No Teeth

10/10/2020 4:23:00 PM
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Do you know?

  • Anteaters are the only mammal that has no teeth.
  • Each day, they can eat up to 30.000 ants. 

Let's explore this animal right now!

FACT: Female anteaters give birth standing up!

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Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

  • What do mammal babies drink?
  • How long is an anteater's tongue?

What do mammal babies drink?

  • water
  • sea water
  • milk

How long is an anteater's tongue?

  • One feet
  • Two feet
  • Three feet

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

No Teeth

A is a kind of animal. A mammal is and has hair. Mammal babies drink milk. You are a mammal.

Most mammals have teeth. There is one mammal that does not have teeth. It doesn’t have baby teeth. It doesn’t have adult teeth. What kind of animal is it? How can the animal eat?

It is an anteater.  An anteater doesn’t have teeth, but it does have a long, tongue. One anteater has a tongue two feet long! When the anteater puts out its tongue, ants to it. The anteater puts its tongue back in its mouth. It flexes its to scrape the ants off its tongue. Then it the ants whole. Anteaters may eat 30,000 ants in one day!

Read and answer the following questions.

No teeth

An anteater with its long sticky tongue. Image: wikiwand.com

A mammal is a kind of animal. A mammal is warm-blooded and has hair. Mammal babies drink milk. You are a mammal.

Most mammals have teeth. There is one mammal that does not have teeth. It doesn’t have baby teeth. It doesn’t have adult teeth. What kind of animal is it? How can the animal eat?

It is an anteater.  An anteater doesn’t have teeth, but it does have a long, sticky tongue. One anteater has a tongue two feet long! When the anteater puts out its tongue, ants stick to it. The anteater puts its tongue back in its mouth. It flexes its jaw to scrape the ants off its tongue. Then it swallows the ants whole. Anteaters may eat 30,000 ants in one day!

Source: Daily Warmup Reading Grade 2

What is NOT true about mammals?
  • All mammals have baby teeth.
  • All mammals are warm-blooded.
  • All mammal babies drink milk.
  • All mammals are a kind of animal.
Most likely, anteaters swallow ants whole because they need _____.
  • milk to drink
  • teeth to chew
  • to flex their jaws
  • to scrape their tongues
An anteater may eat how many ants in one day?
  • 300
  • 3,000
  • 30,000
  • 300,000

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

  1. A mammal is and has hair.
  2. An anteater doesn’t have teeth, but it does have a long, tongue.
  3. It flexes its to scrape the ants off its tongue.
  4. Then it the ants whole.
  5. When the anteater puts out its tongue, ants to it.
  6. babies drink milk.

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

  1. The baby puts his hands in the jam so they are .
  2. Always chew food well before it.
  3. He has a strong square .
  4. Birds are animals.
  5. Her wet clothes were to her body.
  6. Cows, humans and whales are all .