Saving the Baby Turtles
A fact text about sea turtles that lay eggs on Israel's beaches, and the volunteers who protect the nests until the babies hatch.
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1Every summer, sea turtles come out of the Mediterranean Sea and their eggs on the beaches of Israel. A mother turtle a hole in the sand at night, lays about one hundred eggs, covers them and goes back to the sea. She never sees her babies.
2The eggs are in danger. People walk on the beach, dogs dig in the sand and foxes eat the eggs. So every summer morning, volunteers walk along the beach and look for turtle . When they find a , they move the eggs to a safe area with a around it.
3After about fifty days, the baby turtles . They are only five centimeters long. At night they run to the water, because they follow the light of the moon on the sea. Lights from houses and roads can them, so some beaches turn off their lights in summer.
4Scientists think that only one baby turtle in a thousand grows up. That is why every egg is important.
📘 Glossary
- lay - to put eggs down
- digs - makes a hole in the ground
- tracks - marks left by an animal as it moves
- nest - a place where animals keep their eggs
- fence - a barrier around a place
- hatch - to come out of an egg
- confuse - to make someone unsure where to go
Questions
Finding details
1. When does the mother turtle dig a hole in the sand?Finding details
2. Give TWO dangers to the turtle eggs.Finding details
3. What do the volunteers look for on the beach?Reference words
4. In paragraph 2, the word "they" in "When they find a nest" refers to…Finding details
5. Complete: The baby turtles hatch after about ______.Making inferences
6. Why do some beaches turn off their lights in summer?Main idea
7. What is the main idea of the text?Word meaning
8. Copy the word from paragraph 3 that means "come out of the egg".
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