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Behind the Books: A Place for Bats in the Classroom


I’m so excited that a new, updated edition of A Place for Bats became available on
April 1. As with the original version, there are all kinds of ways you can use
it in the classroom.


For
starters, there’s a Teacher’s
Guide

that makes connections to a wide variety of Next Generation Science Standards
and Common Core standards as well as additional activities.

You
can also share one or two spreads of A
Place for Bats to support NGSS PE K-ESS3-3 for K students or read the whole
book as part of a lesson that addresses NGSS PE 5-ESS3-1 for grade 5 students.

This book is also great for Reading Buddies
programs. For more information, read
this article
and look at the materials on my
Reading
Buddies

pinterest board
.

A Place for Bats is
chockfull of text features. These
resources
can help you use the book to
create lessons that focus on nonfiction text features.

The
main text of A Place for Bats has
both a cause & effect text structure and a problem-solution text structure,
while many of the sidebars compare past human activities that hurt bats to
current more bat-friendly activities. That makes it a great mentor text for
students learning about nonfiction text structures. These
resources
can help you use the book to build lessons that
look at nonfiction text structures.

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