The Anteater's Tongue

The Anteater’s Tongue is a humorous and realistic fiction story about an anteater trying to eat ants. Anteater keeps seeing ants, but when he goes to “zap!” them, they disappear. Anteater sees ants in the log, but gets his tongue stuck in the long! The ants escape and climb up a tree while the anteater stays stuck. The story is narrated with illustrative text and onomatopoeia.

The Anteater’s Tongue is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the changes in font style like bold and illustrative text as well as the information, layout, and design of a sequence. There is a story sequence at the end of the book to demonstrate the order of events. An activity on drawing and writing about what an anteater can’t do with his tongue stuck is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (tongue), high-frequency words (stay), and positional words (under). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for sentence beginnings, full stops, commas, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend st (stuck), word family og (log), and suffix s (looks).

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