A Frog's Life.pdf

Suggested levels for Guided Reading, DRA, Lexile, ® and Reading Recovery are providedin the Pearson Scott Foresman Leveling Guide.Life Scienceby Bonita FerraroGenreExpositorynonfictionComprehensionSkills and Strategy• Compare andContrast• Sequence• Graphic OrganizersText Features• Diagram• LabelsScott Foresman Reading Street 2.4.3ì

Reader Response1. Compare the frog on page 10 with thetadpole on page 8. What has changed?by Bonita FerraroWhat has stayed the same?2. Use words and drawings on a chartlike the one below to describe how atadpole changes as it grows.TadpoleFrogletFrog3. The word shed has more than onemeaning. What is the meaning of theword shed on page 9? What else doesthe word shed mean?4. Look at the diagram of a frog’s life onpage 12. How does this diagram helpyou understand a frog’s life cycle?Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New YorkSales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, IllinoisCoppell, Texas • Ontario, California • Mesa, Arizona

A mother frog lays her eggs in thepond. She kicks her powerful backlegs and leaps away. Soon somethingwonderful will happen.Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit forphotographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges tocorrect errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman,a division of Pearson Education.Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R),Background (Bkgd)Opener: (C) Frank Greenway/DK Images, (B) DK Images; 1 Digital Vision; 3 (C) ©ImageSource Limited, (B) DK Images; 4 DK Images; 5 DK Images; 6 Frank Greenaway/DKImages; 8 DK Images; 10 DK Images; 12 DK ImagesISBN: 0-328-13283-7Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc.All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication isprotected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisherprior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmissionin any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, orlikewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department,Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V010 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 053

The tiny frog eggs have no shell.They are covered with clear jelly. Thefrog eggs stick together in big clumps.Inside each egg is the beginning of afrog. The black dot is a tadpole growing.The tadpoles change as they grow.Something wonderful begins to happen.Frog eggsTadpoles45

The new tadpoles hatch from theireggs. They look like little fish. Thetadpoles have gills like fish to help thembreathe under water. The tadpoles eattiny water plants.Now hind legs grow. After a whilethe tadpole grows lungs. Lungs let thetadpole breathe air too . Somethingwonderful is happening.Hind legsGills67

Now the tadpole changes again.Front legs come out, one at a time. Itseyes grow larger. Its mouth grows wider.Now it looks like a frog with a tail.The tadpole’s tail goes away. Thenit crawls out of the water. The tadpoleis a froglet. The froglet has shed itstadpole skin. Something wonderful hashappened.Front legsFroglet89

The tadpole has become a frog. Itcan live on land or in the water. Thefrog uses its long, sticky tongue to eatinsects.One day the frog will lay eggs in thepond. Inside each egg a tadpole willchange and grow. Something wonderfulwill happen all over again.FrogSticky tongue10 11

Follow the diagram. The frog laysthe eggs. What happens next? Whathappens last?Reader Response1. Compare the frog on page 10 with thetadpole on page 8. What has changed?What has stayed the same?2. Use words and drawings on a chartlike the one below to describe how atadpole changes as it grows.TadpoleFrogletFrogA Frog’sLife3. The word shed has more than onemeaning. What is the meaning of theword shed on page 9? What else doesthe word shed mean?4. Look at the diagram of a frog’s life onpage 12. How does this diagram helpyou understand a frog’s life cycle?12