Lesson 3
Lesson 3
Lesson Overview: This lesson aims to teach students a skill, compare and contrast, they can use
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
Time: 90 minutes
Lesson Plan 3
When students enter the classroom from recess, they will come to the carpet area and take a
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.
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.
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
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
Students will reach proficiency if they are able to complete the worksheet with 80% accuracy.
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
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.