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Awesome
A Reading A–Z Level N Leveled Book
Word Count: 609
Ants
Awesome
Ants
Awesome Ants
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© Learning A–Z LEVEL N
Written by Rus Buyok
Fountas & Pinnell M
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Table of Contents
A Little History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A Little History
Let’s Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
You’ve seen them marching
One Big, Happy Family . . . . . . . . . 11
through grass and across sidewalks.
The Queen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 You may have even seen them
crawling over your kitchen counter.
Yep, Ants Are Awesome . . . . . . . . 14
We’re talking about ants—tiny,
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 strong, awesome ants.
Awesome Ants • Level N 3 4
abdomen thorax head
Body Parts
Like all insects, ants have six legs
and three body parts. The back part
This fossil of a giant male ant is over 49 million years old.
of their body is the abdomen. This
part holds the heart and stomach.
Ants are about 100 million years
Some ants have stingers that they
old. They were crawling around
use to protect themselves.
under the dinosaurs! Between then
and now, they’ve changed a lot. Their three pairs of legs attach to the
Today, over 10,000 species of ants middle part, called the thorax. Each
live on every continent except leg has little hooks that allow ants
Antarctica. They have been able to climb almost anything. Ants can
to survive so long because of their even hear with their legs by feeling
bodies and how they live. vibrations through the ground.
Awesome Ants • Level N 5 6
antennae
jaws
head
Happy Family
Ant colonies
are filled
with activity. worker ants
Usually built Soldier ants are usually much larger than worker ants.
The Queen
The queen is the leader of the
colony. The largest of all the ants,
queens are egg-laying machines.
Let’s Go Floating
Some queens can lay thousands of Not even water can stop some ants. They climb on top
eggs every day. They can also live of each other and link their legs until they form a raft or bridge
made of their own bodies.
longer than any other insect—over
twenty-five years. Yep, Ants Are Awesome