Tiger and Monkey

Tiger and Monkey is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about Monkey tying a ribbon on Tiger’s tail. When Tiger woke up, he was mad and went after Monkey. When monkey was sleeping, Tiger tied Monkey’s tail to a tree! Then another monkey came along! The story is narrated with dialogue, speech bubbles and illustrative text.

Tiger and Monkey is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the changes in font style and size as well as the layout and design of a sequence chart. There is a story sequence chart at the end of the book to demonstrate the order of events with connecting arrows. An activity on drawing and writing about a time when they were mad about something is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (mad), high-frequency words (put) and compound words (asleep). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Tiger), full stops, commas, question marks, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend tr (tree), word family ot (got), and suffix ed (shouted).

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