Stellaluna is full of messages about friendship, family and acceptance. This book and lesson plan are perfect for supporting advanced readers as they learn to identify multiple messages presented by one author in a story.

After a scary encounter with an owl, Stellaluna is left in a nest of birds, where she is adopted into a new family. To fully comprehend the meaning found in this story, readers will practice inferring character emotions using text and pictures clues.

This book is a smart choice for students who are learning to make logical predictions while reading. There are several action sequences in this book that present readers with many opportunities to anticipate the results and purpose of those events.

For more sophisticated readers, Stellaluna is an ideal book and lesson plan for practicing retelling and summarizing. Stellaluna offers readers an opportunity to identify key events and characters using a more advanced storyline and cast.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Stellaluna by Janell Cannon as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how long /e/ words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Stellaluna highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Stellaluna.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Stellaluna. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read Stellaluna then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Stellaluna. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Stellaluna includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.