Night Flight
Set 4B 356 words
Night Flight
By Robert Dubrow Illustrated by George Ulrich
Kenny’s Visit ea (eat, bread, steak)
The Castle Consonant -le
Mick and Granddad’s Doughnuts oa (goat)
Brother? Sister? ai (paint)
A Job at the Ranch ee (sheep)
The Best Gift ee (sheep)
The Campers oo (food, cook)
Free! oo (food, cook)
Night Flight igh (light)
Chief and the Mouse ie (pie, chief)
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Program Author and SupervisingBy Robert Editor: SheilaDubrow Clark-Edmands Executive Editor: Bonnie Lass Editorial Project Manager:Illustrated Kate Moltz by George Ulrich Assistant Managing Editor: Stacey Nichols Kim Senior Designer: Karen Lomigora Typesetting: Tammy Keithley Why does the sight of a bat flying © 2009 by Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty Family. All rights reserved. in the night sky frighten some people? No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, without permis- Lots of people think of the bats they sion in writing from the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-8388-3738-X have seen in frightening films. 1 2 3 4 5 XXX 11 10 09 08 07 Printed in U.S.A.
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. 1 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 These people might be happy to find feathers. They are made of skin. This out that the bats in the sky are catching makes the wings thin and light, so bats bugs for food. can fly fast.
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 2 Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS. 3 A bat sleeps hanging by its feet all day. It sleeps with its wings tightly folded Bats stay out of the bright light of day. around itself. Some bats might hang They just come out at night. Night is the from a beam under a road and some best time to catch bugs. might hang from the branch of a tree.
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 4 Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS. 5 Bats make high-pitched sounds to help them find food. They aim the sound at a bug, and the sound comes Some bats live alone. Some might back to them. This tells the bat right “hang out” with lots of other bats where its food is. People cannot hear in a cave. these high-pitched sounds.
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 6 Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS. 7 The pup will soon get big. It may A mother bat has one pup each year. live as long as 20 years unless The small pup clings tightly to its something catches it. A snake and a cat mother when she is in flight. can catch a bat.
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 8 Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS. 9 People are a danger to bats, too. Some But lots of other people delight in people are frightened by them and might bats. Why? They see that bats can catch try to hit them. and eat one bug every six seconds.
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 10 Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS. 11 Then at night, the bats come out Some people put up bat houses so bats and swoop right down on the bugs that will make a home there. The bats sleep might eat healthy plants. They get rid of safely in these houses all day. the pests people do not want.
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 12 Sample Decodable Reader: S.P.I.R.E. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS. 13 Night Flight Previously Taught Skills
Focus Concept: igh (light) Consonant Sounds Vowel Sounds all consonants a (ax) bright sh (ship) i (hit) delight ch (chin) o (ox) th (this, thin) u (up) flight wh (whisk) e (bed) frighten ck (clock) al (ball) tch (catch) frightened wa (wasp) ff (cliff) frightening a (lake) ll (will) i (bike) high ss (miss) light o (rode) qu (quilt) u (tune) might e (Pete) Vse night ay (spray) Welded Sounds ou (mound, cousin, doughnut, you) right ang (sang) ea (eat, bread, steak) sight ing (ring) oa (goat) ong (strong) tightly ai (paint) ung (stung) ee (sheep) ank (bank) oo (food, cook) ink (wink) onk (honk) Affixes unk (trunk) suffix -ed (melted, smelled, winked) suffixes -s, -es, -ing, -er, -est, -en, Syllable Patterns -ish, -ly, -y, -ful, -ness, -less open single syllables (so, he, fly) suffix -age (package) closed syllable exceptions prefix a- (alike) (child, cold, find, post, roll) twin-consonant syllable division nontwin-consonant syllable division consonant-le
Bats might look frightening, but they are Sightgood Words* to have around. 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
Copyright © 2008 Educators Publishing Service, a division of School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family. 14 *Sight words are nonpatterned or very low-patternedSample Decodable words Reader: of high S.P.I.R.E. frequency. Night Flight. This book is not reproducible without permission from EPS.
SPIRE_DR_Set4B_EPS3763_cov.indd 19 6/6/08 6:01:58 PM Set 4B 356 words
Night Flight
By Robert Dubrow Illustrated by George Ulrich
Kenny’s Visit ea (eat, bread, steak)
The Castle Consonant -le
Mick and Granddad’s Doughnuts oa (goat)
Brother? Sister? ai (paint)
A Job at the Ranch ee (sheep)
The Best Gift ee (sheep)
The Campers oo (food, cook)
Free! oo (food, cook)
Night Flight igh (light)
Chief and the Mouse ie (pie, chief)
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