v Oxford Read and Discover

Rachel BLadon

Introduction 3
1 Babies 4
2 Parents 6
3 Help 8
4 Danger 10
5 Food 12
6 Homes 14
7 How Animals Learn 16
8 How Animals Grow Up 18
Activities 20
Project 28
Picture Dictionary 30
About Read and Discover 32

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 Introduction
Young animals grow up from babies
into adults. Some young animals
grow up very fast. Some young
animals grow up slowly.

W hat are these young animals?

W hat young animals do you like?

Now read and discover more

about young animals!

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Some babies hatch from an egg.

A m other duck makes a nest by the

water. She lays her eggs in the nest.
She sits on the eggs so they stay
warm. T hen the ducklings hatch.
Some babies don’t hatch from
an egg.They are born from
their mother.

A baby zebra is born from its

mother. The mother cleans the baby
and then it can stand up and walk.
It can run when it’s one hour old!

A Zebra and Its Baby

stripes

A baby zebra has brown

and white stripes.

Go to page 20 for activities

 Parents
M any young animals look the same
as their parents. Look at these baby
seahorses and their parent.

Some young animals look very

different from their parents. A
caterpillar is a butterfly’s baby.

A Caterpillar

parent

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Some young animals live with
their parents for weeks. Some young
animals live with their parents for
years. Parents feed and protect
their babies.

Some young animals don’t meet

their parents! A mother sea turtle
lays her eggs in the sand. T hen she
goes into the ocean. Baby sea
turtles hatch from the eggs. They
don’t meet their mother.
 Help
M any adult animals help young
animals.

A young elephant lives with its

m other and other elephants. The
mother feeds the young elephant.
She cleans it, and she gives it
water. Adult elephants protect
the young elephant. They help
it to walk, too!

Elephants

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A mother chimpanzee carries her
babies everywhere.

|l A young ostrich
lives with its
mother and
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father. They help
it to feed. They
also protect it
from the rain and
the hot sun with
» **

their wings.
m

+ Go to page 22 for activities.

 Danger

H H M M i

T here’s danger for young animals.

Other anim als w ant to eat them.
How do young animals stay safe?

Young kangaroos live in their

m other’s pouch. It’s safe there.

Baby kangaroos are very

Little. You can put a baby
kangaroo on a spoon!

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This young shark has spots. Other
animals can ’t see the shark on the
ocean floor.

This caterpillar has poison in its body.

Other animals touch the caterpillar,
and poison goes into them.
Some young animals drink milk
from their mother. The milk is good
and it helps them to grow. A young
seal drinks its m other’s milk.

A young seal can grow from

10 kilograms to 30 kilograms
in three weeks!
A young owl doesn’t drink milk. Its
parents feed it frogs, fish, and other
little animals.

A toad eats insects and other little

animals. A baby toad is very different.
A baby toad is called a tadpole and
it eats plants.

Go to page 24 for activities.

Young bears are born when the
weather is very cold. The mother
makes a home called a den. She
puts branches and grass in an old
tree or under a rock. The young
bears are w arm in the den, and
they’re safe from other animals.
Beavers make a home called a lodge.
They cut down trees and branches,
and they make a dam in a river. The
beavers make a lodge in the water,
with branches and mud. A young
beaver is safe in the lodge.

beaver

Go to page 25 for activities

I How Animals
Learn
Young animals learn m any things.
A young eagle learns to fly when
it’s about ten weeks old. The parents
help the young eagle to fly.
 Cheetahs

Young cheetahs watch their

mother hunt. This helps them to
learn to hunt. The mother cheetah
gives little animals to her young
cheetahs, too. The young cheetahs
learn how to hunt and eat the
little animals.

P ^ e jjp A cheetah can run more

than 100 kilometers per
hour. That’s very, very fast!

^ Go to page 26 for activities.

 How Animals
Grow Up
A young lion lives with its mother
and other lions in a pride. W hen it’s
about two years old, a young male
lion moves to a different pride.
A young beetle
is called a larva.
The larva looks
very different
from its parents.
It grows a pupa.
When it comes
out of the pupa,
it’s an adult. Then
it looks the same
as its parents.

Young animals grow up into adults

and have babies. Their babies have
babies, too. Every day, young
animals are born!
^ Go to page 27 for activities.
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5 5 Babies
Read pages 4-5.

1 Complete the sentences. Then write

the numbers.
eggs nest hatch warm

1 A duck makes a nest

2 A duck lags her in a nest.
3 A duck sits on her eggs so theg s t a g _
4 DuckLings__________ in a nest.

2 Circle the correct words.

1 A zebra hatches / doesn’t hatch from an egg.
2 A babg zebra has black / brown and
white stripes.
3 A babg zebra can run when it’s one minute /
hour oLd.
 Parents
+ Read pages 6-7.
caterpillar sea tu rtle
seahorse butterfly
1 Write the words.

sea turtle

2 Write true or false.

1 A baby seahorse looks the same
as its parents.
2 A caterpillar looks the same
as its parents.
3 Some animals live with their
parents for weeks.
4 A mother sea turtle lays her eggs
in the ocean.

