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Feeling drowsy and needing to yawn? Odds are you’ll see someone yawning right along with you. Is it catching, the power of suggestion, or just copycat behavior? Kid Scoop digs into fun facts about yawning, relays why humans—and animals—do it, shares the “science of yawning,” the time of year when most yawning occurs, and why the hippo’s yawn is so different from all others. Next time you see someone yawning, you’ll understand why and might even “catch” that yawn yourself!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about yawning
- spot similarities and differences in two illustrations
- learn amazing yawning fats
- edit and rewrite a passage to correct spelling and grammar
- use the newspaper to locate alliterated words
- sequence events in a story
- locate one-, two-, three- and four-syllable words in a news article
- write creatively about your BIG yawn … what happens next?
7 page PDF
