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Author Vicky Shiotsu
lllustrotor Kelly McMohon
Toble of Conlents
Pog e Poge
A Woter Lover 2 A Storyteller from Long Ago . .16
A Thin Fellow 3 A Foble from Aesop 17
Two Kinds of Spiders 4 The Oldest Pointings r8
The Biggest Animol ( A Tole from Jopon l9
The Lorgest Bird . 6 The Moon 20
Beokix Potter 7 Woter for Plonts 21
Peter Robbit 8 Helpf ul Bees 22
Where Does the Moil Go? I Whot o Sneeze! ,a
Stors in the Sky l0 Tenific Teeth 24
Eorih's Closest Stor lt Kinds of Hoir 25
Cubs ot Ploy . . 12 Fish Eyes 26
A Comel's Hump I3 A Seohorse Dod 27
Busy Zookeepers. t4 Cloud Colors 28
Firefighters ot Work t5 Answer Key 29-32
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3. A duck rubs oil on these. o l. A bird's beok
5. The duck's body mokes this. 2. Not cold
6. Not wet 4. Very wet
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A Thin Fellow Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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3. Keep out of sight l. A wolking stick con be brown
4. A wolking stick is on _. or_.
6. A wolking stick does not hove 2. lt is lono ond
these. 5. lt looks like o
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Two Kinds of Spiders Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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l. When spiders see on insect _
I Spiders wolk the ground.
they wont to eot, they _ _.
it. 2 Some spiders spin
3. Spiders hove _
legs. 4 Some spiders for food.
5. Spiders use webs to _
insects.
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The Biggest Animol Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
The blue whole is the lorgest onimol. lt is even bigger thon the
dinosours of long ogo. The blue whole is huge. lt con grow up to
100 feet long. Thot is obout the size of o jet. The blue whole is so
big thot on elephont could stond inside its mouth.
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3. Animols thot lived long ogo l. Another word for biggest
4. A very big seo onimol 2. To get bigger or longer
6. A kind of plone 5. Very lorge
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The Lorgest Bird Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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l. An ostrich connot '1.
An ostrich con run
4. The is the lorgest bird. 2. An ostrich runs os fost os
5. An ostrich hos long, o
strong 3. An ostrich if it must fiqht.
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Beolrix Polter Nome
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2. Beotrix Potter's book '1.
Potter
Beotrix stories.
wos obout o robbit. 3. She wrote obout
5. She pictures. onimols.
6. Beotrix wrote mony oqo. _ 4. Children still- reoding
Beotrix Potter's books.
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Peler Robbit Nome-
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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Whot Peter ote 2. How Peter felt when he sow
5. How the mon felt when he the mon
sow Peter 3. Whot Peter did when the mon
5. Where Peter went to find sow him
something to eot 4. Who chosed Peter
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Where Does the Moil Go? Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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3. Where the moil is sorted (two l. Whot workers of o Post office
words) do with the moil
4. Whot is put on the moil to 2. lt corries the moil over lond.
show where someone lives 3. lt corries the moil in the oir.
5. A note you con write ond Put
in the moil
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Slors in the Sky Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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4. The time when it is not night '1.
The sun mokes the sky
5. stors ore olwoys in the 2. whot the sky does ot night
6. Stors ot night. 3. Whot the sun does of night
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i. Mony suns could fit _ one 2. Ihe sun is o _.
huge stor. 3. The sun is the closest stor
4. Mony stors ore thon the to
sun. 5. Stors ore bolls of glowing
6. The sun _ lorger thon the
other stors.
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cubs of PloY Nome-
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Full I . Cubs to fight.
3. Cubs try to their 2 . The mother lion her toil.
mother's toil. 4 . Boby lions
5. A ploce where lions live
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A Comel's Hump Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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2. A comel's hump weighs l. A comel needs the on its
thon o child. bock to live.
5. The comel's hump weighs o 3. A comel gets -from food.
lot becouse it is mode up 4. A comel moy not eot for
of _. monv
6. Without food, the comel's
hump
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Busy Zookeepers Nome-
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3. People who come to the zoo '1.
Porks where onimols ore kept
5. Zookeepers onimols. _ 2. Zookeepers help onimol
6. A treots onimols when homes.
they ore ill. 4. Vets sick onimols.
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Firefighters ol Work Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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1. Firefighters teoch obout 2 Firefiohters out out
fire _. 3 Fire sofety ore rules.
4. Peoole mov oet
in o fire. 5 Both people ond moy
6. Firefiohters schools. need help in o fire.
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A Storyteller from long Ago Nome-
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1. A short story 2. Fobles hove onimols thot
5. Aesop wos o Greek like people.
6. A storyteller nomed _ told 3. A foble teoches o _.
more thon lO0 fobles. 4. Aesop wos _, which
meons he wos born in Greece.
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A Foble from Aesop Nome
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2. The fox soid thot the crow wos l. The crow flew to the toP of
o fine o
3. Whot the crow sow 3. The one who got the cheese
5. The one who ote the cheese first
4. Whot the fox osked the crow
to do
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The Oldest Pointings Nome-
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
No one knows who mode the first pointings. The oldest pointings
people know obout ore thousonds of yeors old. They were done on
the wolls of coves. The points were mode from different colors of dirt.
