Fiction Readers: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about city mouse visiting his cousin country mouse. Country mouse decided it was time for a change and went to the city. After hiding from the woman in the house and the scary cat, country mouse decided he liked the country better! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrative text, labels, jokes, and illustrations.

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the illustrative text, labels, layout, and design. Opportunities arise to discuss the labels on the food packages in the city house. 

Readers develop vocabulary such as singular/plural (mouse/mice). Focus on suffixes and base words (scraping). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (mouse’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences, exclamation marks, question marks, commas, and quotation marks.

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.