Stellaluna Literacy Activities & Lapbook project

Wow, can't believe it has been almost a month since I have posted on my little blog here! But today is the day. I had to go back in time for this one. I totally meant to post about this back in October when our class actually read the wonderful story of Stellaluna, but time certainly got away from me! I just uploaded a new product, my 50th product, actually! : Stellaluna Literacy Activities and Lapbook Project!

What is a lapbook, you ask? Well, I didn't know either until just a few months ago when I read Mrs. D's blog post about Lapbooks. After reading her post, I thought I could easily incorporate a lapbook project with Stellaluna. See more about the lapbook later in this post!

My class had so much fun with this that I thought I would bundle it up for TpT and share our week long unit of Stellaluna literacy activities!

We began the week by reading Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. 

If you do not have access to the book, it is available on Storyline Online!

The first activity we did was create a Story Map as a class. I had the kids get in groups to write a sentence on a sentence strip for each story element. 

Then when the groups were ready, they glued on to our class story map. 

The groups worked well with each other and we left this posted on our board all week. 

If you would like to make your own using my labels, it is included in the file on TpT. The following printables to help with summarizing are included as well!

Glue this one into the lapbook!

The next day, we revisited the story to work on sequencing and put the story events in order. 

(This is an image for the TpT file, where you can find the printables)

I just wrote the events on sentence strip for our class activity but I've included them as printables in the file. You could have them sequence as a small group or independently. 

Here is the sequencing sheet for the lapbook!

Simply cut out, sequence and glue on other side. This goes great on the inside flap of the lapbook. :)

I also created a couple of Flow maps...

Here's a peek at the lapbook, as my example. 

Refer back to this picture to see how our class made it. :) 

Another literacy activity we did with the story was Cause and Effect. This can be a challenging skill for little ones so we actually completed the following flip book together as a class. 

And why not have a cause and effect printable to go along with it??

Ok, so my class LOVED this part! They were so interested in learning more about Bats that a mini research project was highly engaging. We completed this K and the W of our class KWL chart before we started researching. Then I let the kids have some guided research time. (By "guided" I mean, I had saved the approved links to bat websites to my teacher website for my kids to access. I wanted to be time efficient in guiding them to good sites)

Here are a few KWL sheets included...

And here is what we LEARNED!

Not entirely accurate with the "90,000 different species of bats"! Lol, we fixed that later!

The SmartBoard lesson is included in the TPT file! Your students can complete an interactive venn diagram on bats and birds. :)

I made some compare/contrast printables to go with the literacy pack!

These could easily be shrunk down on  your copier to be included in your lapbook!

Here are a few of my student examples!

 These students were so proud to show off their completed lapbooks!

Oh, and I almost forgot, I also have a comprehension test included in this little bundle of activities! 

Get this fantastic literacy activity pack with the lapbook project HERE!

Thanks for reading and be sure to check back soon...I promise more activity on the blog in the coming weeks!!