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Night Flight, Set 4B

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Set 4B


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356 words

By Robert Dubrow

Illustrated by George Ulrich

Night Flight

Kenny’s Visitea (eat, bread, steak)

The CastleConsonant -le

Mick and Granddad’s Doughnutsoa (goat)

Brother? Sister?ai (paint)

A Job at the Ranchee (sheep)

The Best Giftee (sheep)

The Campersoo (food, cook)

Free!oo (food, cook)

Night Flightigh (light)

Chief and the Mouseie (pie, chief)

Night Flight

By Robert Dubrow


Why does the sight of a bat flying in the night sky frighten some people? Lots of people think of the bats they have seen in frightening films.

Program Author and Supervising Editor: Sheila Clark-EdmandsExecutive Editor: Bonnie LassEditorial Project Manager: Kate MoltzAssistant Managing Editor: Stacey Nichols Kim

Senior Designer: Karen LomigoraTypesetting: Tammy Keithley

© 2009 by Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty Family. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, without permis-sion in writing from the publisher.

ISBN: 978-0-8388-3738-X

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Printed in U.S.A.

1Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family.

Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS.

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A bat looks a bit like a mouse with wings. But a bat can take flight, unlike a mouse. Bats’ wings are not made of feathers. They are made of skin. This makes the wings thin and light, so bats can fly fast.

These people might be happy to find out that the bats in the sky are catching bugs for food.

Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family.Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS.

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A bat sleeps hanging by its feet all day. It sleeps with its wings tightly folded around itself. Some bats might hang from a beam under a road and some might hang from the branch of a tree.

Bats stay out of the bright light of day. They just come out at night. Night is the best time to catch bugs.


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Bats make high-pitched sounds to help them find food. They aim the sound at a bug, and the sound comes back to them. This tells the bat right where its food is. People cannot hear these high-pitched sounds.

Some bats live alone. Some might “hang out” with lots of other bats in a cave.


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The pup will soon get big. It may live as long as 20 years unless something catches it. A snake and a cat can catch a bat.

A mother bat has one pup each year.The small pup clings tightly to its mother when she is in flight.


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People are a danger to bats, too. Some people are frightened by them and might try to hit them.

But lots of other people delight in bats. Why? They see that bats can catch and eat one bug every six seconds.


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Some people put up bat houses so bats will make a home there. The bats sleep safely in these houses all day.

Then at night, the bats come out and swoop right down on the bugs that might eat healthy plants. They get rid of the pests people do not want.


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Bats might look frightening, but they are good to have around.

*Sight words are nonpatterned or very low-patterned words of high frequency.

Previously Taught SkillsNight Flight

Focus Concept: igh (light)

brightdelight flight frightenfrightened frightening highlight might night right sight tightly

Sight Words*a, are, come, comes, danger, do, does, has, have, is, live, mother, of, one, other, people, some, something, the, The, there, they, to, want, where

Consonant Sounds all consonantssh (ship)ch (chin)th (this, thin)wh (whisk)ck (clock)tch (catch)

ff (cliff)ll (will)ss (miss)

qu (quilt)

Vse

Welded Soundsang (sang)ing (ring)ong (strong)ung (stung)ank (bank)ink (wink) onk (honk)unk (trunk)

Syllable Patternsopen single syllables (so, he, fly)closed syllable exceptions (child, cold, find, post, roll)twin-consonant syllable divisionnontwin-consonant syllable division consonant-le

Vowel Soundsa (ax)i (hit)o (ox)u (up)e (bed)

al (ball)wa (wasp)

a (lake)i (bike)o (rode)u (tune)e (Pete)

ay (spray)ou (mound, cousin, doughnut, you)ea (eat, bread, steak)oa (goat)ai (paint)ee (sheep)oo (food, cook)

Affixessuffix -ed (melted, smelled, winked)suffixes -s, -es, -ing, -er, -est, -en, -ish, -ly, -y, -ful, -ness, -lesssuffix -age (package)prefix a- (alike)

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®

Set 4B


®

356 words

By Robert Dubrow


Night Flight

Kenny’s Visitea (eat, bread, steak)

The CastleConsonant -le

Mick and Granddad’s Doughnutsoa (goat)

Brother? Sister?ai (paint)

A Job at the Ranchee (sheep)

The Best Giftee (sheep)

The Campersoo (food, cook)

Free!oo (food, cook)

Night Flightigh (light)

Chief and the Mouseie (pie, chief)

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