Watch out for Flying Foxes

Worksheet by CJ Stone
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Subjects
ELA
Grades
3
Language
ENG
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Read the text and fill in the missing words. You will use each word one time. Birds and insects can fly, but can foxes fly, too? The bat is the only flying mammal. Fruit bats, the largest of all bats, are sometimes called flying foxes.There are almost 200 kinds of fruit bats. They are called fruit bats because they survive on fruits. Some fruit bats only drink the juice from fruit. Others eat whole fruits, seeds and all.Most fruit bats have long noses, large eyes, pointy ears, and furry bodies. Some kinds have wings as long as six feet across. Fruit bats can be brown, gray, or black. They live in thick forests or swamps. Fruit bats are often found in trees in big groups called camps. Some camps have more than a thousand bats in them.The next time you hear noise in the trees, look up. It might be a camp of fruit bats! What is this article about? foxes bats owls Why are fruit bats called flying foxes? they are really big they look like foxes they are in the same family Could there be fruit bats in Winton Woods? yes no Where do fruit bats live?

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