Nonfiction

Animal
Families
by Deborah November

PAIRED
Tadpoles
Xxxx Xxxinto Frogs
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 STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Vocabulary
Strategy: Reread adult, alive, covered, fur,
Skill: Main Topic and giant, groom, mammal,
Key Details offspring

Phonics Content Standards

Consonant Digraphs Science
ch, tch, sh, ph, th, wh, ng Life Science

Vocabulary Strategy
Multiple-Meaning Words Word count: 273**

Photography Credit: Cover (inset) Brand X Pictures/PunchStock/Getty Images, Tom Brakefield/Brand X

Pictures/Getty Images.
**The total word count is based on words in the running text and headings only. Numerals and words
in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.

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Essential Question
How are offspring like their
parents?

Animal
Families
by Deborah November
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Tadpoles into Frogs . . . . . . . . .17
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Animals take good care of
their babies.

Baby Deer
Deer mothers have one to
three babies.

Tom Brakefield/CORBIS

Deer mothers feed their

babies for two months.

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 Baby deer can walk soon
after they are born.

A deer is a mammal like

you. Mammals do not come
from eggs.
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Young deer are called
offspring. They have spots.

Boy deer grow antlers.

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Girl deer do not grow antlers.

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 Antlers have more points on them
if the deer has good food to eat.

The deer becomes an adult.

His antlers usually get bigger.
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STOP AND CHECK

What do boy deer grow,

but not girl deer?
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Kangaroos
Baby kangaroos grow to
be very big. The giant red
kangaroo is the biggest one.

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Kangaroos are only about the size

of a grape when they are born.

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 Kangaroos are a kind of mammal.

A baby kangaroo is also

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called a joey. It lives in its

mother’s pouch.

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Kangaroos cannot walk like
you can. They hop instead.
They are very good at
hopping!

Kangaroos hop on their back feet.

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 Koalas sleep most of the day.

Koalas
Koalas live in their mothers’
pouches, too. When they
grow up, they are covered
with fur. Koalas have paws.
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They use their paws to

groom or clean up.

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 Penguins
A mother penguin lays her
egg. She goes to find food.
The father watches the egg.

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The father penguin keeps

the egg warm by his feet.

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 Penguins know when their
baby is calling them.

The father stays close by. He

has nothing to eat. The baby
penguin comes out of the
egg. The mother comes back.
Now the father can go eat.
STOP AND CHECK

What does the mother

penguin do after she lays
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her egg?
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 Alligators
Alligators lay eggs, too. The
mother watches the eggs in
her nest. The eggs hatch.

The babies make noises

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before they come out.

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 The alligator is a good mother.

The mother protects her

babies. She cares for them.
She helps them stay alive.
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 These babies can grow one

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foot every year. Think how
big you would be if you
were an alligator!

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Animal mothers and fathers
take very good care of their
babies. They are family.

Alligators are good swimmers.

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 Summarize
Use the chart to Main Topic
Detail Detail Detail
summarize Animal
Families.

Text Evidence
1. Is Animal Families true? Genre

2. What does a boy deer grow?

Main Topic and Key Details

3. What word on page 9 can

mean a man who is getting
married? Multiple-Meaning Words
4. Write about what father
penguins do. Write About Reading
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eggs.
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Frogs begin as
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they become frogs.

Tadpoles
into Frogs
Read about baby tadpoles and how

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fish.

legs.
is born.

breathe.
Tadpoles
look like

a mouth,
When the

They grow
and gills to
have a tail,
the tadpole
egg hatches,

These babies

tail

gills
mouth
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away.
tail goes

the water.

Essential Question
The tadpole

hops out of
is a frog! He
The tadpole’s

parents? Text to Text

Make Connections
How are tadpoles like frogs?

How are baby animals like their

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 Purpose To find out how baby
animals are like their parents

What to Do
Step 1 With a partner, choose one
animal from this book.
Step 2 Draw a picture of the
animal as a baby.
Step 3 Then draw the animal when
it is grown up.

Conclusion Talk about how the

baby is different from the adult.

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 Literature Circles

Nonfiction

The Topic
What is Animal Families mostly about?

Vocabulary
What new words did you learn in
Animal Families?
What clues helped you understand
these words?

Conclusions
What did you learn about how baby
animals grow?
Which animal did you like the best?