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Reptiles

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Quicklinks

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Websites to visit

Website 1
Watch a video about different types of reptiles – turtles, snakes and lizards.

Website 2
Watch a horned lizard squirt blood from its eye.

Website 3
See chameleons' sticky tongues and swivelly eyes

Website 4
Watch a green basilisk lizard run on water.

Website 5
Watch a baby turtle head for the ocean after hatching.

Website 6
Listen to different types of rattlesnakes making rattling sounds with their tails. (Click on the speaker icons to hear the sounds.)

Website 7
Watch a video clip about grass snakes.

Website 8
Print out and shade in pictures of lizards and snakes. (Click on "Lizards and Snakes: Alive! Coloring Book".)

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About this book

Beginners
Reptiles

  • Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own.
  • Vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text.
  • Developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
  • Carefully selected internet links to exciting websites to find out more.
  • Great reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction.

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