Bat Non-Fiction ELA & Animal Science Unit

Want to make learning fun and informative while teaching your students about bats this fall? Make learning all about bats fun for your first grade, second grade, and third grade students with these engaging hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities!

This resource will help your students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn interesting facts about microbats and megabats.

⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep activities to teach a comprehensive unit that supports every student in your classroom.

⭐ Students will discover about bats by reading captivating non-fiction text that is written in student language and completing partner projects and independent activities.

⭐ Bat printables and materials are provided to teach how to draw and label a bat, the life cycle of a bat, conduct a bat research project, learn bat facts and vocabulary, create a bat craft, and more to fill your fall or Halloween themed unit!

What you get in this 200+ page Bat unit:

• Visual activity instructions for your lessons
• Non-fiction children’s book list about bats to use for your project
• Know, Wonder, Learn (KWL) & Schema activities with anchor chart headers
• Vocabulary and fact posters with real photographs
• Vocabulary activities – matching & cards
• Fact sorting and recording pages
• Labeled diagrams of a bat
• Printable booklets for kids to fill-in, read, and draw
• Life cycle of a bat with anchor chart headers, activities, and mini books
• Bat photo analysis
• Differentiated writing prompts
• Bat directed drawing
• Bat writing and craft
• Research report booklet and writing paper
• Compare & contrast bats to birds on a Venn Diagram

**Check out the PREVIEW for a thorough look into what this resource includes!**

Why You Need the All About Bats unit:

• This unit provides several activities and template choices making it easy to differentiate and meet the needs of your students.
• Real facts are presented to your students in a fun, engaging way with photographs to keep them focused and excited to learn more.
• This resource helps you facilitate meaningful lessons and discussions about bats to enhance understanding of related vocabulary and facts.
• Build oral reading fluency and comprehension skills with the included stories and ELA activities.
• Easily display, teach and organize the facts and vocabulary for this unit with the easy-to-print anchor chart pieces.
• Use the included tools to facilitate a fun bat research project!

The best part? This resource saves you time as it comes with print-and-go activities and everything you’d need to teach your students about bats.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Julia S. says,” This is an excellent and well thought out unit. There are a variety of activities to fit any student ability level. My students loved learning about bats!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pamela A.. says, “This resource is a great supplement to my current science and reading curriculum. Thanks!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jennifer M. says, “This was such a fun research project. Thank you for making this seamless!”

You can get this unit in the Non-Fiction & Science for the Whole Year Bundle. This bundle has many units covering themes for the whole year.

You might also be interested in these Non-Fiction ELA & Science units:
All About Fall
All About Spiders
All About Penguins

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