Informational TEXTS: Flying Cockroaches! Heat Sends Your Favorit

Flying Cockroaches! Heat Sends Your

Favorite Pests Soaring

KAT Strategy

Today we are going to read about what causes
everyone’s favorite pest to take flight.

Word

Definition

Synonyms

Antonyms

Aerial (adj)

existing, happening,
or operating in the airskyward

Grounded,
land locked

Sweltering

uncomfortably hot

Roasting, boiling,
sizzling

Cold, Chilly

ectothermic

Animals that depend on

external heat to keep

their bodies warm

cold-blooded

Hot-blooded

Read the passage. Take your time and pay attention to signal words and phrases.

Multiple Choice

What is the text structure of the text?

• Comparison

• Chronological

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Cause, problem, and solution

Why does the fact that roaches are cold blooded affect their ability to fly?

Multiple Choice

Why are people in Florida not as concerned with flying roaches as
people up north?

• We like roaches down South.

• Flying roaches are not unusual in Florida, therefore people are not as worried about them.

• It is warm in Florida this enables roaches to take flight.

• People from the South are just built different.

What is the author's purpose for writing this text?

Multiple Choice

The writer's cause and effect text structure help convey the purpose of

• explaining why people have an increased fear of flying roaches.

• demonstrating the strength of one argument over another.

• shifting perspectives to create suspense and readers interest.

•  discussing a scientific phenomena.

Write your KAT summary

Use your text structure to develop a main idea as a foundation for your summary. Add textual support for each blank you filled-in on the main idea sentence stem.