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Vocabulary

Why are tigers danger? What are people doing to save them?

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Comprehension

normal, rescued, young

Support Words • against the low, blend in, in the

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w ild, sneak up on

High-Frequency Words • animals, kind, li ve, ma ke, people

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Words related to tigers (see glossary) NATIONAL CONTENT STANDARDS

Science • Life Science Word count: 383**

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Table of Contents Chapter I

All About Tigers. . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 Chapter 2

Why Are Tigers in Danger? .. 6 Chapter 3

How Can We Save Tigers? ... 12 Glossary/Index . . ............ 15

Comprehension Check .. . ..... 16

Chapter I

All Aboll' Tigets What kind of cat runs as fast as a car? What kind of cat is much stronger than a person? What kind of cat likes to play in the water? A tiger!

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Fast: Fast has the st sound. Find three more words with the st sound in this chapter.

U Tigers are good runners and swimmers.

The tiger's :) stripes blend in with the grass.

All tigers have different stripes. Tigers live in jungles and forests. A tiger's stripes help it blend in with the long grass, bushes, and trees. This helps keep the tiger safe. blend in: look like; hide in

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Tigers are mammals. A mammal feeds milk to its young . It is normal for tiger cubs to live with their mother for two to three years. Adult male tigers live alone.

U This tiger cub looks like its mother.

Tigers hunt alone. First they hide. Then they sneak up on their prey. They catch deer, wild pigs, and cows. Tigers are the biggest and strongest cats in the world. So why are they in danger? sneak up on: quietly and quickly move close to

Tigers can :) run faster than their prey.

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Chapter 2

Why A..e Tige ..s in Dange ..? A long time ago, many tigers lived in the wild. Today, the world has very few wild tigers. They are endangered. The biggest danger to tigers is people! in the wild : in natural places, away from people

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Where tigers live today

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People have moved into the tigers' habitats. They have cut down the jungles and forests. Then they have used the land to grow crops and raise animals.

o Tigers

used to live here

The tigers have no place to live and no food to eat. So the tigers moved away.

Sometimes hunger makes tigers eat farm animals. Then the farmers hunt the tigers to save their own animals. (b;)anguage

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Animals: Animals is a noun. It has the letter 5 at the end. Find two more nouns with the letter 5 at the end on this page.

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tigers' habitats became farmland .

People hunted tigers. They thought tigers were dangerous. People also liked to wear clothes made from tiger skins. Some people had tiger rugs in their houses!

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Tigers live and hunt alone.

Some people used tiger teeth, bones, and claws to make medicine. Today, it is against the law to hunt tigers. But poachers still hunt tigers. again st the law: not a llowed

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Chapter 3

How Can We Save lige.-51 Many people care about tigers and work hard to save them. They rescued tigers and put them in reserves. The reserves are safe places that look like the tigers' natural habitat. Q)anguage People: Find

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people t hree more t imes on

pag e 10.

U Tigers in reserves are safe from hunters.

Some tigers live in zoos. They live longer in zoos than in the wild. Animal doctors, called veterinarians, examine sick tigers and help them get well. Sometimes tigers born in a zoo may go back to live in the wild.

Two tiger cubs at a zoo in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Zoos keep tigers

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places that are

like their natural habitat. Find out what a zoo near you is doing to save wild animals!

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can't get this close to a tiger in the wild.

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Glossary endangered disappearing; having very few alive (page 6) habitats natural homes (page 7) mammals animals that are warmblooded and have a backbone (page 4) poachers people who hunt when it against the law (page II)

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prey an animal that is hunted for food (page 5)

Index cubs, 4, /3

people, 6-7, 9-/2

farm animals, 7, 9

poachers, /I

habitat, 7, 9, /4

reserves, /2

hunt, 5, /0-1/

veterinarian, /3

mammals, 4

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medicine, /I

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Comprehension Check Retell

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Complete the Sequence

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Chart with your class. Then use the photos

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to help you retell the information in this book.

Think and Compare I. Look at page 7. How did tigers lose their homes in the wild? (Identify Sequence of Events)

2. What would you like about being a tiger? What wouldn't you like? (Analyze) 3. How can people help save tigers? (Evaluate)

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Help! Write a letter to a zoo. Ask what the zoo is doing to help endangered animals. At the end, ask the zoo to send someone to talk to your class about it.

Write a Book What else do you want to know about tigers? Learn what tigers eat, where they live, how they hunt, and why they are different from other cats . Use the chart to organize your questions . Work with a partner to find the answers. Who! I know

Who! I won! !o know

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