Looking After Eggs and Babies

Looking After Eggs and Babies is an informational text explaining how mothers and fathers in nature look after their eggs and babies.  Some babies are in dens or nests, others are carried in pouches or on the legs or back. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language.

All of the sentences are short and similar in structure.  Spectacular labelled photographs match the text directly.  Bold face is used for emphasis.  The book concludes with an index.

The high frequency words are his and after.  Interest words include babies, den, and pouch.  The positional words are in and on.

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