Bloodsuckers: Fleas! Ticks! Mosquitoes! Leeches! Lice! Vampire Bats!

Are you ready for a high interest, exciting unit to pique the curiosity of your students during this ghostly time of year? Then "Bloodsuckers!" is the product for you! This

product features informational reading selections about fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, lice, and vampire bats! Color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations help students to understand the life cycles of each of these creepy crawly pests! A great way to

tie in life cycles with reading and writing!

Also included are the following:

- Anchor charts

- Vocabulary activities (word search, crossword puzzle, scrambled letters, letter

shapes, and a "Crack the Code" activity)

- Vocabulary cards to display in your classroom

- Vocabulary notebooks for students to use

- Written response comprehension questions for each section!

- Guess Who I Am? riddle activity

- Diagrams to clearly explain life cycles

- Prewriting organizers for informational writing

- Editing checklists for students to use with partners

- Prewriting organizer chart

- List of commonly used transition words and phrases

- KWL chart for each of the creatures in the unit