October 2025

Do Spiders Wear Costumes?

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Academic Standards

Reading Objective:

Students will identify four ways that spiders disguise themselves as something else in order to survive.

Reading Level:

Lexile: 480L; GRL: J

Next Generation Science Standards:

2-LS4-1: Observe Plants and Animals in Compare the Diversity of Life in Different Habitats

Vocabulary:

survive, fangs, antennas