Name WALT: Retrieve information from a non-chronological report

Literacy Homework

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Crazy Frogs!
There are many crazy facts about frogs. They are very interesting creatures. Frogs are amphibians, this means they can live on land or water. There are almost 3500 different species of frogs around the world.

Features
Frogs have big back legs for jumping to catch their prey. Frogs have tiny teeth and cannot bite properly, so their mouths must be big enough to gulp down prey whole. Frogs also have big eyes on the very top of their heads and they can see by day and night.

Frog Spawn
Frogs lay jelly covered eggs called spawn. They hatch into tadpoles which have tails and gills for breathing underwater. Tadpoles grow and transform into adult frogs.

Little and Large

The goliath frog is the biggest frog, over 34cm. The tiny arrow poison frog is only 1cm long.

Can you read the non-chronological report and use the text to answer the questions? 1) What does amphibian mean? 2) How do frogs eat their prey? 3) How do tadpoles breathe underwater? 4) What is the biggest species of frog called? 5) How small is the arrow poison frog?