he focus of this reading is the text.There will be opportunities in this reading to connect the information in the illustrations to the information in the text. This will help add meaning to the text. Remember the inferences you made about feelings and possible conversations. Make connections as often as possible between the behavior of the mouse and the behavior of your child.

*Point out the pauses that the author tells you to make by using commas and an ellipsis (. . .).
*Pages will be paired together when they are part of the same sentence.
*Read the pages before you ask the questions.

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To allow the brain to focus on the information in the illustrations, this reading will look only at the illustrations and the information they provide to the reader. There are no right or wrong answers in this reading. If the pages are not numbered, page 1 is the first page of text.

Your child will be asked to infer what the characters might be saying to each other or might be feeling in the illustrations. Your child will, also, be asked to predict what the boy and the mouse will do next. Discuss the humorous details.

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ABOUT THIS BOOK: IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE

by Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie has been on best-seller and “favorite” lists since it’s publication in 1985. Ms. Numeroff has followed it with a series of over a dozen titles that follow a circular tale of cause-effect events that result from such simple gestures as a generous little boy offering a mouse a cookie. This popular book is imbedded in our culture from a mention in the Harrison Ford movie Air Force One to being praised by former First Lady Laura Bush and First Lady Michelle Obama. The humorous storyline has been the basis for plays and musicals that have been enjoyed by children all over this country. Over four million copies of this book have been sold.  www.goodreads.com has tallied over 115,000 ratings.