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Sea Otters: Ask and Answer

Read an article about sea otters, then ask and answer questions using the text as the source of every answer.

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Aligned toRI.3.1

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students answer questions about an informational text using details from the text.
Students tell which questions the text answers and which it does not.
Students match questions to the paragraph that answers them.

How to use

Have students read the article first, then answer. Remind them to go back to the paragraph named in each question and find the answer in the words on the page, not from memory.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.3.1

Ask and answer questions to show understanding of an informational text, using the text itself as the basis for the answers.

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Sea Otters: Ask and Answer

Use the text to answer questions about sea otters.

Read the article

Read the article about sea otters.

Sea Otters at Home in the Waves

1Sea otters live in the cold waters along the coast of the North Pacific Ocean. They spend almost their whole lives in the sea. They eat there, sleep there, and even raise their young there.

2Many sea animals stay warm with a thick layer of fat. Sea otters do not have one. Instead, they have very thick fur. The fur holds a layer of air close to the otter's skin, and the air keeps the cold water away. To keep their fur clean and fluffy, otters spend hours each day rubbing and licking it.

3Sea otters are clever eaters. They dive to the sea floor to find crabs, clams, and sea urchins. Then they float on their backs at the surface to eat. An otter may rest a flat rock on its belly and bang a clam against the rock until the shell cracks open.

4Sea otters sleep floating on their backs, too. An otter may wrap itself in kelp, a tall sea plant, so the waves cannot carry it away. A mother otter also carries her pup on her belly while she floats.

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