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    Animals K-2 Focus Book Animals in The Air

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    Some animals have wings or other body parts that allow them to fly or glide through the air. Wings come in many different shapes and sizes and help birds and insects fly in different ways. The document discusses how various animals like birds, bats, butterflies, and others use wings or skin flaps to move through the air.

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    Animals K-2 Focus Book Animals in The Air

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    Some animals have wings or other body parts that allow them to fly or glide through the air. Wings come in many different shapes and sizes and help birds and insects fly in different ways. The document discusses how various animals like birds, bats, butterflies, and others use wings or skin flaps to move through the air.

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    Some animals have wings or other body parts that allow them to fly or glide through the air. Wings come in many different shapes and sizes and help birds and insects fly in different ways. The document discusses how various animals like birds, bats, butterflies, and others use wings or skin flaps to move through the air.

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    Animals K-2 Focus Book Animals in The Air

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    Some animals have wings or other body parts that allow them to fly or glide through the air. Wings come in many different shapes and sizes and help birds and insects fly in different ways. The document discusses how various animals like birds, bats, butterflies, and others use wings or skin flaps to move through the air.

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    FOCUS Book

    Animals
    of the

    Air
    Most animals that fly have wings.
    How does the shape of wings help
    something fly? Make three paper
    airplanes. Build wings that have
    different sizes and shapes. Which
    airplane flies the farthest?
    Can you change the wings to make
    the planes fly better?

    Beyond the Book


    Go outside and watch an animal
    that flies. Which parts of its body
    help it fly? Use words and pictures.
    Animals Some animals fly in the air.
    How are animals that fly the same?
    of the How are they different?

    FOCUS Question
    Air flying frog

    How do animals move


    in the air?
    Patterns
    Photo Credits:
    Front cover: © iStock/M-Reinhardt; page 2 (top): © Stephen Dalton/Minden Pictures; page 2 (bottom left): © Paul
    Grecaud/123RF; page 2 (bottom right): © iStock/Silfox; page 3 (top): © Jinfeng Zhang/Dreamstime.com; page 3
    (center): © Rui Matos/Dreamstime.com; page 3 (bottom): © Lana Langlois/123RF; page 4 (top): © Chris Hill/123RF;
    page 4 (bottom): © iStock/pixonaut; page 5 (top): © Igor Chernomorchenko/123RF; page 5 (bottom): © ZELJKO
    SEPIC/123RF; page 6 (top): © Steve Bloom Images/Alamy; page 6 (bottom): © Photoshot Holdings Ltd/Alamy;
    page 7 (top): © Christian Wilkinson/123RF; page 7 (bottom left): © iStock/mickeyd_600; page 8: © Timothy James/
    Dreamstime.com; page 9 (top): © rck953/123RF; page 9 (bottom): © John J. Henderson/123RF

    Illustration Credits:
    page 7 (bottom, right): © Q2A Media Inc.

    ladybug
    Animals of the Air
    © Learning A–Z
    zebra finch
    All rights reserved.

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    Some animals have wings. Birds have feathers.
    Wings let animals fly. Feathers help birds fly.
    Wings come in many They also keep birds warm and dry.
    shapes and sizes.

    damselfly

    snowy owl

    great
    horned
    owl cardinal

    Butterflies have
    four wings.

    swallowtail
    butterfly
    Animals • Animals of the Air 3 4
    Not all animals that fly have
    feathers. Bats and dragonflies
    do not have feathers.
    Bats have hair on their wings.
    Dragonfly wings are smooth. flying squirrel

    Some animals move through the air


    without wings. They have extra skin.
    bat It helps them float on air. They can
    not fly very far.

    dragonfly flying lizard

    Animals • Animals of the Air 5 6


    Animals with wings can fly very Some animals fly to find food.
    far away. Butterflies fly from flower to flower
    This bird can fly across an ocean. to get food. Bees do, too. They look
    for flowers with bright colors.

    albatross

    This butterfly can fly from Canada to


    Mexico!
    Canada
    monarch
    butterfly
    United States

    a bee on a flower
    Mexico

    Animals • Animals of the Air 7 8


    Some birds can see far away.
    They fly high to get a good After reading the book, write or draw your answers
    to these questions on separate paper.
    look at the ground.
    1 What body part do most flying animals use to fly?
    If they see food, they fly down A feet
    to get it. B mouth
    red-tailed C wings
    hawk 2 Some animals can fly without wings. Compare
    how they fly with how animals with wings fly.
    3 Name two animals that can fly a long way.
    4 How are butterflies and bees alike?

    FOCUS Question
    How do animals move in the air? Look at
    the pictures of animals in the book. Tell how
    bald eagle wings can be the same. Tell how wings
    can be different. Use writing
    and pictures.

    Animals • Animals of the Air 9 10

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