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Strange AnimalsA Reading A–Z Level C Leveled Book

Word Count: 43

Writing and ArtWhich animal in the book looks the strangest to you?Draw a picture and write about it.

MathWhich animals in the book look the strangest to the students in your class?Make a class graph to show the information.

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Strange Animals

LEVELED BOOK • C

Written by Edie Evans

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What makes some animals strange?

Focus Question

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Strange Animals

Notes

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Photo Credits:Front cover: © David Haring/DUPC/Oxford Scientific/Getty Images; back cover (both): © iStock.com/GlobalP; title page: SCFotos - Stuart Crump Visuals/Alamy Stock Photo; page 3 (top): © OceanPhoto/FLPA/Minden Pictures; page 3 (bottom left): © Science Source; page 3 (bottom right): © Jean Paul Ferrero/ardea.com; page 4: © Christian Lukhaup/Barcroft/Barcroft Media/Getty Images; page 5: © Andrew G Wood/Science Source/Getty Images; page 6: © Piotr Naskrecki/Minden Pictures; page 7: © Dr. John D. Cunningham/Visuals Unlimited, Inc.; page 8: Steven Russell Smith/Alamy Stock Photo; page 9: © Eye of Science/Science Source; page 10 (top): © Nicholas Smythe/Science Source/Getty Images; page 10 (center): blickwinkel/Alamy Stock Photo; page 10 (bottom): © Doug Allan/NPL/Minden Pictures

Words to Know

animalsblue dragonliving

rosystrangewater bear

Strange AnimalsLevel C Leveled Book© Learning A–ZWritten by Edie Evans

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CorrelationLEVEL C

C3–43–4

Fountas & PinnellReading Recovery

DRA

Page Animalfront cover aye-aye

title page fried egg jellyfish

page 3 (top) red-lipped batfish

page 3 (bottom left) dumbo octopus

page 3 (bottom right) thorny dragon

page 10 (top) pink fairy armadillo

page 10 (middle) shark ray

page 10 (bottom) hooded seal

back cover kiwi

Notes

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3

Animals are living things.Some animals look strange.

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Do these animals look strange?

4

A panda ant looks strange.

9

A water bear looks strange.

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5

A blue dragon looks strange.

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A rosy moth looks strange.

6

A star spider looks strange.

7

A turtle frog looks strange.

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