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Two Texts About Bats

Read two short original texts about bats, then compare and contrast the most important points each one makes. Grade 2 reading practice.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.2.9

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students tell what two texts on the same topic have in common.
Students tell what is different in the most important points of two texts.
Students use details from both texts to match facts to the text that gives them.

How to use

Read both texts aloud, one after the other. Then let students look back at each text as they sort, match and answer, and talk about what each author chose to tell.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.2.9

Compare and contrast the most important points made by two texts on the same topic.

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Two Texts About Bats

Compare the important points in two texts on one topic.

Read the two texts

Two authors each wrote a text about bats. Read Text A and Text B.

Text A: Bats at Night

Bats sleep during the day. Many of them hang upside down in a dark cave or a hollow tree, where it is quiet. When the sun goes down, the bats wake up and fly out to look for food.

Bats hunt in the dark, but they use sound to find food. A bat makes high squeaks as it flies. The squeaks hit an insect and bounce back to the bat. The sound that comes back tells the bat where the insect is. Then the bat swoops down and catches it. One bat can eat many insects in a single night.

Text B: Bats Around the World

Bats live almost everywhere in the world, except the coldest places. A bat is a mammal, and it is the only kind of mammal that can truly fly. Its wings are thin skin stretched over long finger bones. Some bats are very small, and others are much bigger. Most bats look for food at night.

Many bats eat insects, but not all of them do. Some bats eat fruit, and some drink sweet nectar from flowers. These bats help plants. Fruit bats spread seeds, and nectar bats carry pollen from flower to flower. A mother bat feeds her baby, called a pup, with milk.

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