Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back

By: Martin Jenkins

Skill: Graphic Sources

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

Author’s Purpose: inform

Words to Know

•collect

•hinge

•insects

•pitcher

•plants

•trap

More Words to Know

•bladderwort

•carnivorous

•chemicals•dissolve•flytrap

collectgather

together

hingea joint on which

a cover or lid moves back

and forth

insectssmall animals without

backbones with bodies divided into three parts

pitchera container for holding liquids

plants living things that can make their own food

trapa thing or means for

catching animals

I filled the pitcher with water.

I filled the pitcher with water.

The insects, or small animals without backbones,crawled onto the flower.

The insects, or small animals without backbones, crawled onto the flower.

The door does not work because of the rusty hinge.

The door does not work because of the rusty hinge.

I used a trap to catch the mouse that was keeping me awake at night.

I used a trap to catch the mouse that was keeping me awake at night.

You need to collect Food City receipts.

You need to collect Food City receipts.

Add Miracle Grow to your plants to make them grow larger.

Add Miracle grow to your plants to make them grower larger.

Let’s review our words. Watch carefully because they will flash on the screen for just a moment. We will clap as we spell the word.

collect

plants

pitcher

insects

hinge

trap

Spelling WordsCompound Words

• himself

• afternoon

• everything

• grandmother

• homework

• outside

• barefoot

• bedroom• butterfly• grandfather• everybody• backyard• popcorn• everyone• anyone

Review Questionsp. 140-149

1.What is the narrator’s interest?2.How does the bladderwort set

its traps?3. What makes the bladderwort’s

trap door open?4. Why are the shiny parts of the

sundew sticky like honey?5. What are the most important

facts you have learned so far about carnivorous plants?

Review Questionsp 150-158

1.What is the biggest type of sundew?

2. What do carnivorous plants not like?

3. Why doesn’t the Venus flytrap not eat the ant?

4.How does the diagram on page 152 help the reader?

5. How is a pitcher plant like and unlike a cobra lily?

6. Whose life is the narrator writing about?

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