Teach young learners the benefits of repeated readings. Practice the strategies of repeated readings, timed readings, and one-minute reads to become fluent readers that retain what they've read. They receive a copy of If You Give a Mouse...

Students are read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and develop their own story. They use a literature wheel to determine what the mouse will want next. They share their wheels with a friend.

Students are read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" page by page and discuss their favorite types of cookies. They predict what they believe will happen next based on what has already happened in the story. They practice putting...

Students participate in a field trip to a nursing home. In this character education lesson, students visit a local nursing home and bring the residents cards or crafts that they made.

Students observe and demonstrate how to read silently. As a class they discuss the importance of silent reading and how to select a book appropriate for their own reading level. They demonstrate reading silently, and write a summary of...

"Students read "The Island of the Skog." Prior to reading, students observe the book cover, predict the events of the story, and discuss what a skog may look like. Students make footprints in play dough and observe the differences...

Third graders listen to a story read aloud in order to discover the concept of cause and effect. With a partner, they make a cause/effect puzzle from a sentence strip. They then choose and read a story on the internet and make a...

In this identifying the subjects and predicates in sentences worksheet, students draw a line between the subjects and predicates in a list of sentences and circle the nouns and underline the verbs in a paragraph. Students write 32 answers.

Students discover how to predict the sequence of a story that repeats. They read different stories and predict what will happen to certain characters. They also finish sentences to create new lines in the book.

Students are read a book but not told the title. They determine the main idea of the story and possible names for the book. They develop their own story and illustrate them to show their classmates.

Third graders investigate cause and effect. For this cause and effect lesson, 3rd graders read a story and determine what are the causes and effects. Students match sentence strips to the make the correct cause and effect sentence....

Second graders have fun predicting the relative sizes of answers to addition and subtraction problems using their animal friends. When the lesson is finished, give each student two cookies for a job well done.

Students answer a series of question about different letter sounds. They verbally practice the sounds of each letter following set responses. They write the different letters and find words that start with that letter.

Students recognize predictable patterns in literature. They use the selected pattern to create their own writing using the same type of literary pattern. The new writing is proofread by other students and the editing is done until the...

Students brainstorm theme for counting book, work in pairs to create book using Kid Pix that shows numbers one through ten, make correct number of pictures or stamps to correspond to numerals on pages, and print out pages to be bound...

Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...

This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...

Math and literacy meet in this extensive lesson plan based on the familiar children's story, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Learners will be engaged in math activities such as, "Cookie Count," "Who Took the Cookies," and "Cookie Jar...

A video of the book "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie", written by Laura Nomeroff, and illustrated by Felicia Bond. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

This lesson plan is cross-curricular, economics and literature. Using the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," students will understand cause and effect and unlimited want, goods and services.

In this lesson plan, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of organization. The content focus of the lesson plan is to highlight that authors' story structures can be imitated....

Contains plans for two lessons about circular stories like those of Laura Joffe Numeroff, who is known for the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Students read stories with circular plots as models before composing their own. In...

Lesson that helps learners understand the economic concepts of goods and services. Students categorize economic activities as goods or services, and discuss the goods and services exchanged in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Jaffe...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect intended to improve reading comprehension. Students learn to identify causes based on effects and effects based on causes. Students also use explicit information...