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Reading Skill: Classifying and Categorizing






      Complete the table based on Charlie’s imagination.



                                         Comparing Dinosaurs with Animals Living Today



                     Dinosaurs                                               Animals of Today                                                          Functions






             with a long neck                                                            giraffe                                          eat leaves from trees




         with plates of armor                                                         armadillo                                                    protect itself





                       bird-like                                                         ostrich                                                Classifying is placing similar things
                                                                                                                                                into groups or categories. When you
                                                                                                                                                classify things, you put them into
                                                                                                                                                groups that are related or have
                   with a horn                                                       rhinoceros                                                 something in common. When you
                                                                                                                                                categorize things, you give each
                                                                                                                                                group a name based on how the
                                                                                                                                                things in it are alike.
                          ostrich                                 rhinoceros                                        protect itself


                          giraffe                                 armadillo                                         eat leaves from trees




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