THE LION AND THE MOUSE activities and lesson plan ideas

This THE LION AND THE MOUSE Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource 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 fable, THE LION AND THE MOUSE, 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 story!

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ SUMMARIZING / RETELLING

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ PREPOSITIONS

☐ PREFIXES

☐ ADVERBS

☐ HOMOPHONES

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ KiNDNESS

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The fable, The Lion and the Mouse, teaches the lesson that no creature is too small to help another.

At the beginning of the story, the Mouse runs across the nose of the sleeping Lion. When the Lion wakes up, he catches the Mouse and is about to kill her. The Mouse promises that if the Lion lets her go, she will someday repay the favor. The Lion laughs, thinking there is no way a small mouse could ever help him, but lets her go anyway.

Days later, the Lion finds himself caught in a hunter’s net. When the Mouse hears the Lion’s roars in the forest, she runs to help. She is able to gnaw through the rope and free the Lion. The Mouse points out it is true that a creature as small as she can help a lion.

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