Laura Numeroff
Lesson plans for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, more

Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson will help students to make predictions using the pictures and the text. It will also help them with sequencing and recognizing words.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Activities including a bar graph, sequencing, and puppets.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This economics lesson begins with a review of cause and effect relationships.

If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
Students design their own story, using a literature "wheel" and filling in each part of the wheel with the next thing the mouse will want. The top portion of the wheel is turned to see the next desire of the mouse.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Postreading activities.

I Am a Word: Words as Names
In this lesson 1st and 2nd graders learn that some words are the names of persons, places, or things. Secondarily, this activity introduces the idea that words are conventions that are applied to things. Recommended texts include If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff, Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle, or The Great Pancake Escape by Paul Many.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Questions to help students understand the concept of "economic wants."

If You Give a Pig a Pancake: Maze
Printable activity.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake - P is for Pancakes!
Students write the letter P with pancake batter and a squirt bottle for a memorable lesson.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Word Scramble
Printable vocabulary activity.

Story Starters
Ideas to start young students writing creatively.