Teacher's Guide for SPIDER ^®

October 2005

Teacher's Guide prepared by: Mary E. Shea. Dr. Shea teaches graduate literacy courses and directs the Graduate Literacy Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.

Anticipation

Before reading:

You might already know some things about fungi. Before you read the article """Fungi, Fungi, Everywhere!""" read the following statements. Place a check under Agree if you think the statement is true. Place a check under Disagree if you think the statement is not true. Be prepared to explain how you know (e.g. you heard it somewhere, you heard it from someone, you read it before, you saw it in a movie or on TV) or why you think so. 

After reading the article we""'ll go through the statements again and see if we""'ve found evidence that proves we were right or evidence to change our minds.

Agree or Disagree 

1.) ______ ______ 1.) Fungi are only found growing on the ground or

on plants.

2.) ______ ______ 2.) Fungi can feed you, cure you, or make you sick.

3.) ______ ______ 3.) You can only see fungi with a microscope.

4.)______ ______ 4.) The spores of fungi can travel thousands of

miles.

5.) ______ ______ 5.) Few fungi are found in our backyards.

6.) ______ ______ 6.) Fungi make their own food like green plants.

7.) ______ ______ 7.) Fungi produce chemicals used for medicine.

8.) ______ ______ 8.) Fungi produce poisons.

9.) ______ ______ 9.) Scientists guess that there are about 1.5 million

kinds of fungi.

10.)______ ______ 10.) Scientists have studied most kinds of fungi

After reading:

Write three interesting facts you learned from this article.

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