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Reading Comprehension Plus Writing Grade 5

Week 1:

• How does a person become president of the United States?

• How do animals hide in plain sight?

• Who was the Wizard of Menlo Park?

Week 2: 

• What is it like on Venus?

• What was the Hindenburg?

• What is color blindness?

Week 3:

• When did women first vote?

• How do insects survive the winter?

• What is the Great Wall of China?

Week 4: 

• What is the largest flower in the world?

• What was the Pony Express?

• How do birds migrate?

Week 5: 

• Who was Thurgood Marshall?

• How do fingernails grow?

• Who made the first chewing gum?

Week 6:

• What is REM sleep?

• How do crash-test dummies save lives?

• How do mountains form?

Week 7:

• What is the only continent that humans have never lived on? 

• How do olives get their taste?

• Who led 300 slaves to freedom?

Week 8: 

• Does sound travel on the moon?

• What was the Trail of Tears?

• Is the roadrunner a real bird?

Week 9:

• Who were the cliff dwellers?

• What is manta ray?

• Who are The Ninety-nines?

Week 10:

• How was Crater Lake formed?

• Who is Chinua Achebe?

• What are marsupials?

Week 11:

• What is bluegrass music?

• What are puffballs?

• Who is I.M. Pei?

Week 12: 

• What is an ani?

• Who was “The Yellow Kid”?

• How does a Snake move?

Week 13: 

• Who was Otzi the Iceman?

• What was a quagga?

• How did dogs save Nome, Alaska?

Week 14:

• How are porcupines born and raised?

• What did Thor Heyerdahl prove?

• How tough are badgers?

Week 15: 

• Where do new words come from?

• What do hurricane hunters do?

• What is Death Valley?

• What are “smart” buildings?