Kindergarten Reading Paired Text Questions, Standards Alignment, Worksheets, Activities

Lessons & Units :: Where Do Polar Bears Live? Kindergarten Unit

Paired Text Questions: "Good Night" & Where Do Polar Bears Live?

Learning Goal: Integrate information from the book Where Do Polar Bears Live? and the non-fiction passage "Good Night" in order to discuss the topic of hibernation.
Duration: Approximately 15 minutes
Necessary Materials: Approximately 15 minutes

Questions 1 and 2 refer to the passage “Good Night.” Questions 3 and 4 refer to the book Where Do Polar Bears Live?. Questions 5 and 6 refer to both the passage and the book.
Student versions of the questions are in the 'Texts & Materials' tab.

Part 1: "Good Night"

Read the passage “Good Night” out loud to your students. Alternatively, students can read the passage independently or as a group.

Question 1: What does it mean for an animal to hibernate in the winter?

Sample student answer: It means that the animal goes into a long, deep sleep.

Question 2: Why do animals that hibernate eat a lot of food in the fall?

Sample student answer: They need to store fat in their bodies because they live off this fat when they hibernate.

Part 2: Where Do Polar Bears Live?

Question 3: Where do the mother polar bear and her cub stay during the long Arctic winter?

Sample student answer: They stay in a den.

Question 4: When do the mother polar bear and her cub leave the den?

Sample student answer: They leave the den in the spring.

Part 3: "Good Night" and Where Do Polar Bears Live?

Question 5: Animals hibernate during what time of the year?

Sample student answer: They hibernate in the winter.

Question 6: Why do some animals hibernate during the winter?

Sample student answer:

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