Many Kinds of Bats- Central Idea, Supporting Details, &Inference

What is the central idea of Many Kinds of Bats

• There are many different kinds of bats that fly and live all over the world.

• All bats have thin skin on their wings to help them fly.

• Bats are in trouble because many species are disappearing.

• Bats are helpful; they carry fruit seeds away and drop them helping new plants to grow!

• If you see something fly, it may be a bird!

Answer explanation

Don't forget to check the first and last sentence of your text! Don't forget to check the title! All of the images are of bats! These hint help to give away the central idea!

Which details on pages 8 and 9 support the way bats are helpful? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY! (Hint: go back and read pages 8 and 9 again to be sure)

• Some bats eat fruit.

• Schools should teach people about bats.

• Many bats eat insects, including insects that bite.

• Some bats eat fruit and spread seeds helping new plants to grow.

• Bats can eat 600 insects in one hour!

Answer explanation

Sometimes we will see that sections or pages of a text will have their own key idea. In this case, page 8 has a key idea that bats help by eating biting insects. Page 9 has a key idea that bats drop seeds in new locations, helping new plants to grow!

What key idea do the details on pages 6 and 7 support?

• There are many kinds of bats that fly all over the world.

• Some bats live inside the walls of a house!

• Bats live together in roosts in many places in the world.

• The homes of bats are called roosts.

Answer explanation

I hope you turned in your book to pages 6 and 7! If not, that might cause you to miss this question. Both of these pages are giving details about the key idea that bats like to live together in roosts in many places in the world.

One key idea in this text is that bats are different from birds. What is one detail that is different between bats and birds? Draw and label the difference below!

How do you find the central idea of a text? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

• Look at the title

• Look at the first and last sentence

• Look at the images

• Think about what the text is mostly or mainly about

• Use the text evidence plus your schema to determine a conclusion the author didn't tell you

Why would the author write the book, Many Kinds of Bats?

• They want to support their claim that bats are the best animals.

• They want to convince you to love bats.

• They want to give you information about bats and the way bats live.

• They want to entertain you with a text that tells stories about different kinds of bats.

• They want to give you information about what bats eat.