Connect Reading and Writing

Vocabulary

  • biologists

  • experts

  • habitats

  • increase

  • poachers

  • shrink

  • thrive

  • wildlife

Critical Thinking

  • 1. SUM IT UP Make a card for each vocabulary word. Use at least five words to tell how experts help tigers.

    Illustration of three index cards, each with a vocabulary word on it

  • 2. Describe and Explain Tell a partner about the tools and steps that experts use to help animals like Olga.

  • 3. Make Judgments What has the most harmful effect on tigers and their habitat? Give reasons from the text.

  • 4. Compare What is the effect of shrinking habitat on Bengal tigers compared with Siberian tigers?

Reading Fluency

Phrasing Read the passage on page 647 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

  • 1. I read

    • a. great

    • b. OK

    • c. not very well

  • 2. What I did best in my reading was ____.

Reading Strategy

Visualize

What effect did using sensory images have on your reading? Tell a partner about two images you visualized.

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

______, scientists who study ______, including tigers, are worried. They want to save endangered animals and give them what they need to ______ so that the animal population will ______. The threats to animals include ______ who illegally hunt them. When people move into new areas, it can hurt the animals’ ______. ______ say that if such places ______, some animals will become extinct.

Written Review Imagine you are a biologist who protects tigers. Write a journal entry about one day’s work. Use five vocabulary words.

Illustration of the pen icon Write About the Guiding Question

Explore How People Help Animals

How can people everywhere help protect wildlife? Reread the selection to find information people should have. Explain which actions have a harmful or helpful effect.