The most highly respected animal living in North America is the skunk. With the 6 reading exercises students will learn about the skunk and its stripe, enemies, family life, spotted skunks, and pet skunks while they develop their skills in recalling information, researching for information, drawing conclusions, noting detail, evaluating and listing. An additional 19 cross-curricular activities in creative writing, phonics, word study, brainstorming and research plus teaching suggestions, list of vocabulary and fiction and non-fiction books make this a thorough teaching and learning resource.