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1、www.readinga-Written by Torran AndersonIllustrated by Norm GrockCorrelationLEVEL OM2028Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRALooking for BigfootLevel O Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Torran AndersonIllustrated by Norm GrockAll rights reserved.www.readinga-Photo Credits:Page 2:iS Capture;page 6:Desig

2、n Pics Inc./Alamy;page 8:REUTERS;page 10:Jesse Harlan Alderman/AP Images;page 11:Anthony Robert La Penna/Bangor Daily News/The Image Works;page 12:Topham/Fortean/The Image WorksLooking for Bigfoot34Table of ContentsI Set a Trap!.4What Is Bigfoot?.6Is Bigfoot Real?.7Evidence for Bigfoot?.9Bigfoot Aro

3、und the World.13Glossary.16I Set a Trap!No one has ever caught Bigfoot before.Some people think the giant hairy creatures dont even exist,but I think that Bigfoot is real.To prove it,Im going to catch one tonight!Then Im going to take it to school as my science fair project.I cant wait to see the lo

4、ok on the other kids faces when I come to class with Bigfoot.Im guaranteed to get first place in the science fair.Mapinguari in BrazilMapinguari in BrazilOrang Pendek in SumatraOrang Pendek in SumatraKikomba in AfricaKikomba in AfricaYowie in AustraliaYowie in AustraliaBigfoot or Sasquatch in the Un

5、ited States and CanadaBigfoot or Sasquatch in the United States and CanadaAlmas in the Caucasus MountainsAlmas in the Caucasus MountainsYeti or Migoi in the HimalayasYeti or Migoi in the HimalayasHibagon in JapanHibagon in JapanBigfoot Around the WorldLooking for Bigfoot Level O34Table of ContentsI

6、Set a Trap!.4What Is Bigfoot?.6Is Bigfoot Real?.7Evidence for Bigfoot?.9Bigfoot Around the World.13Glossary.16I Set a Trap!No one has ever caught Bigfoot before.Some people think the giant hairy creatures dont even exist,but I think that Bigfoot is real.To prove it,Im going to catch one tonight!Then

7、 Im going to take it to school as my science fair project.I cant wait to see the look on the other kids faces when I come to class with Bigfoot.Im guaranteed to get first place in the science fair.Mapinguari in BrazilMapinguari in BrazilOrang Pendek in SumatraOrang Pendek in SumatraKikomba in Africa

8、Kikomba in AfricaYowie in AustraliaYowie in AustraliaBigfoot or Sasquatch in the United States and CanadaBigfoot or Sasquatch in the United States and CanadaAlmas in the Caucasus MountainsAlmas in the Caucasus MountainsYeti or Migoi in the HimalayasYeti or Migoi in the HimalayasHibagon in JapanHibag

9、on in JapanBigfoot Around the WorldLooking for Bigfoot Level O56How will I catch one?Ive been learning everything I can about Bigfoot.Also,I set a trap for one behind my house.Now I just need to wait here and review my Bigfoot Secret Files.What Is Bigfoot?Bigfoot gets its name from the huge footprin

10、ts it leaves behind,but not just its feet are gigantic.Bigfoot is said to be between six and nine feet tall and weigh more than five hundred pounds!There have been sightings of both males and females.They are strong,apelike creatures covered in thick hair.Bigfoot is known to walk on two legs,have lo

11、ng arms,and smell terrible(even worse than skunks).Bigfoot?Looking for Bigfoot Level O56How will I catch one?Ive been learning everything I can about Bigfoot.Also,I set a trap for one behind my house.Now I just need to wait here and review my Bigfoot Secret Files.What Is Bigfoot?Bigfoot gets its nam

12、e from the huge footprints it leaves behind,but not just its feet are gigantic.Bigfoot is said to be between six and nine feet tall and weigh more than five hundred pounds!There have been sightings of both males and females.They are strong,apelike creatures covered in thick hair.Bigfoot is known to

13、walk on two legs,have long arms,and smell terrible(even worse than skunks).Bigfoot?Looking for Bigfoot Level O78Is Bigfoot Real?Many people think that Bigfoot is a hoax,a practical joke played by people wearing gorilla suits and pretending to be Bigfoot.This doesnt explain why people have reported s

14、eeing Bigfoot for hundreds of years all over the world.Could there really be that many people wearing gorilla suits?After all,new species are still being discovered.In 2012,scientists announced a new species of monkey called the lesula.Until then,only people in the Congo,in Africa,knew the lesula ex

15、isted.In fact,many rare animals are hard to find.There were no photographs of a giant squid until 2006.Some people thought that the giant squid was a hoax as well.lesulaIf not Bigfoot,then who?The first recorded Bigfoot sighting was in AD 986 by Leif Ericson.The early Viking explorer came to North A

