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If you ever meat a gorilla, be sure to use gorilla manners. Just as when yo encounter any animal, you should dew certain things to make the gorilla fool safe around you: • When you first make eye contact with the gorilla, lowered your head and look away quickly. • Stay quiet. Don’t move two quickly. Loud noises and suddenly movements scare gorillas! • “Bow” to them. Made yourself shorter than the gorilla. • Showing your teeths can be seen as a threat to a gorilla, so if you smile, make sure you don’t show your teeth! Standards Link: Writing: Edit text to check for correct spelling and grammar. Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the articles below and correct the nine spelling errors you find. The first one is done for you. Gorilla Manners
Gorillas like to be around other gorillas, so they live in groups (sometimes called troops ), as a big gorilla family. A troop can include more than 30 gorillas. Can you imagine having 30 people in your family? A troop is led by one or more silverback gorillas. They decide where the troop will live, and when it will wake up, eat, and go back to bed. They also make sure that no troop member hurts another. Know anyone like that?
Gorillas are like people in a lot of ways. Use the code to find out a couple of ways they are similar to humans.
GORILLAS SADDLE ELEVATION TROOP PRIMATE VEGETATION WEIGH FINGERS TOES LAND SHAPE HAIR WAKE WHOLE MALE
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
N M
V J W
E A
G L P R I M A
E A E A C G
T N H V I R H A S
A D
T R O O P T I E E
I S
O S A L L I R O G
Gorillas have __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and
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E E P A H S N
T E P R K M O
S S
R E G N I F T
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ , just like us. Their __ __ __ __
16 9 24 7
11611 1 216 7
H O L E A T
look just like ours. They even have the
A D D L E
same number of __ __ __ __ __ as people—32.
W M S
1 16 16 1 8
T E
9 16 3
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A E F
21 8 14
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G H I
5 11 2
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M N O
4 24 7
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P R S
1 12 6
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T U W
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
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