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The temperature of an alligator’s nest determines if a baby alligator will hatch as a girl or a boy.
The wolf spidur is a caring mom. While most spiders wrap their eggs in a silken pouch and leaf them behind, this mom carries her egg sac on her back. She carry it everywhere she goes. If it fall off, the wolf spider mom puts it back on. And once her eggs hatch, she takes care of the little crawlers and let’s them ride on her back until they are reddy for life on their own. Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the article below and circle the six errors you find. Then rewrite the article correctly on the lines next to the article.
100°
90°
Less than 86°F: All girls
80°
86°F - 89°F: Both boys and girls
More than 90°F: All boys
ALLIGATOR PREDATORS OCTOPUS SURINAM CURIOUS DONKEY MOTHER
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
he mother Surinam toad cares for her eggs in one of the strangest ways. As the mother toad lays eggs, the male toad presses them one by one into the soft skin on the mother’s back. After a while, each egg sinks into a little pocket that forms on the mother’s back. Then a covering of skin grows over the pocket. The baby toads hatch and develop in these little
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U D M
O L N A C R E L H
I C A B N H L M A
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U E C O G S R M C
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pockets. A few weeks later, the mother rubs her back and the
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HATCH WAVES TOAD BABY BORN CAVE NEST SWIM
little toads swim free. What did the mother Surinam toad say to her kids? Unscramble the answer:
P S E U H
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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