Have learners choose activities to complete based on the books by Laura Joffe Numeroff. They are introduced to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the other books in this series through prereading activities. They then construct a portfolio...

Read then role-play the characters from story of If You Give A Pig a Pancake. Young actors use improvisation and characterization to create the characters from the story. They will also write and role play original version of the...

Practice reading with fluency by blending words together. To start, prepare flash cards with pseudowords on them (words that can be pronounced but have no real meaning), and work with the class to sound out the words using known...

If you give teachers a few good ideas, they can really bring a story to life. Included in this resource are dozens of activities to use as your class reads books in the If You Give... series. From holding puppet shows and creating...

Third graders identify the causes and effects of the story, "If You Give A Pig a Pancake" and "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", by Laura Numeroff. They write a cause and effect story using Kidspiration.

Students celebrate 100 by reading Keiko Kasha's, The Wolf's Chicken Stew, graphing, and making 100 pancakes.

Pupils participate in a variety of manipulative skills in cross-curricular activities (dramatic play, reading, problem solving) to improve creativity and health education.

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 explore the letter 'p' and the /p/ sound. Through instruction and modeling they practice writing uppercase and lowercase p's. They say 'p' tongue twisters. They identify 'p' words as they are read aloud from a story. They write...

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.

Young scholars explore how to read in a smooth, fast manner with expression. They practice reading a selected text within their reading groups. Students work on fluency while reading. They create a recording of the book and then listen...

Young scholars explore the five main components to reading fluency: faster reading, smoother reading, expressive reading, silent reading and voluntary reading. This lesson plan is designed to help children use expression as they read....

Pupils examine the letter 'i' and the short /i/ sound. Through instruction and modeling they explore how to make the short /i/ sound, how the letter 'i' is written, etc. They recite tongue twisters and read stories and pick out words...

Students write structured poems where the first and last lines are the same after looking at similar structures in books like Ralph Fletcher's Twilight Comes Twice and Laura Numeroff's If You give a Pig a Pancake. Teacher instructions,...