Lettersfor and Sounds Revised4 Green Alert! Isabel Thomas
Contents Green tricks 2 Packed with poison 4 Armed with stingers 8 Pool of doom 12 Green alert! 14 Written by Isabel Thomas Green Alert!
Green tricks
Trees have lush green crowns. Shrubs have sweet-smelling flowers. But do not be fooled!
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Trees, shrubs and weeds have cunning tricks to avoid being munched! 3
Packed with
poison This bee slurps the nectar but keeps clear of the green parts. They are packed with poison. 4
The weed’s bitter poisons stop cows from chomping them.
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Some insects can munch toxic weeds!
This sort of cricket has adapted to crunch the weed without being harmed.
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The scarlet seeds of this tree are toxic for us. But they do not harm starlings. Starlings love to swoop down and grab them.
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Phonemes covered: Adjacent consonants with long phonemesvowel Meet the trees and weeds that do not like to be munched! collins.co.uk/collinsbigcat Stretch and Phasechallenge4Set2 An information book GreenAlert!