Grade 4 to State

Correlated Standards
GRaDe
4
• 150 fiction and nonfiction
passages
• 30 weekly units include:
–teacher lesson plan
EMC 3454 –5 reproducible
student pages
• Direct instruction of
reading strategies & skills
• Perfect for test prep
• Supports any reading
program

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I’ve talked to a lot of fi slimy hagfish a true mo nst er of the deep.
hagfish. Some call the
strangest fish of all is the .
but in an interesting way like an eel, but it
I think hagfish are gross bod y. It is long and slippery
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fi sh has fou r hearts and two brains
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The hagfish’s way of def r, the gla nds secrete
y. When danger is nea
nds run along the sid es of the hagfish’s bod ke it ver y sticky.
gla slime has fibers that ma
inary goo. A hagfish’s
slime. And this is no ord onds!
ketful of slime in just sec
The fish can ooze a buc o clo g the hagfish’s gills. So
a hagfish has
d we apo n, but it can als
The slime is a goo do
a knot! The hagfish can
e off its bod y. It doe s this by tying itself into y and
to work the slim scles push the knot dow
n its bod
stiff fins or bones. Its mu
this because it has no
squeeze off the slime. ls. Its body digests
living and dead anima
hag fi sh’s eat ing hab its are odd, too. It eats
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months between meals
hagfish can go seven
food very slowly. So a

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Read each question. Fill
SKILL PRACTICE about hagfish?
3. Which one states a fact
1. A hagfish can tie its body into a knot  It is the strange
st fish of all.
because . ng habits.
 It has odd eati
 its eyes are cov
ered with skin ss, but interesting.
 The fish is gro
it is covered in slime and slipper y.
Its body is lon g

n about hagfish?
2. Which one is an opinio

ver y sticky.
The slime of a hagfish is