Saving the Peregrine Falcon

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Saving the Peregrine Falcon

• Open Court Unit 5_Lesson 5

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• Line 1 weighs ways navel naval
• Line 2 endangered enlarge enlighten enclose
• Line 3 centuries babies beliefs studios
• Line 4 extinct extinction danger endangered
• S1 Theyre ready to leave in their car to go
  there.
• S2 If you enlarge the photograph, it will fit
  into that frame.
• S3 Studies show that people should drink more
  water.
• S4 Animals that are in danger of losing their
  habitat are put on the endangered species list.

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Vocabulary

• DDT powerful poison that kills insects it is
  restricted by law because of damaging
  environmental effects (pg. 536)
• Many countries have strict laws about when and
  how to use DDT when fertilizing crops.
• eyries (ey-ries) nests of birds of prey built in
  high places (pg. 5540) The eagles returned to
  their eyries to feed their young.
• incubator (in-cu-ba-tor) heated container for
  hatching eggs (pg. 541)
• The children ran to the incubator to see if the
  eggs had hatched over the weekend.
• pip first crack in an egg made by a hatching
  chick. (pg. 542) Three of the six eggs in
  the incubator showed a pip.
• crop pouches in birds necks used to store food.
  (pg. 544)
• The mother parakeet stuffed seed into her babys
  crop.

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Spelling Base Word Families

1. educable
2. educate
3. education
4. force
5. enforce
6. enforcement
7. know
8. knowledge
9. unknown
10. occupy

1. occupancy
2. occupational
3. relevance
4. irrelevant
5. relevant
6. danger
7. endangerment
8. endangered
9. extinct
10. extinction