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Kelly Nolan Dr. McKool If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Lesson Plan March 29th, 2011

Title – If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Grade – Kindergarten

Standard - Reading Standards for Literature: Key Ideas and Details 2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

Time – 20 Minutes

Objective – Students will be able to make predictions and as and answer questions about the book //If You Give a Mouse a Cookie// by Laura Numeroff.

Materials – //If You Give a Mouse a Cookie// by Laura Numeroff (big book), follow up comprehension sheet, pencils, glue, crayons, scissors.

Lesson Sequence – Pre reading: “Boys and girls, today you are going to hear a story by Laura Numeroff titled //If You Give a Mouse a Cookie//. Recently we have read a few books written by the same author, does anyone remember what books these were? Your right, //If You Give a Pig a// Pancake and //If You Give a Cat a Cupcake//. Now I know a lot of you have read this book before and I am very excited that you want to share the story with us but I would really like for only the people who have not read the story to make predictions because we do not want to give the story away to the people who have not read the book. Let’s look at the title, what do you think this book is going to be about? How do you know that? What do you think happens when you give a mouse a cookie? What would happen if I gave you a cookie? What would you want to go with it? What other things could happen in this book? Let’s look on the cover and see what else we could find? What could he use the crayon for? Ok boys and girls, let’s read and find out what happens!”

During reading- 1st stop page 11. “So boys and girls what happened so far? When we gave him the cookie what did he want? Do you ever drink milk with your cookies? I love milk with my cookies! What did the milk do to his face? What is a milk mustache? Then he looked in the mirror and what else did he notice? How did he cut his hair? Did he make a mess cutting his hair? How did he clean it up? 2nd stop page 19. “What do you think he will want to sign his name with?” 3rd stop page 25. “If he is thirsty what do you think he will want to drink? If he drinks milk what do you think he is going to want with it? Why do you think that?”

Post reading: “Remember what we said when we looked at the cover? What did we think he was going to want with his cookie? Is that what happened? What else happened? After he had the milk what happened? He needed a napkin right. What about after he cut his hair? What did he do? When he was coloring his picture what did he use to color it? Sign it? Hang it up? Ok boys and girls, today at the yellow table you are going to be doing a sheet where you will be putting the events of the story in order. First you look at the first picture and you think about the questions, what did he want, do and use, then you cut and paste the picture in the box where they belong. When you finish you are going to color the pictures in.”

Assessment – I will know students are successful when they are able to put the story events in order on the sheet given.