How a Stick Insect Hides in Plain Sight, Read and Answer

Read the passage aloud together and look at the diagram before your child starts the questions. Each question names the paragraph that holds the answer, so show your child how to go back and check. On a walk, look for an insect or bird that matches its background.

Read how a stick insect sways like a twig in the wind and eats leaves at night to hide from birds. A twig is a little branch of a tree or bush. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Circle the letter of the best answer for questions 1 to 3, and write the answers to questions 4 to 6 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade living things, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with camouflage and mimicry. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Camouflage helps an animal blend in with the place around it, like a fawn whose spots look like patches of sunlight. Mimicry is when a harmless animal looks like a dangerous one, like a hoverfly with the yellow and black stripes of a wasp. Both help an animal stay safe from predators.

A stick insect's long, thin body and legs look like twigs, and it sways in a breeze like a twig in the wind. A flounder lies flat on the sea floor, changes its color and pattern to match the sand and flicks sand over its back so only its eyes poke out.

They support 3-LS4-2, which asks children to explain how differences in traits help some animals survive, and 3-LS4-3, which is about how well animals survive in a given habitat. A white hare in the snow or a flounder on the sand is easy for children to picture.

Yes. All 5 camouflage and mimicry sheets have an answer key.