Bits About Bats: A Literacy Mini Unit!

A mini unit for mini learners!

Kindergarten Common Core activities addressed while learning facts about bats.Read your favorite texts about bats and the activities are all ready for you:

**Updated with a new bat craftivity!!**

Included in this resource:

•Bats resources page

•Bats facts page

•Bat facts mini book

•Stellaluna (by Janell Cannon) Story Map

•Bats can/have/are anchor chart elements and student recording page

Bat stick puppet and song

•Do you like bats? Graph elements and student response cards

•Bat Vocabulary Word Flip Book

•Procedures and tips for Close Reading with Kindergarten and First •Grade (Cheat Sheet for each day) with tips for facilitating great “partner talk”!

•Common Core aligned question stems for facilitating oral language and conversations rich in content vocabulary

•Ideas, rationale, and implementation suggestions for Close Reading extension activities

•Student copies of Close Reading Passages with spaces for student annotations

•Student writing prompt pages for Bats Close Reading Passage (4 options

for each all with “I can” statements)

•Text dependent questions for Bats Close Reading Passage

Great for a busy classroom that is short on time for "extra" activities, but can spare an afternoon or two for some

authentic learning fun, while still keeping it academic.

Common Core areas addressed:

English Language Arts

Writing

Math (graph)

Science

❤ Thanks!

Pam Davidson

Little Bird Kindergarten

Key Words: bats, Stella Luna, informational text, close reading, bat craft

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Not for public display, single classroom use only.