National Geographic Kids USA - September 2017

DAN SIPPLE

Rain Forest Fun

Ask a friend to give

you words to fill in the

blanks in this story without

showing it to him or her.

Then read out loud for a laugh.

BY ALLYSON SHAW

I was deep in the rain forest of

country

with my friend

famous person

, searching for an

ancient ruin called the Lost

noun

of the

animal

. But just
number

minutes into the

journey, we realized we’d forgotten our

type of insect

spray! A swarm of

adjective

bugs

was

verb ending in –ing

us! We

adverb ending in –ly past-tense verb

through the trees and soon smacked

into a(n)

something hard

. I pulled back some
type of plant,plural

and couldn’t believe my

body part,plural

.It

was a part of the ruin—and we could hear

sound ending in–ing

coming from inside! We peeked through a hole in the

wall and saw a group of

animal,plural

. They were lounging on stone
type of furniture,plural

, snacking on

favorite food, plural

, and even swimming in a

liqui

I guess this ruin isn’t really lost at all!

34 SEPTEMBER 2017