Magnetic Reading Unit 2 Lesson 2

Match the following

• long, thin body parts or feelers

• unsuspecting

• wrongly having trust in

• attacked

• tiny living things

• tentacles

• put in danger

• bacteria

• waits out of sight

• lurks

Match the following

• to look for

• match

• to be the same as

• search

• to make

• produce

Match the following

• an area near the equator and very hot

• tropical

• wet and slimy

• slippery

• living things that live on or inside

• parasites

Read the following sentence:

Some parasites carry diseases that could make parrotfish ill.

What does the word diseases mean?

• bugs

• animals

• slime

• sicknesses

How are anglerfish sneaky when they catch their food?

• They blend in, sit very still, and move slowly.

• Their bright colors scare away the predator.

• The are sneaky.

• They steal it by being very loud.

How do anglerfish eat big prey?

• Opens its mouth and water sucks in the prey.

• It chops it up into tiny pieces.

• It shreds it with its teeth.

• It eats it through a straw.

What do bobtail squid do to hide from hungry fish?

• Squirts ink that gives it time to change colors.

• Plays hide and seek.

• Hides behind a rock.

• They cannot hide from other fish.

True or False: Bobtail squid have many ways of hiding to stay safe from predators.

• True

• False

Parrotfish live in ____________.

• coral reefs

• the deep sea

• the open ocean.

• the seagrass beds

Predators swimming below the squid look up to search for the dark outlines of their prey in the starlit water.

What does search mean in the sentence above?

• ignore
• observe
• attack
• to look for