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1 My Ant Can t Live in Antarctica by Bernade*e Lambert

2 Fluency-Building Color-Cued Text Break down text into phrases to cue appropriate pauses. Avoid word-by-word robo9c reading. Aid comprehension. 1. Read the text to iden<fy natural pausing or phrasing. 2. Use alterna<ng font colors or highlight colors to indicate where the reader should take a short pause (at the end of a phrase) or a full stop (at the end of a sentence). 3. Model how to use the color-cued text to read in phrases. Explain that you cannot take a breath un<l the color changes. 4. Listen to your child read aloud the color-cued text. Provide support as needed. 5. Give your child the same text without the color cues to prac<ce reading in phrases. (Both sets are provided for the text that follows.)

3 My Ant Can t Live in Antarctica by Bernade*e Lambert It s too cold, too dry, and too windy in Antarc<ca for my ant. Not my uncle. Not my aunt. My ant. Temperatures can dip to 100 degrees below zero. Brrr! My ant needs a warm shelter to build a nest and lay her eggs. When her eggs hatch, new ants form a social group called a colony. The all-female worker ants tunnel through dirt to make the nest bigger. But in Antarc<ca, sheets of ice, some<mes three miles thick, cover most of the land. My ant would be homeless. She would be waterless, too. Less than two inches of rain fall each year. Any rain that does fall freezes before it touches the ground. My ant needs moisture so her body won t dry out. And what about the powerful winds and blinding blizzards? My ant can liz 10 to 50 <mes her weight. But can she hold on with gusts up to 100 miles an hour? Whoosh!

4 My ant needs sunlight to store heat into her home. The sun never rises in the winter in Antarc<ca. Granted, the total darkness wouldn t bother her. She doesn t rely on her sight. She uses her other four senses to communicate with the colony. But there are no ant colonies in Antarc<ca. No ants to help her take care of the nest, locate food, and keep enemies away. Although she has the most advanced brain of all insects, a single ant can t survive by herself in Antarc<ca. She won t get help from the penguins, whales, seals, and arc<c terns that thrive in the ocean, on the ice, or in the sky. She can t expect help from the half-inch wingless midges. Those na<ve insects have adapted their bodies to dehydrate during the sub-zero temperatures and thaw when it gets warmer. My ant would freeze. So if you travel by plane or ship the only two ways to get to Antarc<ca to the coldest, windiest, and driest place on Earth, don t look for my amazing ant. She s at home nestled in the word Antarc<ca.

5 My Ant Can t Live in Antarctica by Bernade*e Lambert It s too cold, too dry, and too windy in Antarc<ca for my ant. Not my uncle. Not my aunt. My ant. Temperatures can dip to 100 degrees below zero. Brrr! My ant needs a warm shelter to build a nest and lay her eggs. When her eggs hatch, new ants form a social group called a colony. The all-female worker ants tunnel through dirt to make the nest bigger. But in Antarc<ca, sheets of ice, some<mes three miles thick, cover most of the land. My ant would be homeless. She would be waterless, too. Less than two inches of rain fall each year. Any rain that does fall freezes before it touches the ground. My ant needs moisture so her body won t dry out. And what about the powerful winds and blinding blizzards? My ant can liz 10 to 50 <mes her weight. But can she hold on with gusts up to 100 miles an hour? Whoosh!

6 My ant needs sunlight to store heat into her home. The sun never rises in the winter in Antarc<ca. Granted, the total darkness wouldn t bother her. She doesn t rely on her sight. She uses her other four senses to communicate with the colony. But there are no ant colonies in Antarc<ca. No ants to help her take care of the nest, locate food, and keep enemies away. Although she has the most advanced brain of all insects, a single ant can t survive by herself in Antarc<ca. She won t get help from the penguins, whales, seals, and arc<c terns that thrive in the ocean, on the ice, or in the sky. She can t expect help from the half-inch wingless midges. Those na<ve insects have adapted their bodies to dehydrate during the sub-zero temperatures and thaw when it gets warmer. My ant would freeze. So if you travel by plane or ship the only two ways to get to Antarc<ca to the coldest, windiest, and driest place on Earth, don t look for my amazing ant. She s at home nestled in the word Antarc<ca.

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