PenguiPenguin Chickn ChickAuthor: Betty Tatham

Genre: Expository Nonfiction

Skill: Main Idea and Details

Author’s Purpose: To Inform

PowerPoint created by Michelle Harding – Fairhope Elementary

Words to Know

cuddlesflippersfrozen hatch

peckspreen snuggles

cuddleslies close and

comfortably; curls up

flippersbroad, flat body parts used for

swimming by seals and penguins

frozenhardened with

cold; turned to ice Grey Glacier is located in the Southern

Patagonian Ice Field in Chili. A glacier is a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface.

hatchto come out

of an egg

Green turtle hatching A young coral snake hatching

A  penguin baby hatching in a park in Harbin Polarland, China

pecksstrikes with a

beak

A King Penguin pecks a chick.

preento smooth or

clean with a beak

An abandoned endangered Cassowary

chick preens its feathers.

A King Penguin

preens its wing.

Marabou stork preening

snuggleslies closely and

comfortably together; nestles;

cuddles

Now, use your words in

sentences…

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

The new mother cuddlescuddles her infant as the winter breeze blows at the Christmas parade.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

The new mother cuddlescuddles her infant as the winter breeze blows at the Christmas parade.

All birds hatchhatch from eggs.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

All birds hatchhatch from eggs.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

A seal uses its flippersflippers to help it swim.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

A seal uses its flippersflippers to help it swim.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

A bird uses its beak to peckpeck through the egg when it is born.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

A bird uses its beak to peckpeck through the egg when it is born.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

The children went ice skating on the frozenfrozen lake.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

The children went ice skating on the frozenfrozen lake.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

Birds preenpreen in order to maintain their feathers and to keep themselves clean, warm, and dry.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

Birds preenpreen in order to maintain their feathers and to keep themselves clean, warm, and dry.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

Lily snugglessnuggles with her younger brother when they watch cartoons together.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

Lily snugglessnuggles with her younger brother when they watch cartoons together.

preen frozen snuggles pecks hatch flippers cuddles

GREAT JOB!