Saturday, November 30, 2013

The Mouse and the Motorcycle



The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a tale about a mouse that lives in a hotel. All he wants to do is ride the motorcycle that belongs to a little boy named Keith. Keith teaches Ralph to ride the motorcycle.
This is a fantasy book because mice cannot talk and ride motorcycles. Each chapter is filled with the adventures that Ralph and the motorcycle have throughout the hotel.

There are not a whole lot of pictures in the book, but the ones that are in it are pencil sketches. The sketches give the reader a small visual glimpse into what is going on in the story.

 
 
Some motivational activities would be to have the class write a paragraph about what type of adventures they would want to have if they were Ralph and had a motorcycle.
 
Another one would be to have the class discuss what it would be like to be a mouse in a hotel. What kind of problems would a mouse run into?
 
 
Reader Response Questions:
 
1. Why would a mouse want to ride a motorcycle so bad?
 
2. Why do you think Keith and Ralph get along so well?
 
 
 
                                                                          References
 
Cleary, B., & Darling, L. (19901965). The mouse and the motorcycle. New York: Avon Books.
 
Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child (7th ed.). Belmont, CA:
                       Wadsworth/Cengage Learning

 


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