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CD Help
4* Read pages 8-9.

1 Match.

1 It Lives with its mother

and other adults.
an ostrich
2 Its parents protect
an elephant
it with their wings.
a chimpanzee
3 Its mother carries
it everywhere.

2 Answer the questions.

1 Who feeds a young elephant?
A mother elephant feeds a young

2 Who helps a young elephant to walk?

3 Who carries a baby chimpanzee?

4 Who Lives with a young ostrich?

 Danger
4r Read pages 10-11.
1 Complete the puzzle. Then
find the secret word.
I-*- S 0 t s
2+

4 ->-

6 ->-

The secret word is:

2 Circle the correct words.

1 Some animals live / eat young animals.
2 Young kangaroos / caterpillars live in their
mother’s pouch.
3 You can put a baby sh a rk /k an g aro o
on a spoon.
4 Some caterpillars have poison / sharks
in their body.
 Food
^ Read pages 12-13.
tadpole seal
owl toad
1 Write the words.

2 Write true ox false.

1 Some young animals drink
milk from their mother.
2 A young seal can grow from
10 kilograms to 30 kilograms
in three days.
3 A young owl drinks its mother’s milk.
4 A tadpole eats insects and other
little animals.
 Homes
Read pages 14-15.

1 Find and write the words.

2 Complete the sentences.

mud den dam lodge

1 A mother bear makes a home called a _

2 Beavers make a home caLled a ________
3 Beavers make a __________in a river.
4 Beavers make their home with branches
and
w How Animals Learn
Read pages 16-17.

1 Write the words.

fly run eat hunt

2 Match.
Learns to fly when it’s
1 Young cheetahs about ten weeks old.
2 A mother cheetah gives Little animals
to her young cheetahs.
3 A young eagle
watch their mother
hunt.

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How Animals Grow Up
Read pages 18-19.

1 Write the words. Then match.

1 noU
lio n

2 vraaL

3 uapp

4 e ^e Le t

2 Complete the sentences.

Larva aduLt pride pupa

1 A young lion lives in a __________ .

2 A young beetle is called a __________ .
3 A larva grows a __________ .
4 When a larva comes out of a pupa it’s an
 Young Animals
1 Choose a young animal. Answer the
questions.

Young a n im a l:_________________________

Does it hatch from an egg? j jYes No

Does it Look the same

0Y es 0 N o
as its parents?

Does it live with its parents? Yes No

How does it stay safe? __________________

What does it e a t ? ______________________

Where does it live?_____________________

How does it Learn?

2 Draw or find a picture of a young animal.
Then complete the sentences.

This is a ____________________ .
It looks______________
I t ____________________ from an egg.
It with its parents.
To stay safe, i t ___________________
It e a t s ____________________
It lives____________________________
To learn, i t ___________________________
Picture Dictionary

ad u lt anim als born branches

clean cut down danger different

grass

grow up hatch hour hunt

insects male

ocean parents

poison protect

same slowly warm

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S ubject
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Le vel & Technology World & Social Studies

• Eyes • At the Beach • Art

• Fruit • In the Sky • Schools
300 • Trees • Wild Cats
headwords • Wheels • Young Animals

• Electricity • Camouflage • Cities

• Plastic • Earth • Jobs
450 • Sunny and Rainy • Farms
headwords • Your Body • In the Mountains

• How We Make Products Amazing Minibeasts • Festivals Around

• Sound and Music Animals in the Air the World
• Super Structures • Life in Rainforests • Free Time Around
600
• Your Five Senses • Wonderful Water the World
headwords

• All About Plants • All About Desert Life • Animals in Art

• How to Stay Healthy • All About Ocean Life • Wonders of the Past
750 • Machines Then and Now • Animals at Night
headwords • Why We Recycle • Incredible Earth

Materials to Products • All About Islands Homes Around

• Medicine Then and Now Animal Life Cycles the World
Transportation Then Exploring Our World • Our World in Art
900
headwords and Now Great Migrations
• Wild Weather

• Cells and Microbes • All About Space • Food Around

• Clothes Then and Now • Caring for Our Planet the World
• Incredible Energy • Earth Then and Now • Helping Around
1,050
• Your Amazing Body • Wonderful Ecosystems the World
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Page 12 10 kilograms 22 pounds

30 kilograms 66 pounds
v Page 17 100 kilometers 62 miles
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