Fiction Readers: How to Be a Kitten

How to Be a Kitten is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a mother cat teaching her kittens how to be good kittens. The story is narrated with dialogue, onomatopoeia, speech bubbles, and illustrations.

How to Be a Kitten is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story. Opportunities arise to discuss the speech bubbles within the illustrations.

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (lick) and adjectives (clean). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Mother Cat), quotation marks, and commas. 

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.