Bat Loves the Night

Vocabulary

100

What is the meaning of the word roost?

A. A male chicken

B. a way to cook meat

C. Where bats sleep

C. Where bats sleep

200

What word means "to sleep during the day"?

A. echolocation

B. nocturnal

C. doze

B. nocturnal

300

What part of speech is the word SWOOP?

a verb

400

What does the word SLITHER mean in the sentence below?

The snake slithers away.

A. turns

B. slides

B. slides

500

Use the word snuggle in a sentence with a a complete subject and complete predicate. 

Must use subject and predicate 

Suffixes

100

End the word LOVE with the correct suffix. 

A. -able

B. -ible

lovable

200

What do the suffix -able and -ible mean?

able to be 

300

Choose the correct suffix for the root word accept and tell me why.

A. -ible

B. -able

-able because the root accept is able to be a word on its own

400

Why do we use the suffix -ible on the root word incredible? 

because the root incred is not a word alone without the suffix ible

500

Choose the correct suffix for the word CHANGE and spell the word correctly.

changeable

DONT DROP THE "GE" (or ce)

Comprehension

100

What does Bat do at the start of the story?

A. Catch a moth

B. Feed her baby

C. Wake up

C. Wake up

200

Why do baby bats stay in their nest the first few weeks?

Because they cannot fly

300

What does Bat do BEFORE she begins to fly?

A. Feeds her baby

B. Unfurls her wings

C. Shouts loudly

B. Unfurls her wings

400

What is Bat's voice compared to? 

A. A wrapper falling from candy

B. A flashlight

C. A leaf

B. A flashlight

500

In the sentence: "Bat is at home in the darkness as a fish is in the water." 

Is the author comparing or contrasting? And tell me what they mean by that sentence. 

Comparing

Comparing how bats need the night to survive just like fish need the water to survive. 

VCV

100

ruler

A. V/CV and why

B. VC/V and why

A. V/CV 

because the vowel u is long and strong

200

depend

A. V/CV and why

B. VC/V and why

A. V/CV

because the vowel e is long and strong

300

Which word is a VC/V word and why?

A. donut

B. puddle

C. dragon

C. dragon

because the a is short and weak and need the consonant g's protection

400

True of False: the word TALENT is split as V/CV

False

because the vowel a is short and needs the protection from the consonant

500

When we split the syllables of a word with syllable pattern VC/V, the first vowel must be what? 

short/weak/closed

Parts of Speech

100

Which word or words below is a verb?

A. slither

B. twitch

C. echolocation

A and B

slither and twitch

Echolocation is a NOUN (a thing)

200

What is a verb?

an action

300

give me 2 verbs you would use when talking about bats 

(think of words from the story or some vocab words)

fly          eat       hear

echo       feed      hunt

snuggle    doze     see

squeak      sleep     swoop

400

Say 4 helping verbs

am is are was were being been be have has had do does did shall will should would may might must can could 

500

say a complete sentence that has a helping verb AND an action verb in it

must have helping verb and an action verb