions by making connections to your own experiences (text-to-self), other books or articles you've read (text-to-text), or events and facts in the world (text-to-world).
The Amazing Monarch Butterfly Migration
Every autumn, millions of monarch butterflies embark on an incredible journey. They fly thousands of miles from Canada and the United States all the way to warmer climates in Mexico and California. This long trip is called migration. Monarchs are the only insects known to make such a long, two-way migration each year. They travel an average of 50 to 100 miles per day! It takes several generations of butterflies to complete the entire migration cycle. The butterflies born in late summer are a special 'super generation' that lives much longer than others, allowing them to make the long trip south. They overwinter in large colonies, clinging to fir trees in Mexico or eucalyptus trees in California, waiting for spring to begin their journey back north.
1. Have you ever traveled a long distance, like the monarch butterflies? Describe your trip and how it was similar to or different from the monarch's migration.
2. Have you read another book or article about animals that migrate? What animal was it, and what similarities or differences did you notice between its migration and the monarch's migration?
3. What challenges do you think monarchs might face during their long migration in the real world? How might environmental changes or human actions affect their journey?
4. The long journey that monarch butterflies make each year is called .
5. Monarch butterflies overwinter in large in Mexico and California.
6. Monarch butterflies are the only insects that migrate.
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False
7. What makes the 'super generation' of monarch butterflies special?
They are bigger than other monarchs.
They fly faster than other monarchs.
They live much longer than other monarchs.
They eat different plants than other monarchs.