Bats in My Attic

The students are reading a book titled, "Bats in the Attic".  It's the last book of a series of three books that the students have read this school year.  Each book is about a boy who is visiting his Gram for the summer.  His Gram lives by the ocean.  He has a lot of adventures in these books and learns quite a bit about nature at the same time.  While reading this books students are working with partners and completing various tasks.  Below are three of the tasks that Maddie and Elexus have completed.

Maddie   

a.          I think the author’s purpose is to entertain because there is story elements and that means the book is fiction.  The characters are Gram, Jim and the boy.  Some of the settings are the attic, outside, library and beach.  The plot is he wants to figure out why there is bats in his attic..  The problem is there is bats in his attic.  His solution is he goes to the library and finds books to tell him why the bats are in his attic, he found a book that told him that the bats were finding insects in his attic.

b.

   BATS

• A bat can eat 600 to 1,000 mosquito sized bugs in an hour
• Bats are related to humans
• Their skin is so thin that you can almost see through it
• Bats are split into two categories Megabats and Microbats
• Bats wings have four fingers   

Bats are disgusting mammals.

Bats are small.

Bats are way to slow.

c.       

   

SETTING	Beach, gram’s house, outside attic and library
TIME	summer, present
PLACE	In gram’s house
ENVIRONMENT	Clams, waves, sun

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Elexus

The authors purpose is to entertain and inform.  Entertain means to have story elements.  The characters are the Boy, Gram and Jim.  The setting is at the beach, the library and the house.  The problem is the boy heard strange noises. The solution is the boy went the library.

− Bats are not blind

− Bats

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