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The Giant Panda



The Giant Panda

A Very Quick Reader

Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 3 to 5
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   1.43

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    giant, adult, bamboo, pounds, weigh, bears, spend, large, short, crush, part, country, might, ears, living, hundred


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     Spanish: Panda gigante


The Giant Panda
By Vickie Chao
Rewritten as a very quick reader by Cindy Grigg
  

1     Giant pandas are bears. They are mammals. There are not very many giant pandas living in the wild. They are endangered. They live only in a small part of China. China is a country in Asia. You might see pandas in a zoo. Pandas are covered with soft fur. They are white with black legs. They have black fur around their eyes. Their ears are black, too. They have short tails. Adult pandas weigh about two hundred pounds. Pandas eat bamboo. This is a type of plant. .....
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