Wednesday, April 19, 2017

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie


Author: Laura Numeroff

Illustrator: Felicia Bong

Genre: Picture Book

Annotation
If a hungry mouse shows up at your doorstep you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk. He will continue to ask for more as the day goes on.

Numeroff, Laura Joffe, and Felicia Bond. If You Give a Mouse a Coookie. New York: Laura Geringer
        Book, an Imprint of HarperCollins, 2015. Print.

ELA Content Standards
Key Ideas and Details- Kindergarten
3.) With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

How it Connects: The teacher and students can discuss the different character and their traits, the setting, and how the plot of the story escalates as the mouse keeps getting more than just a cookie.

Craft and Structure- Kindergarten
4.) Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

How it Connects: Reading this story to kindergarteners can open them up to new vocabulary. The teacher can discuss unknown words with their students.

Tier 3 Vocabulary
continue, mirror, mustache

Classroom Usage
Small Groups: Students can take turn reading the story and talk about the characters and plot.

Differentiation
This story could help gifted students in many ways. After the teacher reads the story to the class they could come up with questions to ask the students such as "how does the mouse fee?" The story could also help with comprehension.

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