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Teacher's Guide for Curious Creatures Nonfiction ReaderPrepared by Mary E. Shea, Ph.D. Dr. Shea teaches graduate literacy courses and directs the Graduate Literacy Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.
Vocabulary for Eating Like a Bird
- The members of the club liked to congregate on the door at the end of the meetings, chatting and saying their good-byes.
- Like any swampy area, the marsh by my house was filled with cattails, fern, and many species of water birds.
Vocabulary for The Ocean's Cleaning Stations
- Mushrooms are a fungus type plant since they do not have leaves, flowers, or roots.
- The food that was not well chewed got stuck in the animal's gullet on its way from his mouth to his stomach.
- My dog takes pills to be sure he doesn't become infested with parasite type creatures living in his stomach or intestine.
- In a symbiotic relationship, each partner helps the other and receives something in return.
Vocabulary for Stormflight
- We could see from the black swarm that a colony of hornets had made a nest near the roof of our back porch.
- The children played on the mound of dirt left after the foundation was dug.
Vocabulary for A Mom With a Mission
- Certain sea creatures can be easily identified by the shape of appendages such as fins.
- As the snake began to molt, he slithered out of an old skin and left it in the desert sand.
- The owl is a predator who swoops down on field mice in the dark of night to catch himself a tasty meal.
Vocabulary for Lingering Leeches
- The doctor used an anesthetic before surgery to put the patient to sleep and eliminate his pain.
- Acting as an anticoagulant, the medicine lessened blood clotting.
- The doctors collected hirudin, an anticoagulant extracted from leeches.
- Dinosaurs are extinct creatures who no longer live on earth.
- Forest fires destroy the homes or habitats of a variety of living creatures.
- Germs lead to his throat infection and the medicine made it better.
- The dog ingested pieces of bark while chewing on the stick.
- The farmer dug irrigation channels to direct water to the fields of crops.
- That caterpillar is the larva of a monarch butterfly.
- After being treated unfairly, he had a legitimate reason to complain.
- The spider secretes a silken thread and weaves a magnificent web with it.
- Dad transplanted the bush to a location more suited to its need for sunlight.
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