City Mouse and Country Mouse

In early October, we are working on the Elements of Fiction.  We're especially hitting Common Core standards of identifying and describing characters, settings, and events in a story.  Here, students listened to a read-aloud version of Country Mouse and City Mouse.  What a great story, since the characters and settings are ripe for descriptions and comparisons!

After reading, students chose which setting to write about-- the city or country.  They cited text evidence as to why they liked that setting the best!

Here's the amazing hallway display that a fabulous parent helped me put together.  Thanks, Mrs. Shedwick!

PS-- The story was a little challenging, though, because my school is in a suburb!  I introduced the WOW word "suburb" and we watched a Brainpop Jr. video to help us identify our place in the world.  :)