Use Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Young readers will laugh and love this vividly illustrated and humorous book about a tiger that wants to let loose a bit from all the proper rules of his neighborhood. Peter Brown’s genius storytelling and illustrations invite children to ask questions, make connections and inferences, and consider the author’s message.
In addition to the comprehension strategy resources, you and your students can enjoy a lesson and guided activities focused on consonant digraphs, as well as vocabulary development resources and a standards-aligned assessment.
Throughout Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, the pictures and words provoke a sense of suspense for readers, which are opportune times for students to practice the skill of asking questions as they read. Students will pause to ask questions about the characters, setting, and resolution of the story. They'll also consider how asking questions and then answering them as they read helps them comprehend the story.
In Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, the author, Peter Brown, tells a seemingly silly story about a character that wants to be wild to prompt both adults and children to reflect on the nature of rules and when and if it's okay to be "wild".
Students will think deeply about the author's purpose in this lesson by noticing how both the main and secondary characters react and learn from the situation at hand. They'll walk away from the story and lesson being entertained and having thought deeply about the text.
All children will identify with Mr. Tiger in the book who wants to relax from the rules sometimes and just be himself. This lesson plan prompts students to make connections to the text as Mr. Tiger's journey unfolds, as well as reflect on how this strategy helps them comprehend the story.
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild provides many opportunities for readers to make inferences by thinking about the meaning of the words, illustrations, and even the speech bubbles. In this lesson, students will practice making inferences about events in the story, as well as characters' actions and feelings. Throughout the lesson, students will reflect on how inferences help them as a reader.
The sequential nature of the story lends itself well to providing opportunities for students to practice the skill of retelling and summarizing. In this lesson, students will pause several times throughout the book to recount what has happened so far by using transition words, as well as noticing the problem-solution structure of the story. The lesson also helps students articulate how retelling helps them as a reader.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown as a springboard for instruction focused on consonant digraphs.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how consonant digraphs are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with digraphs.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Mr. Tiger Goes Wild highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Mr. Tiger Goes Wild includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.
This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
Read Mr. Tiger Goes Wild then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in a hands-on and interactive way.
This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
Let your students dive into Mr. Tiger's emotions with this engaging and creative activity! As they retell Mr. Tiger's story, students will use descriptive writing to explore his feelings at different moments in the book. They'll fill in speech bubbles to express how Mr. Tiger might have felt during his journey and bring him to life by coloring their own version of the adventurous tiger.
Perfect for individual or group work, this activity promotes emotional awareness, storytelling, and artistic creativity in a fun and memorable way!
