53 What Is Very Long

What Is Very Long?

by Maryann Dobeck

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ISBN-13: 978-0-325-01455-5 ISBN-10: 0-325-01455-8

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What Is Very Long?

Author: Maryann Dobeck Heinemann 361 Hanover Street Portsmouth, NH 03801–3912 www.heinemann.com Offices and agents throughout the world Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Books Copyright © 2009 by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, and Heinemann All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be mailed to the Permissions Department at Heinemann, 361 Hanover Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801.

ISBN-13: 978-0-325-01455-5

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This is a giraffe.

The giraffe has a very long neck.

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Here is a frog.

The frog has very long legs.

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This is a bird.

The bird has a very long beak.

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Here is an elephant.

The elephant has a very long trunk.

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This is a monkey.

The monkey has a very long tail.

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Here is a rabbit.

The rabbit has very long ears.

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This is a walrus.

The walrus has very long teeth.

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Here is a hippopotamus.

The hippopotamus has a very long name!

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