Title: Stellaluna
By: Janell Cannon
Summary: Stellalun is a high quality children's book that tells the story of a little bat who get separated from her mother. She stumbles upon a birds nest with three babies and their mother. Stellaluna grows up in the nest and learns to act like a good bird should, despite all her differences of being a baby bat.
Genre: of this book would be classified as a picture book.
Content Standard 1: that this book fits into would be Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5, Kindergarten, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, number 9: 'With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).'
How it Connects: The students can compare and contrast the bats and the birds and have discussions about things that are similar and things that are different.
Content Standard 2: that could apply to this book is Reading Standards for Literature K-5, Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details, number 3: 'Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.'
How it Connects: This content standard would work really well with this book because it can get the students thinking about how Stellaluna must have felt having to act like something that she isn't.
How Children Use Book: The children can use this book in centers by having them play with vocabulary, use illustrations to help them understand mood and feelings of characters or situations, and getting them to think more deeply about similarities and differences.
Meets Needs: The could help gifted children by expanding their knowledge of bats, where they come from, what the eat, ect.
3 Tiers of Vocab: would include words like 1) bat, bird, nest 2) forest, hanging, grasshopper 3) sultry, ripe, (not mentioned, but could purpose a word like 'nocturnal').
Genre: of this book would be classified as a picture book.
Content Standard 1: that this book fits into would be Reading Standards for Informational Text K-5, Kindergarten, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, number 9: 'With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).'
How it Connects: The students can compare and contrast the bats and the birds and have discussions about things that are similar and things that are different.
Content Standard 2: that could apply to this book is Reading Standards for Literature K-5, Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details, number 3: 'Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.'
How it Connects: This content standard would work really well with this book because it can get the students thinking about how Stellaluna must have felt having to act like something that she isn't.
How Children Use Book: The children can use this book in centers by having them play with vocabulary, use illustrations to help them understand mood and feelings of characters or situations, and getting them to think more deeply about similarities and differences.
Meets Needs: The could help gifted children by expanding their knowledge of bats, where they come from, what the eat, ect.
3 Tiers of Vocab: would include words like 1) bat, bird, nest 2) forest, hanging, grasshopper 3) sultry, ripe, (not mentioned, but could purpose a word like 'nocturnal').
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