1. My Dolphin Encounter
How do you think Joan Bourque feels about dolphins? What clues do you get from the story?
How do you know the dolphin feels comfortable around people?
What part of this story did you find the most interesting?
Put yourself in the narrator’s place. Describe how you think you would feel if you saw a dolphin in the water.

2. Question of the Day Day 1: Why is a picture worth a thousand words?
Day 2: What wild animal do you think would be hardest to photograph in its natural environment? Why?
Day 3: The author of “Wild Shots” makes a living doing something she loves. What do you love that you would like to turn into a job someday?

3. Question of the Day
Day 4: Here’s a homophone riddle: What do you call a bucket that looks sick?
Day 5: Volcanoes formed the Galapagos Islands. What other natural forces can change the shape of the land?

4. Vocabulary curious: full of questions collapsed: fell
marine: found in the sea

5. Vocabulary
delicate: easily broken
creature: animal
survived: lived