16、merica and wrote detailed descriptions of“monsters”he saw in the forest.He said they were horribly ugly and hairy,and had big black eyes.Looking for Bigfoot Level O78Is Bigfoot Real?Many people think that Bigfoot is a hoax,a practical joke played by people wearing gorilla suits and pretending to be

17、Bigfoot.This doesnt explain why people have reported seeing Bigfoot for hundreds of years all over the world.Could there really be that many people wearing gorilla suits?After all,new species are still being discovered.In 2012,scientists announced a new species of monkey called the lesula.Until then

18、,only people in the Congo,in Africa,knew the lesula existed.In fact,many rare animals are hard to find.There were no photographs of a giant squid until 2006.Some people thought that the giant squid was a hoax as well.lesulaIf not Bigfoot,then who?The first recorded Bigfoot sighting was in AD 986 by

19、Leif Ericson.The early Viking explorer came to North America and wrote detailed descriptions of“monsters”he saw in the forest.He said they were horribly ugly and hairy,and had big black eyes.Looking for Bigfoot Level O910Evidence for Bigfoot?One reason people dont believe that Bigfoot is real is tha

20、t no bones have ever been found.No one has captured Bigfoot,dead or alive.The two best types of evidence we do have are footprints and film.Since Bigfoot is so big and heavy,it leaves footprints wherever it goes.People have photographed its footprints andwhere theres more than one footprinttheyve me

21、asured the distance between the prints.Thats how they measured Bigfoots stride,which can be more than twice the length of a humans!Since no one has captured Bigfoot,we dont know what species of animal it is.There are two popular theories,though.GigantopithecusSome people think Bigfoot is a giant pri

22、mate called Gigantopithecus,a twelve-foot-tall ape that lived 300,000 years ago.Gigantopithecus was the largest known primate to walk on two legs,but scientists think it went extinct a long time ago.NeanderthalsSome people think the descriptions of wild apelike creatures sound similar to Neanderthal

23、s.Neanderthals,who came before modern humans,were primates who walked on two legs and had human-sized brains.Neanderthals are thought to have disappeared around 100,000 years ago.Cryptozoology is the study of creatures,like Bigfoot,that have not yet been proven to exist.The term comes from the words

24、 crypto,meaning“hidden,”and zoology,which is the study of animals.Cryptozoologist Jeffrey Meldrumthe world expert on Sasquatch footprintsholds a casting of a footprint that he believes came from Bigfoot.A professor of anatomy,Meldrum has devoted most of his career to arguing for Bigfoots existence.B

25、igfoot Theories I am a cryptozoologist.Could Gigantopithecus still be alive?Could Bigfoot be a hairy Neanderthal that is not extinct?Looking for Bigfoot Level O910Evidence for Bigfoot?One reason people dont believe that Bigfoot is real is that no bones have ever been found.No one has captured Bigfoo

26、t,dead or alive.The two best types of evidence we do have are footprints and film.Since Bigfoot is so big and heavy,it leaves footprints wherever it goes.People have photographed its footprints andwhere theres more than one footprinttheyve measured the distance between the prints.Thats how they meas

27、ured Bigfoots stride,which can be more than twice the length of a humans!Since no one has captured Bigfoot,we dont know what species of animal it is.There are two popular theories,though.GigantopithecusSome people think Bigfoot is a giant primate called Gigantopithecus,a twelve-foot-tall ape that li

28、ved 300,000 years ago.Gigantopithecus was the largest known primate to walk on two legs,but scientists think it went extinct a long time ago.NeanderthalsSome people think the descriptions of wild apelike creatures sound similar to Neanderthals.Neanderthals,who came before modern humans,were primates

29、 who walked on two legs and had human-sized brains.Neanderthals are thought to have disappeared around 100,000 years ago.Cryptozoology is the study of creatures,like Bigfoot,that have not yet been proven to exist.The term comes from the words crypto,meaning“hidden,”and zoology,which is the study of

30、animals.Cryptozoologist Jeffrey Meldrumthe world expert on Sasquatch footprintsholds a casting of a footprint that he believes came from Bigfoot.A professor of anatomy,Meldrum has devoted most of his career to arguing for Bigfoots existence.Bigfoot Theories I am a cryptozoologist.Could Gigantopithec

31、us still be alive?Could Bigfoot be a hairy Neanderthal that is not extinct?Looking for Bigfoot Level O1112The most famous footage of Bigfoot was taken in 1967 in Bluff Creek,California.Roger Patterson and his friend were riding on horseback alongside a stream.They rounded a corner and saw Bigfoot ne

32、xt to the water.Pattersons horse got spooked and reared up,knocking him to the ground.Patterson yanked out his camera and filmed the seven-foot-tall creature walking toward the forest.In the fifty-three second film,you can see a female Bigfoot in motion.Her muscles ripple with her long strides.No on

33、e has been able to prove that the film is a fake.A frame from Roger Pattersons 1967 filmhuman footPlaster castBigfoot caststrange prints!Better yet,people have made plaster casts of some footprints.Theyve poured wet plaster into the prints,allowed them to completely harden,and guess what?Some of the

