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Name Encyclopedia Brown

Vocabulary
Directions Choose the word from the box that best matches each definition. Write the
word on the line.

1. cold-blooded animals with Check the Words


backbones and moist skins You Know
2. confused because something is amphibians
hard to understand or solve crime
exhibit
3. a source used for information
lizards
4. reptiles with long bodies and reference
tails and movable eyelids reptiles
salamanders
5. animals shaped like lizards
stumped
but related to frogs and toads

Directions Choose the word from the box that best completes
each sentence. Write the word on the line.

David raced over to the new 6. at the zoo. Nothing was


there! He was baffled and 7. . Had there been a
8. in which the animals were stolen? Had they escaped? He
checked the sign as a 9. about the animals that should be in
the new exhibit. Suddenly he noticed where all of the rattlesnakes and other
10. were hiding! The large sign had hidden them from view.

Write a Description
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On a separate sheet of paper, write a description of an imaginary animal. Use as many


vocabulary words as you can.

Home Activity Your child identified and used vocabulary words from Encyclopedia Brown and the
Case of the Slippery Salamander. Read an encyclopedia article with your child. Have your child point
out unfamiliar words. Work together to try to define each word by using the synonyms or antonyms
around it.

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