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School-to-Home Support for Caregivers and Teachers

This book helps children grow by letting them practice reading. • What have I learned so far? I have learned that chameleons have
Here are a few guiding questions to help the reader build his or her bulging eyes that work separately from each other, they can look in
comprehension skills. Possible answers appear here in red. two different directions at once. I have learned that there are almost
11,000 species of reptiles living on Earth and they all breathe air.
Before Reading
• What do I think this book is about? I think this book is about creepy After Reading
reptiles. I think this book is about how reptiles survive.
• What details did I learn about this topic? I have learned that scientists
• What do I want to learn about this topic? I want to learn which put living things into six groups called kingdoms. I have learned that
reptiles are poisonous and where they live. I want to learn what is the reptiles are grouped together because they have dry, scaly skin, they
largest reptile and how much does it weigh. lay eggs on land, and they are cold-blooded.
• Read the book again and look for the glossary words. I see the word
During Reading cold-blooded on page 6, and the word venomous on page 14. The
• I wonder why... I wonder why Galápagos tortoises sleep up to 16 other glossary words are found on page 23.
hours a day. I wonder why the Mary River turtle can stay underwater
and breathe air with its butt.

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Crabtree Publishing Company Written by Alan Walker
www.crabtreebooks.com 1–800–387–7650 Print coordinator: Katherine Berti
Print book version produced jointly with Blue Door Education in 2022 Printed in the U.S.A./062021/CG20210401
Content produced and published by Blue Door Publishing LLC dba Blue Door Education, Melbourne Beach FL USA. Copyright Blue Door Publishing LLC.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying,
recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.
Photo credits:
Cover photo ©Shutterstock.com/Cezary Wojtkowsk, Page 4 images Sebastian Kaulitzki, dominique landau, Nicky Rhodes, Light & Magic Photography,
worldswildlifewonders, Page 6 ©Shutterstock.com/Agami Photo Agency, pages 8-9 ©Shutterstock.com/robdowner; pages 10-11 ©Shutterstock.com/
Meister Photos, pages 12-13 ©Shutterstock.com/Maridav, page 14 ©Shutterstock.com/Anna Kucherova, page 15 ©Shutterstock.com/Agami Photo
Agency, page 16 ©Shutterstock.com/Cheng Wei, page 17 ©Shutterstock.com/Matt Cornish, pages 18-9 illustration ©Shutterstock.com/Sergey Mikhaylov,
photo ©Shutterstock.com/Dennis W Donohue, pages 20 (leaf-tail gecko) and 22 ©Shutterstock.com/reptiles4all, page 20 coral snake ©Shutterstock.
com/Patrick K. Campbell, page 21 ©Shutterstock.com/Svoboda Pavel, page 22 ©Shutterstock.com/pittaya
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