Town Mouse Country Mouse Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett.

With 34 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will identify story elements, determine the theme, analyze characters, compare and contrast, make predictions, inferences, and connections, answer questions that require them to think within and beyond the text, and so much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

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• Making Predictions: Students will make predictions about the text before reading the book.

• Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.

• Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.

• Recalling Events in Chronological Order: Students describe and illustrate four major events in the story in chronological order.

• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

• Comic Recall: Students will draw three scenes from the story, complete with speech bubbles, to tell the story's beginning, middle, and end with text and illustrations.

• Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.

• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• Cause & Effect: Students fill in the missing causes and effects (ANSWER KEY included).

• Problem & Solution: Students will identify four minor problems and solutions in the story.

• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• Character Inside & Out (Town Mice): Students include details from the story to describe what the characters say, think, do, and feel.

• Character Inside & Out (Country Mice): Students include details from the story to describe what the characters say, think, do, and feel.

• Character Feelings (Town Mice): Students describe how the characters’ feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• Character Feelings (Country Mice): Students describe how the characters’ feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• Character Development (Town Mice): Students select character traits that best describe the characters at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.

• Character Development (Country Mice): Students select character traits that best describe the characters at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.

• Character Change (Town Mice): Students will explain how the characters changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.

• Character Change (Country Mice): Students will explain how the characters changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.

• Character Perspective: Students will compare the town mice’s perspective about living in the country to the country mice’s perspective about living in the town by drawing pictures and adding words to the thought bubbles.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and describe what happened there and why it was important to the plot.

• Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know the setting changed.

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare and contrast the two main settings in the story.

• Setting Swap: Students draw a scene from the story in a mountain and beach setting. Then, they explain what would change and what would stay the same.

• Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then, answer the questions about the author's message.

• Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.

• Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• Thinking Beyond the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the definitions and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY included).

• Social Media Post: Students imagine they are a character in the story and create a social media post to share one event from the story. They will include a caption, name, location, the number of likes, and a creative hashtag.

• Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.

• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.

• Prep for a Podcast: Students pretend they're interviewing either the town mice or the country mice for a podcast and write out three questions they'd like to ask them, as well as their responses. They can then partner up with a classmate to act out the imaginary interview with the mouse couple they chose.

• Author Study Brochure: Students research to learn more about the author's life and create a brochure.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.