The pointings show hunters ond wild onimols.
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2. The oldest pointings were l. The cove pointings show
done inside ond onimols.
4. The pointings of wild 2. The pointings were done in
show whot wos hunted long different of dirt.
ogo. 3. The cove pointings whoi
5. Long ogo, points were mode life wos like long ogo.
from _.
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A Tole from Jopon Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
An old womon went to the river. She sow o giont peoch in the
woter. She took it home to her husbond. All of o sudden, the peoch
split open. Out jumped o boby boyt The mon ond his wife were
hoppy.They nomed their new son "Peoch Boy."
When the boy grew up, he did mony
brove deeds.
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l. The peoch open. 2. The child wos nomed
4. She sow o Peoch. Boy.
6. She gove the Peoch to this 3. The boy did brove
person. 5. Not ofroid
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The Moon Nome-
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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l. The moon does not chonge 2. Different _ of the moon
get lit up.
3. The moon moy look like o 4. The moon hos no _ of its
big own.
5. The sun _ on the moon. 5. The moon is lit up by the
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Woler for Plonls Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
All plonts need woter to grow. A plont hos roots thot ore under
the ground. The roots toke in woter from the soil. Then,
the woter moves up the plont's stem to the
leoves. The leoves use the woter to moke
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1. Plonts grow in l. Woier moves up the plont's
4. Port of the plont thot mokes to the leoves.
food -. 2. A living thing thot is not on
5. Port of the plont thot tokes in onimol
woter 3. Whot o plont gets from the soil
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Helpful Bees Nome_
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
Flowers hove o job. Thot job is to moke seeds. To do this, they hove
tiny groins colled pollen. The pollen must be token from one flower to
onother. Bees help out. A bee londs on o flower to look for food. The
pollen then sticks to its body. When the bee flies to onother flower, it
tokes the pollen with it.
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4. Port of the plont thot mokes l. Smoll groins in o flower
seeds 2. Flying insects thot help flowers
5. Things thot grow into 3. Bees ore looking for this.
new plonts
6. Pollen groins ore _
in size.
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Whot o Sneeze! Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
Sometimes dust tickles the inside of your nose. You sneeze to get
rid of it. Air rushes out of your mouth. lt flies out of over 100 miles on
hourl But germs from your nose come out, too. They con moke
other people sick. Thot is why you must cover
your mouth when you sneeze.
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3. Dust con moke you _. l. Dust con get your nose.
5. You sneeze to get of _ 2. Your con moke other
dust. people sick.
6. Cover your _
when you 4. Sometimes _ tickles your
sneeze. nose.
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Terrific Teeth Nome
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1. Without ony teeth, your foce l. Teeth give _ to your foce.
would 2. To cut into food with the teeth
4. Whot you use to chew 3. To use teeth to eot
5. Teeth help you soy _ like
"think" or "slice."
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Kinds of Hoir Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
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Mony hoirs grow on o person's heod. Eoch hoir e e)
grows out of o tiny hole in the skin. The holes moy
be round or shoped like thin ovols. The shope of
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these holes is whot mokes hoir stroight or curly.
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grows out of ovol-shoped holes.
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3. Hoir thot grows from round l. Hoir thot grows from
holes ovol-shoped holes
5. The size of holes in your heod 2. Some hoirs grow from holes
6. The top port of your body _
thot look like ovols.
4. Hoirs grow out of these.
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Fish Eves Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
Fishneed to rest like oll onimols do. But when fish go to sleep, they
do not look osleep of oll. ln foct, they look wide owoke! Thot is be-
couse they hove no eyelids to close their eyes. Fish sleep with their
eyes open. They moy look owoke, but they do not see things when
they ore osleep.
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2. Whot you look like when your l. Whot fish connot moke their
eyes ore open eyes do
4. Fish sleep with their 2. Whot you look like when your
open. eyes ore closed
5. Fish hove no _. 3. Whot oll onimols need
to do
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A Seohorse Dod Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
A seohorse is o smoll fish. lts heod looks like o horse. The fother
seohorse hos o pouch. The mother seohorse ploces her eggs inside it.
Then. the fother seohorse corries the eggs for mony doys. When they
hotch, he pushes the bobies out of the pouch. He looks ofter them
until they con live on their own.
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l. The seohorse is o kind of _. l. The seohorse thot looks ofter
4. The ploce where the mother the bobies
seohorse ploces eggs 2. Whot the eggs in the pouch
5. Whot the fother seohorse must do
corries for mony doys 3. The seohorse's heod looks like
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CIoud Colors Nome
Use words from the story to complete the puzzle.
Some clouds ore white. Some ore groy or very dork. Do you
know why? Clouds ore mode of tiny drops of woter. Dork clouds
hold more woter thon white clouds. Thot meons they ore olso
thicker. They ore dork becouse the sun connot shine
through them.
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l. White or groy things in the sky 2. Some clouds ore very
3. Whot clouds ore mode of 3. Dork clouds hold more woter
4. The sun connot _ through thon _ clouds.
dork clouds 4. This shines in the sky.
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Answer Key
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