If You Take a Mouse to the Movies Elementary Lesson Plans

Posted by Megan Sheakoski Nov 9, 2009

Laura Numeroff's popular holiday story If You Take a Mouse to the Movies [HarperCollins, 1998] follows a mouse and a little boy as they set off on a series of silly adventures beginning with a trip to the movies. Kids love the light-hearted story and teachers can use the book to teach reading, writing, and math lessons.

1. The Language Experience Approach Lesson Plan: Make Popcorn With Kids to Teach Them How to Read Their Writing helps students increase language arts skills by writing about the shared experience and making popcorn and using their story for reading and grammar lessons.
2. In How to Teach Elementary Kids Compound Words: A Reading Lesson Plan Featuring If You Take a Mouse to the Movies students play a popcorn themed compound word match game to practice identifying and using compound words.
3. During the Elementary Snowman Glyph Math Lesson Plan: Teach Kids How to Follow Directions to Create a Non-Standard Graph students answer questions to create a snowman glyph non-standard math graph that tells a story about the person who made it.
4. The If You Take a Mouse to the Movies Reading Lesson Plan: Increase Comprehension Skills by Teaching Kids How to Sequence helps students increase their understanding of text by learning how to order plot events.

Teachers who are unfamiliar with the children's book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff can browse through the story on the HarperCollins website.