Stellaluna

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Stellaluna By Janell Cannon

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Scope and Sequence

Common Core State Standards that are addressed in each chapter are in parenthesis

beside the chapter/skill.

KWL chart (W7).………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Page 3

Graphic Organizer (RI5)…….………………………………………………………………………………………………Page 4

Compare and Contrast (RI9)…………….………………………………………………………………………………….Page 5

Nouns (L1).…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Page 6

Fact and Opinion (RI8)…………..…………………………………………………………………………………………….Page 7

Moral (RL2)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Page 8

Context Clues (RL4, L4)………………………………………………………….……………………………………….Page 9-10

Antonyms (L5).………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Page 11

Suffixes (L4).…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Page 12

Unit Quiz (RL1)……………………………………………………………………………..………………………………….Page 13-14

Answer Keys…….…………….…………………………………………………………...………………..………………….Page 15-81

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Name ___________________________________ Date_________________

Graphic Organizer

Two Types of Bats

Large Megabats Small Microbats

Eat Fruit Eat insects, lizards, birds, and fish

Live in warm, tropical regions Live worldwide except in Antarctica and

most of the Arctic region

Include nearly 200 species or kinds Include over 700 species or kinds

Larger eyes and can see well Smaller eyes with poor eyesight

Usually larger in size Usually smaller in size

Small ears Large ears

Use the chart to answer the following questions.

1. Which type of bat is usually larger in size? ________________________

2. Which type of bat has small ears? _______________________________

3. Microbats include over __________ species.

4. Megabats live in ____________________________________________.

5. Microbats have _______________ ears.

6. Which type of bat eats fruit? __________________________________

7. Microbats do not live in _______________________________________.

8. Which type of bat has poor eyesight? ____________________________.

** Stellaluna was which type of bat? _______________________________

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Name _______________________________ Date __________________

Stellaluna

Unit Quiz

1. How did Stellaluna get lost from her mother?

O Stellaluna went to the woods to play and couldn’t find her way home.

O An owl attacked Stellaluna’s mother and she fell from her mother’s breast.

O Stellaluna ran away.

2. What is one way that bats and birds are different?

O They can both fly.

O Birds have eyes and bats don’t.

O Bats hang upside down and birds don’t.

3. Which of the following did Stellaluna do after she started living with the birds that she did not

do before?

O She ate grasshoppers.

O She slept hanging upside down.

O She slept during the day.

4. Which word in the sentence is a noun?

She listened to the babble of the three birds.

O listened

O three

O birds

5. Why did Mama Bird tell Stellaluna that she would not let her back into the nest if she didn’t act

like a bird?

O Mother Bird thought Stellaluna was teaching her children to do bad things.

O Mother Bird thought Stellaluna was too big to fit in the nest.

O Mother Bird didn’t want the other birds to make fun of her for having a bat in

her nest.

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