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Bat Loves the Night Comprehension

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. What does Bat do at the START of the story?

a)

wakes up

b)

finds a cave

c)

catches food

d)

feeds her babies

2.

What does Bat do BEFORE she starts to fly?

a)

shouts loudly

b)

looks for food

c)

finds her babies

d)

unhooks her toes

3.

Read this sentence from the story.

Bat is at home in the darkness as a fish is in water.

How does the author connect information in the sentence above?

a)

by ordering the two events

b)

by comparing two ideas

4.

What is Bat's voice compared to in the story?

a)

a leaf

b)

a cave

c)

a flashlight

5.

Read the sentence from the story.

Bat plunges, fast as blinking, and grabs it in her open mouth.

Wha tis the meaning of the word plunges used in the sentence above?

a)

lands smoothly

b)

sleeps peacefully

c)

moves down suddenly

6.

Read this sentence from a caption in the story.

Sometimes mother bats carry thier babies when they go out, but mostly the babies stay behind in the roost and crowd together to keep warm.

What is the meaning of the word roost used in the sentence above .

a)

food that bats eat

b)

place where bats fly

c)

place where bats sleep

7.

Read this sentence from the story.

Fifty hungry batlings hang in a huddle, hooked to a rafter by oversized feet.

What is the meaning of the word batlings in the sentnece?

a)

bats that are babies

b)

bats that make noise

c)

bats that live in a cave

8.

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

a)

they can not fly.

b)

They can not hear.

c)

They are too cold.

9.

Bats are nocturnal.

What does nocturnal mean?

a)

eat plants

b)

eat insects

c)

sleep during the day

d)

sleep at night

10.

What happens when the birds are singing?

a)

Bat is sleeping.

b)

Bat is listening.

c)

Bat is flying around.