Students love mammals. Find out fascinating facts about mysterious sloths, blood drinking vampire bats, cuddly wombats, and busy beavers.

Use this wide range of reading material as a motivating context for teaching comprehension strategies.
 
Use the information reports and follow-up activities as a starting point for an inquiry into the living world. As students gain control over information about mammals, get an understanding of how information reports work, learn how to gather information that they own, they can be scaffolded into conducting their own inquiry about a mammal of their choice.