The purpose of this reading is to bring everything together: the text, the vocabulary, and the illustrations. The discussion and activity options focus on analyzing the main idea, theme, character traits, setting and how all of the story elements fit together.

During this reading your child and you will read the story all the way through. Three ways that you can add fun and improve recall during this reading are:

~You may switch roles and become the listener and the questioner as your child “reads”(retells) the story to you.

~Your child and you may alternate the pages you read to each other.

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The focus of this reading is to read the story and talk about new vocabulary. There will be opportunities in this reading to connect the information in the illustrations to the information in the text.

*Read the pages before you ask the questions.

Pages 1 – 8:

Please look at the series of pages 1 – 8:

~Wild takes on several meanings in this book. When Mr. Tiger decides that he wishes to be wild, wild means the opposite of proper. Talk about what Mr. Tiger wishes.

~Remember to make a long pause for an ellipsis ( . . .).

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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. Enjoy the questions we have provided and feel free to create questions of your own. If the pages are not numbered, page 1 is the first page of text.

Mr. Brown uses color to highlight the difference between Mr. Tiger and the world in which he lives. You will be focusing on Mr. Tiger in each illustration. Discuss the changes that you notice in Mr. Tiger.

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ABOUT THIS BOOK: MR. TIGER GOES WILD

by Peter Brown

Mr. Tiger is bored and unhappy living in a very bland, proper world. This world is just not him! So, he starts taking increasingly bold steps toward enjoying himself in a world that let’s him be himself. Mr. Brown, a Caldecott Honor artist, creates clever illustrations that will make the First Reading great fun! Mr. Tiger’s transformation from an unfulfilled conformist to a content individual is revealed in the illustrations as well as in the text.

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