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Vocabulary
Facts About Guinea Pigs
Comprehension 1
Comprehension 2
Text Structure
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A male pig
What is a boar
100
When some guinea pigs age, their hair becomes _____.
What is darker
100
Guinea pigs are from this family
What is rodents
100
How does a guinea pig become tame?
Its owner should hold and pet it often
100
What genre is this story?
What is nonfiction?
200
A female pig
What is a sow
200
Apple peels, carrots, cabbage, and pellets
What is food that guinea pigs eat
200
This is the latin name which means piggy-looking cavy
Cavia porcellus
200
What do most of the details in this story tell us?
What it is like to have guinea pigs for pets
200
These appeared on the page outside of the story's text to give us additional information about guinea pigs.
What are captions?
300
To like
What is fond
300
warm, dry places
What is where guinea pigs live
300
The first guinea pigs came from _____.
What is South America
300
Is the statement a fact or opinion? Newborn guinea pigs are a funny sight.
What is an opinion
300
Name a fact about guinea pigs.
Answers will vary.
400
biting away
What is gnawing
400
8-10 years
What is how long guinea pigs can live
400
How does the author know so much about guinea pigs?
He had them as pets for much of his life.
400
This is what the author wants you to remember most about guinea pigs
How much pleasure they can give
400
Give an opinion about guinea pigs.
Answers will vary.
500
different kinds
What are varieties
500
Dutch Guiana
What is the country guinea pigs originated from
500
This is the text structure used to organize the story
What is fact and opinion
500
The author thinks that guinea pigs are chubby and _____.
What is cuddly?
500
This problem in the story could have made guinea pigs very unhappy.
They did not have enough food. Their home was not warm and dry. They were in a small, tight space.