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Seahorses Side by Side: Two Texts

Two original seahorse texts: students find the main point of each and compare the key details they share and those only one text gives.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.3.9

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

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What students practice

Students state the most important point of each of two texts about seahorses.
Students tell which key details appear in both texts and which appear in only one.

How to use

Read both texts aloud or in pairs, then have students fill in the comparison questions on their own and share their open responses.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.3.9

Compare and contrast the most important points and key details in two texts on the same topic.

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Seahorses Side by Side: Two Texts

Compare what two texts teach about seahorses.

Read the two texts

Read Text 1 and Text 2. Both are about seahorses.

Text 1: The Slow Swimmer

1A seahorse has a head shaped a bit like a horse's head, but it is really a fish. Many seahorses live in shallow ocean water near seagrass and coral.

2Seahorses swim standing up. A small fin on the back flutters very fast to push the seahorse through the water. Even so, a seahorse is a slow swimmer.

3Because it is slow, a seahorse needs a way to stay in one place. It wraps its curly tail around a blade of seagrass and holds on tight. Then the moving water cannot carry it away.

4Holding on also helps a seahorse catch food. When tiny shrimp-like animals drift close, it sucks them up through its long snout.

Text 2: Seahorse Fathers

1Seahorses have a surprise. In seahorse families, it is the father, not the mother, who carries the eggs.

2A male seahorse has a pouch on the front of his belly. The female puts her eggs into his pouch. The father carries the eggs there for a few weeks while the babies grow.

3When the babies are ready, the father pushes them out of the pouch. The babies are tiny, but they look like small copies of their parents.

4The babies swim off on their own right away. Like their parents, they hold on to seagrass with their curly tails and suck up tiny food through their snouts.

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