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Mentor Text Selections:Stellaluna by Janell Cannon and Pinduli by Janell Cannon

Writing Skill: Students will develop a writing piece that compares and contrasts two books by the same author.

Students will learn that they can use mentor texts to develop content for their own writing pieces.

Connection to Six Traits: Ideas and Content, Organization

Mentor Text Summaries:

Stellaluna is about a baby bat that is separated from her mother and lands in a bird’s nest.

She learns to behave like a bird until one day she is reunited with her bat family.

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Pinduli is about a hyena that comes across different animals that make negative comments about her physical features. Feeling embarrassed, the hyena decided to roll in dust to hide her stripes and pin her ears back to change her appearance.

The other animals mistake Pinduli for a ghost and in fear listen to everything she says. With Pinduli’s new appearance, she is able to teach the other animals that they shou