34、se casts show skin patterns that,like fingerprints,are only found on humans and other primates.The patterns found on the Bigfoot prints are like no other primates we know of,though.Looking for Bigfoot Level O1112The most famous footage of Bigfoot was taken in 1967 in Bluff Creek,California.Roger Pat

35、terson and his friend were riding on horseback alongside a stream.They rounded a corner and saw Bigfoot next to the water.Pattersons horse got spooked and reared up,knocking him to the ground.Patterson yanked out his camera and filmed the seven-foot-tall creature walking toward the forest.In the fif

36、ty-three second film,you can see a female Bigfoot in motion.Her muscles ripple with her long strides.No one has been able to prove that the film is a fake.A frame from Roger Pattersons 1967 filmhuman footPlaster castBigfoot caststrange prints!Better yet,people have made plaster casts of some footpri

37、nts.Theyve poured wet plaster into the prints,allowed them to completely harden,and guess what?Some of these casts show skin patterns that,like fingerprints,are only found on humans and other primates.The patterns found on the Bigfoot prints are like no other primates we know of,though.Looking for B

38、igfoot Level O1314Bigfoot Around the WorldThe mystery of Bigfoot has captured the imaginations of people across the globe.Large,hairy apelike creatures have been sighted all over the place,and Bigfoot is known by many names in different countries.The creature is called Bigfoot in much of the United

39、States.In the Pacific Northwest and Canada,Bigfoot is called Sasquatch.In the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet,it is called a Yeti.The names are different,but the wish to know the truth about Bigfoot is the same.Bigfoot has been spotted around the world for hundreds of years,so why shouldnt it show up i

40、n my backyard?When I catch it,Ill prove that Bigfoot is real,but I promise that I wont hurt it.Once Im done with the science fair project,Ill let it go.Waittheres something in my trap!This is the moment of truth,when all of my research pays off.Looking for Bigfoot Level O1314Bigfoot Around the World

41、The mystery of Bigfoot has captured the imaginations of people across the globe.Large,hairy apelike creatures have been sighted all over the place,and Bigfoot is known by many names in different countries.The creature is called Bigfoot in much of the United States.In the Pacific Northwest and Canada

42、,Bigfoot is called Sasquatch.In the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet,it is called a Yeti.The names are different,but the wish to know the truth about Bigfoot is the same.Bigfoot has been spotted around the world for hundreds of years,so why shouldnt it show up in my backyard?When I catch it,Ill prove th

43、at Bigfoot is real,but I promise that I wont hurt it.Once Im done with the science fair project,Ill let it go.Waittheres something in my trap!This is the moment of truth,when all of my research pays off.Looking for Bigfoot Level O1516Ive finally caughtmy dad!He does not look pleased.Dads feet are ki

44、nda big,and he is kinda hairy.You dont suppose?Glossarycreatures(n.)strange or unusual animals(p.4)evidence(n.)something that supports a theory or claim(p.9)exist(v.)to be;to live(p.4)footage(n.)images captured by a motion picture camera (p.12)hoax(n.)something meant to mislead or trick(p.7)primates

45、(n.)mammals that have a large brain and complex hands and feet,such as such as humans,apes,or monkeys(p.11)sightings(n.)acts of seeing something briefly,especially something unusual(p.6)species(n.)a group of living things that are physically similar and can reproduce(p.8)stride(n.)the length or styl

46、e of steps taken while walking or running(p.10)Looking for Bigfoot Level O1516Ive finally caughtmy dad!He does not look pleased.Dads feet are kinda big,and he is kinda hairy.You dont suppose?Glossarycreatures(n.)strange or unusual animals(p.4)evidence(n.)something that supports a theory or claim(p.9

47、)exist(v.)to be;to live(p.4)footage(n.)images captured by a motion picture camera (p.12)hoax(n.)something meant to mislead or trick(p.7)primates(n.)mammals that have a large brain and complex hands and feet,such as such as humans,apes,or monkeys(p.11)sightings(n.)acts of seeing something briefly,esp

48、ecially something unusual(p.6)species(n.)a group of living things that are physically similar and can reproduce(p.8)stride(n.)the length or style of steps taken while walking or running(p.10)Looking for Bigfoot Level Owww.readinga-Written by Torran AndersonIllustrated by Norm GrockCorrelationLEVEL O

49、M2028Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRALooking for BigfootLevel O Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Torran AndersonIllustrated by Norm GrockAll rights reserved.www.readinga-Photo Credits:Page 2:iS Capture;page 6:Design Pics Inc./Alamy;page 8:REUTERS;page 10:Jesse Harlan Alderman/AP Images;page 11:Anthony Robert La Penna/Bangor Daily News/The Image Works;page 12:Topham/Fortean/The Image WorksLooking for Bigfoot