The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear

by Don and Audrey Wood

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear, analysis by story elements.

Focus Questions

Goals and outcomes

  1. Read the story aloud together to enjoy a piece of quality literature.
  2. Discuss the interesting parts of the story.
  3. Casually probe to see what the readers and listeners know about story elements (characters, setting, plot, point of view, theme, style, tone)
  4. Suggest story elements can be used as a way to guide how a person thinks about stories.
  5. If participants haven't commented on the absence of the Bear, ask them if they think the bear is really a character. Ask them to support their answers with reasons why they think what they do. Comment about their ideas being inferences and several are possible.
  6. Ask about the point of view. Who is telling the story and to whom? Could be to the reader, or to another mouse? Are these inferences?
  7. Flip through the book together and find words and phrases that listeners and readers think are interesting and share them. Ask.
    • Are there some commonalities with what you selected?
    • Do the commonalities create a style?
    • How would you describe that style?
  8. What is theme? What might the mouse say that sort of summarizes the thinking and decision made in the story?

 

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