One of the ways people send a message is with a smile! Animals can’t smile, but they have some clever ways of letting each other know information. They send messages in many different ways. How does your pet tell you that it is hungry or happy or cold? Can you copy some of the animals’ sounds?

Focus Skills:
– Read onomatopoeia words with prosody.
– Consolidate and automize decoding skills.
– Reflect on the text meaning

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