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Written by Sarah O’Neil
The Right Tools for the Job
Text type: Explanation
Level: L (22)
Word count: 697
Content vocabulary
acid anteater/s ants beak beavers blood claws eyesight fangs flowers
giraffe gnaw grasshopper hovering hummingbird/s hyena/s insects leaves
nectar poison prey scavengers snouts spiders stomach sucking survive
teeth termites thorns tongue/s tool/s turkey vultures vampire bats
Uncommon phonics
either eyesight fruit gnaw prey through whole
The Right Tools for the Job
Curriculum link
• Science: Living things – animals: structure, and function
Key concepts
• Some animals eat food that is difficult to reach, collect, or get to.
• These animals have the right body parts to get the foods they need.
Possible reading strategy
• Reading and interpreting a summary chart
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Written by Sarah O’Neil
Contents
Introduction
5
Chapter 1:Animals that eat plants
6
Beavers
7
Giraffes
8
Hummingbirds 10
Chapter 2: Animals that eat meat 12
Vampire bats
13
Spiders
14
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Anteaters
Chapter 3: Animal scavengers
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Turkey vultures
Hyenas
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Chapter 4:The right tools for the job
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Conclusion24
Introduction
All animals need food to survive. Getting food is not always easy, but animals have the body parts they need to get food and to eat it.
They use these body parts as tools.
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Beavers
Chapter 1 Animals that eat plants
Beavers eat the bark from trees. They also eat grass and leaves. They have long, sharp front teeth that help them gnaw through the hard bark on small trees. As they gnaw through the bark, their teeth get worn down.
A beaver’s teeth never stop growing.
Many animals eat plants. Some eat leaves, others eat fruit and seeds. Some animals eat the wood and bark from plants.
But some plants can be hard to eat and hard to A beaver can cut
down more than 250 trees in
a year.
reach. The animals that eat them have the right body parts to help them.
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7
Giraffes
Giraffes eat leaves that grow on tall trees. These leaves are high above the ground. Giraffes have long necks that help them
reach these leaves.
Giraffes often eat leaves that have long,
sharp thorns. These thorns keep many
animals from eating the leaves.
Giraffes move their tongues around the thorns and eat the soft leaves without getting pricked
by the thorns.
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9
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds eat nectar from flowers. The nectar is in the center of a flower.
A hummingbird has a long, thin beak and a long, grooved tongue Hummingbirds are the only birds that can hover.
that it puts into a flower. The nectar sticks to its grooved tongue.
Hummingbirds beat their wings more
than 200 times per second. When they
beat their wings this fast, they can stay in the one place in the air without
falling. This is called hovering. Hummingbirds need to hover above flowers to get the nectar.
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Vampire bats
Chapter 2 Animals that eat meat
Vampire bats drink the blood of animals such as cows, pigs, horses, and birds. Vampire bats have sensors in their noses. The sensors help the bats find where the blood is closest to an animal’s skin. Vampire bats bite a small hole in the animal’s skin and then drink its blood.
Many animals catch and eat other animals. The animals they catch and eat are called prey.
Some animals are hard to catch and eat. Animals that hunt prey have the body parts they need to catch and eat their food.
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Spiders
Spiders eat insects and other small Spiders do not have teeth, so they animals. When a spider catches its prey, cannot bite or chew their food.
it uses its fangs to put poison into the animal. The poison either kills the animal or stops it from moving while the spider eats it.
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Spiders eat by sucking out the liquids in the bodies of the animals they catch. They do not eat the hard, outer shells.
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Anteaters
Anteaters cannot see very well but they have a very good sense of smell. Anteaters eat up to
20,000 ants
every day.
This helps them to find the ants and termites that they eat.
Anteaters use their strong front legs and long, sharp claws to break open
ant or termite nests.
When the nest is open, anteaters stick their long, thin snouts inside and lick up ants
or termites with their long, sticky tongues. Anteaters do not have teeth, so they swallow ants whole.
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Chapter 3 Animal scavengers
Turkey vultures
Turkey vultures are scavengers. They eat animals that have died, but they have to find them first. Turkey vultures have large wings. They use their wings to glide high above the ground looking for food. They also have good eyesight and a good sense of smell. This helps them find their food from the air.
Some animals are scavengers. Scavengers
are animals that eat food that is already
dead. They have the right body parts to find this food and to eat it.
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Turkey vultures are one of the few birds that have a good sense of smell.
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Hyenas
Hyenas are scavengers, too. They often Hyenas have a strong acid in their stomachs. eat animals that have died.
This means that they can eat every part Hyenas have very strong jaws and teeth. They use their teeth to break an animal’s of another animal including the skin, teeth, horns, and bones.
body into smaller pieces.
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Chapter 4 The right tools for the job
Animal
Food
Tools
Spider
insects
•
fangs with
poison
Vampire
bat
blood
•
sensors
sharp teeth
Anteater
ants, termites
Animals have the body parts they need to catch and eat food. These are the right tools for the job.
Animal
Food
Tools
Beaver
bark, leaves,
and grass
•
•
teeth
•
•
•
Giraffe
leaves
•
•
Hummingbird
nectar from flowers
•
•
•
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long neck
long tongue
long, thin beak
grooved
tongue
fast-beating
wings
Turkey
vulture
dead animals
•
•
•
Hyena
dead animals
•
•
sharp claws
long snout
sticky tongue
strong wings
g ood sense
of smell
good eyesight
strong jaws
and teeth
acid in its
stomach
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