Marvin's Eggs

Marvin’s Egg is a humorous, fictional story about a park ranger named Marvin who puts an egg back into a nearby bird nest. He soon discovers the egg is not a bird’s egg but an alligator’s egg. When the alligator hatches and Marvin cannot feed it, he takes the alligator to an alligator farm.

Illustrations support interpretation and enhance enjoyment in this narrative text. Some illustrative text is used.

Some sentences begin with dependent clauses and contain adjectives and adverbs. Simple connectives such as and connect two ideas. To conclude, signs found in the park are shown. In addition, simple activities that include oral, written, and visual communication are presented in the Teacher’s Guide Notes.

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