Lesson 3

Title: Lesson 3 Understanding Stellaluna using Compare and Contrast

Lesson Overview: This lesson aims to teach students a skill, compare and contrast, they can use

in reading to aide in comprehension.

Resources or Materials Needed: Students will need the mentor text, a compare and contrast

anchor chart, graphic organizer, smart board, electronic microphone, listening center worksheet

and pencil.

Lesson Objective: Students compare Stellalunas experience of living like a bird with her

experience of living like a bat in order to determine a theme of the story. (ReadWorks, 2017)

Students will be able to use information provided to complete a comprehension worksheet and

meet a satisfactory score of 80%.

Time: 90 minutes

Lesson Plan 3

Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activity

When students enter the classroom from recess, they will come to the carpet area and take a

seat and I will turn on my electronic microphone.

Students will be asked if anyone knows what it means to compare and contrast. Once they have

had a chance to answer, we will move on. Use examples of comparing the three little pigs to the

true story of the three little pigs and talk about the differences in the two books.

Teacher will complete a KWL chart with students about bats so they have a background, or

activate schema.

Step 2: Content Presentation

Teacher will introduce the book with an attention grabber. If you could name a pet bat, what

would it be?
 Teacher will read the book and stop periodically to ask students questions in order to check for

understanding throughout the story. This will cause students to be listening for a purpose.

Step 3: Learner Participation

Teacher will post graphic organizer (Appendix E) on board with answers covered.

Teacher will ask questions to promote student response about the story.

When students answer a question from the graphic organizer, they will reveal the answer and

students will fill in their graphic organizer as well. This will continue until the graphic organizer is

completely filled in. If students struggle with answering the questions, the teacher will reread

passages to prompt students recollection of events.

Step 4: Assessment

Students will receive a comprehension worksheet (Appendix F) with multiple choice questions.

Teacher will read each question out loud for students to ensure that they understand what each

question is asking of them.

Students will reach proficiency if they are able to complete the worksheet with 80% accuracy.

Step 5: Follow-Through Activities

Students who need to revisit the text, will have the option to listen to the story again at the

listening center. This will also serve students who missed the reading of the story the first time

that it was read.

After all students have completed the assessment, they will turn it in.

Teacher will display a blank copy of the assessment on the overhead and ask for volunteers to

answer and justify their answers. If students are wrong, they can ask for help from a peer. This

will continue until the whole worksheet has been reviewed and is posted with all of the correct

answers.