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Intriguing Animal Series
General Phonics
Separating Words and
Syllables
100

Cher Ami had this injury while delivering messages during the war.

What is gunshot wound to the foot?

100

This omnivore is among the most colorful of lizards and has eyes that are about 350 times more sensitive to light than humans.

What is gecko?

100

Plural of the word 'life'.

What is 'lives'?

100

Separate the compound words bookcase and baseball...

What is book and case? What is base and ball?

200

Some birds let ants crawl all over them. This process is called...

What is anting?

200

This mammal from Australia has a bill like a duck.

What is platypus?


200

Add an apostrophe to the word 'spiders' in the following sentence: "Twelve spiders webs were all over the windows."

What is spiders'?

200

Separate the word "reptile" by syllable.

What is rep/tile?

300

Warmer waters in Florida made this group of animals dependent on the power plant.

What are manatees?

300

When scientists in Britain received a stuffed, dead platypus in the mail, they thought it was...

What is a hoax?

300

Add an apostrophe to the word 'chipmunk' in the following sentence: "One chipmunks nuts were stored under the tree."

What is chipmunk's?

300

Separate the word donate by syllable.

What is do/nate?

400

A place where orangutans go to learn life skills after being stolen from their mothers.

What is a rehabilitation center?

400

An octopus has its name because of this.

What is "okto"?, the Greek word for eight. (The number 8 is also acceptable.)

400

Add the suffix -ous to a noun to change it to an adjective.

What is: humorous? furious? ridiculous? adventurous? 

400

Separate the word trampoline by syllable.

What is tramp/o/line?

500

This East African game is the focus of the imposter substitute teacher and his sidekick in the 'Yo Yo Caper'.

What is Mancala? (This is a bonus question as not all students read this book.)

500

A very colorful way an octopus protects itself from its predators.

What is camouflage?

500

A homophone (a word that sounds the same but has a different spelling and meaning) for the word "whether" is...

What is weather?

500

Separate the word population, by syllable.

pop/u/la/tion

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