This is an excellent text to use to begin demonstrating how asking questions can enhance comprehension for your students. Since the book is very straightforward, readers can begin practicing asking questions by identifying small details about the characters, the setting or the plot that they would like to know more about.

This lesson plan uses The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear to show students how they can make connections between their developed knowledge and the text. Readers will be able to use the common emotions and animals in the story to make connections.

This lesson plan is a good resource for introducing early readers to the practice of making inferences while reading. To infer how the mouse might be feeling or thinking at specific points in the story, students will be asked to draw on their own experiences during a time when they were afraid. Readers will also work to identify what words and descriptions help them infer meaning and deepen their understanding.

With each new method the little mouse attempts to keep his prized strawberry from the big hungry bear, students will practice making logical predictions about what the mouse will choose to do and how it will work out.

This book is ideal for early readers who are practicing to summarize their reading. The simple series of events in this story is easy for a reader to follow, and each page gives the reader a visual clue to aid in retelling.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how beginning consonants (b, h, m, s) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with consonants.

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear 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.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear 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 hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear. 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.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear 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.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.