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Animall Babies

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Nonfiction • Animal Names • Labels in • Baby Animal

• Baby Animals Pictures Names
• Observing • Patterned
Animals Text

Scott Foresman Reading Street 1.1.4

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ISBN 0-328-14100-3

by Donna Platt
Talk About It
1. Tell about some of the baby animals you
saw in this book.

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2. How do the animal mothers take care of
their babies?
by Donna Platt
Write About It
3. On a sheet of paper, draw a picture of your
favorite baby animal. Write its name.

Extend Language
A baby cow is a calf. Baby ducks are called
ducklings. What can you call other kinds of
baby animals?

Photographs
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher
deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Cover ©Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc.; 1 ©Getty Images; 2 ©NGS Images/Getty

Images; 3 ©Peter Lilja/Getty Images; 4 ©George D. Lepp/Corbis; 5 ©Jane Burton/
DK Images; 6 ©Getty Images; 7 ©Bruce Coleman, Inc.; 8 (TL) ©Renee Lynn/Photo
Researchers, Inc., (TR) ©Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc., (C) ©Stefan Myers/Animals
Animals/Earth Scenes.

ISBN: 0-328-14100-3

Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.

All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.

This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the
publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission
in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise.
For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman,
1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
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 dog
cow

calf

puppy

Baby animals have mothers too. The mother cow is with her calf.
The mothers take care of the babies. The cow is eating with her calf.

2 3
 cat

ducklings duck

kittens

The mother duck is swimming in the pond. The mother cat cleans her kitten.
Her ducklings are swimming behind her. She licks her kitten’s fur clean.

4 5
 bird fox
worm kit

chicks

The mother bird feeds her chicks. The mother fox stays with her kit.
The chicks eat the worm. The kit is safe.

6 7
 Talk About It
1. Tell about some of the baby animals you
saw in this book.
2. How do the animal mothers take care of
their babies?

Write About It
3. On a sheet of paper, draw a picture of your
favorite baby animal. Write its name.

Extend Language
A baby cow is a calf. Baby ducks are called
ducklings. What can you call other kinds of
baby animals?

Photographs
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher
deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Cover ©Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc.; 1 ©Getty Images; 2 ©NGS Images/Getty

Images; 3 ©Peter Lilja/Getty Images; 4 ©George D. Lepp/Corbis; 5 ©Jane Burton/
DK Images; 6 ©Getty Images; 7 ©Bruce Coleman, Inc.; 8 (TL) ©Renee Lynn/Photo
Researchers, Inc., (TR) ©Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc., (C) ©Stefan Myers/Animals
Animals/Earth Scenes.

ISBN: 0-328-14100-3

What other things can mother animals Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.

do with their babies? All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.

This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the
publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission
in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise.
For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman,
1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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