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Octopus Read Aloud (Gr. 5TestPrep)
Octopus Read Aloud (Gr. 5TestPrep)
© 2010 by Lucy Calkins and Kathleen Tolan, from Units of Study for Teaching Reading: A Curriculum for the Reading Workshop, Grades 3–5 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann). This page may be reproduced for classroom use only.
Wonderful Octopus
the octopus has one more trick up its between shapes and patterns. Some
sleeve. It can break off its arm, swim octopuses in tanks have been observed
away, and then grow a new one later. “playing” games. They throw objects into
The amazing octopus is also a circular currents in the water and then
predator. It hunts mainly at night. It catch them again. Research shows that
has a varied diet, including snails, fish, octopuses may have emotions, too.
turtles, small crustaceans, and even other Scientists believe that an octopus can
octopuses. An octopus catches its prey change color depending on how it is
by grabbing with its arms. To kill it, the feeling. An octopus is usually pale in
octopus bites it with its tough beak and color when it is relaxed. It becomes
injects it with a poison that paralyzes it. brightly colored when it is angry or scared.
Only one type of octopus, the Australian Of all of the animals in the sea, on
blue-ringed octopus, can kill a human land, or in the air, none is quite like
with its poison. the octopus.