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Photo Credits: Cover: Randy Wells/Corbis; 2 (c) Johnny Johnson/Photographers Choice/Getty Images; 3 (tl) Winifred Wisniewski; Frank Lane Picture Agency/Corbis, (tr) China Span/Animals Animals Earth Scenes, (br) W. Perry Conway/Corbis; 4 (bc) Kristian Cabanis/Age Fotostock, (c) Kristian Cabanis/Age Fotostock; 5 (t) David Tipling/Nature Picture Library, (b) Tom Brakefield/Corbis; 6 (c) Robert Lubeck/Animals Animals Earth Scenes; 7 (t) Marian Bacon/Animals Animals Earth Scenes, (b) Santiago Fernandez/Age Fotostock; 8 (c) Avi Klapfer/SeaPics.com; 9 (t) Gary Vestal/Getty Images, (b) IFA/eStock Photo/PictureQuest; 10 (br) John Mitchell/Photo Researchers, Inc., (tr) John Mitchell/Photo Researchers, Inc., (bl) Gregory K. Scott/Photo Researchers, Inc., (bl) Gary Meszaros/Photo Researchers, Inc.; 11 (cr) Daniel Dempster Photography/Alamy, (c) Kim Karpeles/Alamy, (cl) Papilio/Alamy, (bc) Joel Sartore/Getty Images, (cr) Mike Briner/Alamy, (tc) Stocksearch/Alamy.

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All About Animals

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All animals are living things.Rocks and water are nonliving things.

Animals Are Living Things

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3Animals need food and water.Most animals need shelter.

What AnimalsNeed

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4All animals need air. Lungs help some animals breathe air.Fish use gills to take in air.

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5Mammals have hair or fur.They give birth to live young.

Mammals

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6Birds have feathers and wings.Young birds hatch from eggs.

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7Reptiles have scaly, dry skin.Amphibians have smooth, wet skin.

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8Fish

Fish live in water.Most fish have scales.

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Insects have six legs.They have three body parts.

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Insects

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Life Cycle of a Frog

A frog's life cycle begins with an egg.A tadpole grows from the egg.

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A larva grows from an egg.It becomes a pupa, then a butterfly.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly

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Vocabularyliving, p. 2nonliving, p. 2shelter, p. 3gills, p. 4lungs, p. 4mammals, p. 5birds, p. 6reptiles, p. 7amphibians, p. 7fish, p. 8insects, p. 9life cycle, p. 10tadpole, p. 10larva, p. 11pupa, p. 11

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School-Home Connection

Tell a family member what you have read about different kinds of animals. Talk with the family member about the kinds of animals that live in your area.

Hands-On Activity

1. Use clay to make a model of a young animal.

2. Make two more models to show how the animal grows and changes.

Think About the Reading

1. What questions do you have about animals?

2. How can you find the answers to these questions?

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GRADE 1

Book 1

WORD COUNT

100

GENRE

Expository Non ction

LEVEL

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