If You Give a Mouse a Cookie By: Laura Numeroff

Book Title: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Author: Laura Numeroff

Illustrator: Felicia Bond

Genre: Modern Fantasy

Summary: The story goes through a series of events when a young boy give a small mouse a cookie.

ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 1, Key Ideas and Details #3- Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details

How it Connects: Students can follow the journey of what the mouse did all day and what event lead to the next by using an illustrated timeline they can create.

ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 1, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #7- Use illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas

How it Connects: Students can use the illustrations to infer what sequence of events may happen as the story continues. (open-ended)

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) mouse, cookie 2) scissors 3) refrigerator 

How Children Use Book: Individually and Small Groups

Meets Needs: ELL students can use this book and the illustrations to make connections to the text and vocab