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First published in 2006 by Red Rocket Readers, an imprint of Flying Start Books Ltd.

Reprinted 2007, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018.

13/45 Karepiro Drive, Auckland 0932, New Zealand.

story John Lockyer

Printed in New Zealand

Photographs on pages 12, 14 and 16 supplied by iStock Photo

All other photographs supplied by Jupiter Unlimited

This book is copyright. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in

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Word Count = 269

Giant pandas belong to the bear family. They live only in China.

They eat bamboo and they have a special pad on their front

paws called a sixth nger. They use the nger to hold the bamboo.

Why are giant pandas disappearing? Will they become extinct?

How can they be saved?

Use Teacher Talk to stimulate discussion of topic.

Develop research skills based on this topic.

Use Table of Contents to locate specific information.

Refer to Glossary to clarify basic concepts.

Use initial letter plus picture clues to read unknown words.

Notice soft g sound: giant danger

Develop visual discrimination: save/safe

Use captions to expand on text.

Promote drama, writing or art as follow-up activities.

Find learning resources to extend and reinforce the literacy

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above around because live now only two work

ISBN 978-1-776853-44-1

written by John Lockyer

Contents Page

Giant pandas 2-3

Danger 4-5

Bamboo 6-7

Forests 8-9

Reservations 10-11

Zoos 12-13

Baby pandas 14-15

Saving giant pandas 16

Saving the Panda

Giant pandas are very big bears .

Their faces are white with black

patches around their eyes .

giant panda

They have short tails and thick

coats of black and white fur .

Giant pandas are in danger of

disappearing from the world .

The only place they are found is

in the high mountains of China .

Giant pandas like cool , wet forests

that are full of bamboo plants .

Bamboo is the food they like best .

They eat and eat for most of the day .

Their front paws have five fingers and

a special thumb to hold the bamboo .

bamboo

People in China think there are only

about two thousand giant pandas living

there . They are almost extinct .

Giant pandas are disappearing because

the bamboo forests are being cut down .

People want the wood from the trees

and they want the land for farms .

forest

Then the giant pandas will have

nothing at all left to eat .

If they cant find new forests

with bamboo , they will starve .

Now many people in China are

trying to save the giant pandas .

There are special places in the

mountains called reservations .

The pandas are very safe there ,

because nobody can cut down

trees or hurt them .

reservation

Zoos in some other countries are

trying to save giant pandas , too .

There are only about two hundred

giant pandas in zoos .

zoo

Reservations and zoos are the

only places in the world where

people can see giant pandas .

When baby pandas are born in zoos ,

they are looked after very carefully .

panda cub

The zookeepers and the mother pandas

help the cubs to grow strong .

Zoos and reservations are working

hard to save the giant pandas .

China a big country where pandas live

cub baby bear

danger something that can hurt or

do harm

disappear go away out of sight

extinct not existing any more

patch a small part that is different

reservation a special, safe place

zookeeper a person who looks after

animals in the zoo

Glossary

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