Bats

Student Sites

Books: Fantastic Bats (JK), Bats (Urben/Engels), and Stelluluna (JK)

Bat Centers
Word sorts
Read bat books
Computer –bat websites
Bat poetry
Different Kinds of Bats (see sheet)

Activities
“A Bat’s Body” see sheet
KWL about bats
Apha-Bat-ical order (see sheet)
Bat unscramble (see sheet)

Bat comprehension sheet
Read and discuss bat book
The inside story – see sheet
A Bat’s Body – see sheet
Write bat facts on bat paper
Batty About Bat Facts – comprehension (see sheet)

Day One

Bats : KWL – what do you already know about bats, and what do you want to know about bats (students get into groups and use a transparency and overhead markers to write what they already know – they share with the whole class) Do the same thing for what they want to know.

Preview, predict, and read story (non-fiction) aloud to class - asking questions as I read. Talk about “teacher questions”

A Bat’s Body – read and discuss

The Inside Story – complete together

Day Two

Choral Read Story

Bat Questions (see sheet): Teach students how to find “right there answers” by looking back in the book. Students answer questions with a partner, writing the page number down that they found they answers.

Day Three

Partner Read Story

Batty Poetry packet with a partner