A Litter of Pups

Challenge yourself to put in a word from the word bank that makes sense into the
story about coyotes.

Coyotes are very good parents. They feed and ____________ their babies until they
are grown. Coyote pups are _____________ in the spring. The litter of pups are
born ____________ in a den. The pups are tiny and ___________ when they are
born. Their eyes are ______________ and they cannot walk. _____________ coyote
nurses them. This means she feeds them _____________ from her own body.

The pups _____________ very fast. By two weeks their eyes are open and they can
___________ around. After three weeks they begin to come out of the den to play
but they stay ___________ to the opening. At about ten weeks, they leave the den
and live with the rest of the ___________.

After a few weeks of only milk, the pups _____________ to be fed meat. The adults
carry meat back from the hunt in their stomachs. The pups ___________ the jaws
of an adult. This causes the adult to bring the food back up into its ___________ so
it can be fed to the pups.

By three months old, the pups look like adults, but they don't begin to ___________
until they are about six months old.

grow begin lick walk

Mother pack mouth milk

hunt underground helpless born

protect close closed

*Draw a picture of a litter of pups playing near their den.*