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About 30,000 kinds of these creatures are known to be living, and more are still being discovered. Spiders by gail gibbons book assessment gail gibbons. Comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative reading response activities and projects, tests, and much more. Pages can include considerable notesin pen or highlighterbut the notes cannot obscure the text. Then gibbons gives examples of various interesting spiders and what they do.
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