COMPREHENSION:  Monitor and Fix up strategy.  You can create a chart showing the different ways animals carry, protect, and provide shelter for their young.  You can explain that this graphic organizer can help you monitor your comprehension – if they notice that  they haven’t recorded anything in a  page or two, there’s a chance that they missed some key information.

Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships.  The book discusses many different actions that animals take to take care of their babies, all with the effect of keeping them safe.  Talk with the students about the idea that a cause (a crocodile putting her babies in her mouth) can also be an effect (A predator had to cause the crocodile to put the babies in her mouth in the first place).  At the end of the book, Fraser talks about why it is that animals are so keen to protect their young.  This could be used to explore the idea that although there are many smaller causes and effects in the book, they all fit under the overarching idea of protecting young animals.