Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
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Before you dive into a book, take a look at the TABLE OF CONTENTS.
What’s that? It’s a list of the chapters in a book. It may give you a hint 3Check It!
about what’s inside
Page 1
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1. 5
Now, FILL IN the blanks using information from the table of contents. Pages 4–5
1. How many chapters does this book have? Sneak Peak!
1. chapter 4
2. 8 pages
2. Which chapter might tell you if Ben Franklin invented 3.
4.
chapter 2
chapter 3
5. pages 56–59
6. chapter 5
electricity? 7. Suggestion: Saving the habitat
of big cats, or helping stray cats
8. Suggestion: A list of books and
3. Which page does chapter four start on? Web sites about cats
See how much you can learn from the table of contents?
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Say you’re going to read this book:
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Pages 6–7
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1. plants, mammals, fish, coral reefs
2. at the bottom of the sea (or
chapter 9)
3. chapter 1
4. chapters 10, 11, 13, 14, 16
Suggestions:
5. What creatures can live at the
bottom of the sea?
6. How deep into the ocean can
humans travel?
7. What is the effect of global
warming on the Arctic Ocean?
8. How many oceans are there in the
world?
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Now, FILL IN the blanks using information from the table of contents.
5. Which chapter might talk about the oldest joke ever told?
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Say you’re going to read this book:
1
Now, FILL IN the blanks using information from the table of contents.
3. Which chapter might tell you how many bones a tiger has?
5. Which pages might tell you about how to treat fleas on your cat?
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Say you’re going to read this book:
The Deep
Blue Sea
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Now, FILL IN the blanks using information from the table of contents.
4. Which chapters might deal with the effect of humans on the oceans?
Don’t forget, the table of contents is just a clue to all the information in the book. WRITE four more
questions that this book might answer that the table of contents can’t.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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Say you’re going to read this book:
Inside
NASCAR
WRITE three questions that this book might answer that the table of contents can’t.
1.
2.
3.
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Cut out the Check It! section on page 1, and see if you got the answers right.
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