MOUSE SOUP
Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel is a great book for First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade. The short chapters and illustrations help readers read the story for themselves. This book, paired with these novel study book companion activities, will help students practice essential literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!
MOUSE SOUP BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS
In Mouse Soup, a weasel captures a mouse and wants to turn him into mouse soup. The mouse convinces the weasel that the soup will not taste good unless he adds some stories to it. The mouse goes on to tell the weasel some stories. The weasel heads off to find the ingredients mentioned in mouse's stories. They are things that are difficult to get and hurt the weasel. When the weasel returns to his kitchen to assemble the mouse soup, he realizes the mouse has escaped back to the safety of his own home.
This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your First Grade, Second Grade, and Third Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!
These novel study activities can be used for whole class instruction, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!
This Mouse Soup novel study book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!
Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for First Grade, Second Grade, or Third Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!
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