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Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Children will discover how an animal rescuer learned to help baby wombats survive.
Reading Level:
Lexile: 490L; GRL: L
Next Generation Science Standards:
Process 3: Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Vocabulary:
animal shelter, Covid-19, survive, attack, pouches, marsupials
Use these questions to check students’ understanding and stimulate discussion:
1. Why didn’t Emily take the baby wombats to her animal shelter? (She could not travel to the shelter because of Covid-19.)
2. What did Emily feed the baby wombats? (dirt, grass, and wombat milk)
3. How did Emily help the baby wombats feel safe? (She sewed them a pouch.)
4. Would you like to keep a baby wombat in your home? Why? (Answers will vary.)
Go online to print or project the Reading Checkpoint.
Materials: baby pictures; chart paper, pencils, copies of the skill sheet
Overview: Children just read about what baby wombats need to survive. Now they will explore what human babies need.
Directions: