This Lesson:
Writing a Roundabout Story

Focus Trait:
Organization

Lesson's Mentor Text:

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Numeroff

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Big Ideas behind this Lesson:

Trait Focus: Organization –The concept focus is organization as a structure that is imitate-able

Standards Addressed:

Reading:

Ask how many children have heard or read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. Discuss what kind of story this is.

Most children have read or heard at least one version of this story and can identify the structure of the story as a “roundabout story. Ask the students what kind of words are used to connect one event in the story.

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