Parrot in the Bat's Cave

Parrot in the Bat’s Cave is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about Parrot meeting Bat in a cave! Bat tries to get Parrot to do bat things like hang upside down and go to sleep upside down. Parrot says he cannot go to sleep, and bat gets mad. The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrative text, and onomatopoeia.

Parrot in the Bat’s Cave is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the bold font as well as the layout and design of signs. There is an exemplar of signs at the end of the book to show signs in the water. An activity on drawing and writing about spying on something else is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (flippers), high-frequency words (make), and positional words (inside). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for sentence beginnings, full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend sp (spy), word family ave (cave), and suffix ing (spying).

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