CINCO DE MOUSE-O activities and lesson plan ideas
This CINCO DE MOUSE-O Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.
Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, CINCO DE MOUSE-O by Judy Cox, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!
THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:
◼️READING STRATEGIES
☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS
☐ ANALYZING SETTING
☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT
☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS
☐ VISUALIZING
◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
☐ COMPOUND WORDS
☐ SUFFIXES
☐ ACTION VERBS
☐ PROPER NOUNS
◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS
☐ STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES
SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:
Mouse wakes up on May 5th smelling a spicy smell. There must be a fiesta nearby! He ventures out into the house in search of the party but there's nothing in the bathroom, kitchen or bedroom so Mouse heads outside.
As Mouse walks toward the city park, Cat stalks him. Mouse finds himself at a Cinco de Mayo party in the park. It is crowded with people eating, singing, dancing and walking around. Suddenly, Mouse spots a big pinata hanging from a tree and decides he wants the candy for a party of his own.
Throughout the fiesta, Cat is following closely behind trying to catch Mouse. As Mouse tries to get to the pinata, Cat chases him through the dance floor as the two dodge the dancing feet. Finally, Mouse is able to climb up onto the pinata while Cat waits below. When the pinata is smacked, Mouse goes flying through the air along with the candy. In the rush to collect the candy, someone steps on Cat’s tail and he goes racing home. Mouse is safe but it looks like all the candy is gone. Just before leaving, Mouse sees one last candy laying in the grass. He takes the lemon drop home to have a fiesta of his own.
This engaging picture book is a great way to introduce students to the celebration of Cinco de Mayo!
THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:
➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space
➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution
➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book
➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)
➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration
➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally
➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram
➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another
➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence
➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections
➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board
➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End
➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping
➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:
- narrative
- persuasive / opinion
- descriptive
- expository / informative
- creative / story writing
- procedure / how-to
- list making
- letter / postcard writing
- poem
- book reviews
INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:
➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)
➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables