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"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" takes place outside and all around the boy's house . A boy gives a mouse a cookie outside his house. Then there is a chain effect all staring with the cookie. Since the boy gave the mouse a cookie he had had to give him a glass of milk. And since the boy gave him a glass of milk, he then had to give the mouse a straw. This chain continues until the story comes full circle and the mouse once again wants a cookie.

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This is a read aloud of the novel "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" written by Laura Joffe Numeroff. This read aloud can allow students to listen to the novel, read along and refer to it when doing any activity.

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If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. Join along as we read one of the most beloved stories of all time. This award winning book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff is a fun short story to share with family and friends.

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"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" can be used in early elementary education to have students start to recognize literary tools such as character and setting. Students can draw a picture as well as write a brief statement about it.

The characters of this novel are the mouse and by boy.

The setting of this novel is in and around the boys house. In the kitchen, the bathroom, outside the house, and in the office

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"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" shows cause and effect and sequencing throughout the entire book. The mouse starts off by asking the boy for a cookie, and there is a cain effect that giving the mouse a cookie leads to him asking for a glass of milk. The glass of milk then makes the mouse need a straw and so on. Students can use sequence cards to first work on practicing the order of events and see how cause and effect comes into play.

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Students can work on and learn about cause and effect after reading this novel. They cause use examples from the book to identify cause and effect and fill it in below in the worksheet while referencing to the book.

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Students can take cause and effect to the next level by picking and filling in their own examples.

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After reading the novel, we can incorporate math into a lesson from the book. We can take a class survey of each students favorite cookies. Depending on the grade level different activities can be done with this information. In lower levels children can work on counting and comparing the different types of cookies where as in high levels students can create fractions out of the data.