Butterfly House by Eve Bunting is the perfect book for spring or to tie into studies of life cycles. This unit includes before/during/after activities to use with the book in mentor text lessons, for guided reading, or an interactive read aloud. PLUS, you get…a LIFE CYCLES LAPBOOK to use in science.

HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THIS BUTTERFLY HOUSE UNIT:

Butterfly House is all about how to hatch butterflies, so it can be used as a science mentor text or as a way to connect your literacy instruction to a life cycles theme. The unit includes a variety of activities to choose from, so you may opt to use some of them as a literacy station or for paired reading.

WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE BUNDLE?

• prereading schema builder about butterflies
• 2 vocabulary pages
• making predictions anchor chart with DRTA 3 pages
• analyzing author’s craft 2 pages
• narrative elements
• sequencing
• making connections
• and summarizing
• Plus…A Life Cycles Lapbook Project (8 pages)
• and a Class Book Writing Option (Learning How Animals Grow)
  • Students will select an animal and write about how it grows and changes.

34 pages in all

OTHER SPRING RESOURCES YOU’D ENJOY:

• Chicken Sunday
• The Bee Tree
• Nerdy Birdy
• Sunflower House
• Someday a Tree
• Spring Poem of the Week
• Just a Dream
• The Bad Seed
• Miss Rumphius

GET THE BUNDLES:

Eve Bunting Author Study

Spring Book Unit Bundle

WHAT TEACHERS HAVE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE BUNDLE:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Verona S. says, “Excellent activities to accompany the book! Thank you!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kris Borgan (TpT Seller) says, “My favorite part was the life cycle lap book! Very challenging and fun!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Andrea H. says, “Great activities for before, during, and after reading the story!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Robin C. says, “This is a perfect add-on for Butterfly House. Thank you!”

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