activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about bats. Did you know that bats help preserve forests? Very interesting, isn't it? Let's get to know these animals better? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretive questions proposed!
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For some people, bats are frightening beings because they remind you of vampires… Are you part of this gang? So, it's time to review your ideas because bats are very interesting animals! For starters, they are the only mammals capable of flight. In addition, they help keep forests alive and healthy.
I knew only three – I said three: 1, 2 and 3! – among the more than a thousand known species, they feed on the blood of birds or other mammals, and evidently they do not do so out of harm, but because their organism needs this food. The other bats have a varied menu, which includes insects, amphibians, smaller mammals and even other bats. There are also those who eat fruits and those who feed on the nectar of flowers. It is precisely these, fruit bats and nectarivores, that play a very important role for the flora.
In the case of frugivores, their organism takes advantage of the nutrients from the ingested fruits and releases, with the feces, the seeds, which fall on the forest floor and give rise to a plant. On the other hand, nectarivorous bats carry out the well-known pollination. While feeding on the nectar of a certain flower, pollen grains (which are the male gametes of plants) stick to your body and, when they land on other flowers, these grains fall, allowing fertilization between they.
By spreading seeds and pollen, bats favor the birth of plants and ensure the good health of the forest. Are you now able to see these little winged gardeners in another way?
Joao Pedro Garcia Araujo.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 251.
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Question 1 - Read back:
“[…] are the only mammals capable of flight.”
In this passage, the author refers to:
Question 2 – In the segment “[…] evidently they do not this for evil, but because your organism needs this food.”, the underlined term:
( ) retrieves information.
( ) announces information.
( ) complements information.
Question 3 – Identify the bats that, according to the text, “play a very important role for the flora”:
( ) the bats that feed on blood.
( ) bats that have a varied diet.
( ) the bats that feed on fruits and those that feed on the nectar of flowers.
Question 4 – In parentheses there is:
( ) a conclusion.
( ) one explanation.
( ) a justification.
Question 5 - Watch:
“By spreading seeds and pollen, bats favor the birth of plants and guarantee the good health of the forest.”
The highlighted word indicates actions of bats that:
( ) are added.
( ) alternate.
( ) are contrasted.
Question 6 - The author of the text talks directly to the reader in the fragment:
( ) “[…] bats are frightening beings because they resemble vampires…”
( ) “The nectarivorous bats carry out the well-known pollination.”
( ) “Are you now able to see these little winged gardeners in another way?”
Question 7 - Mark the passage that contains an opinion of the author:
( ) “So it’s time to review your ideas because bats are very interesting animals!”
( ) “In addition, they help keep forests alive and healthy.”
( ) “[…] these grains fall, allowing fertilization between them.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
