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Octopus

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 1,2,3,4,5

Capture your animal lover's attention with this issue featuring the strange habits of the fascinating octopus. Growing replacement limbs, changing colors to camouflage, or glowing in the dark to navigate ocean depths, the octopus is an adaptable creature! Exercises guide your young explorer to develop a strong set of limbs, while a newspaper scavenger hunt strengthens skills of skimming and scanning a text.

In this issue students will:

• learn how the octopus survives and adapts to the environment
• read expository text to discover facts
• follow written directions
• use the newspaper to locate vocabulary words