Annie
and the Wild Animals
by Jan Brett, Houghton Mifflin Company,
1985
Activities ©1998 Nancy Polette
| ABOUT THE BOOK It had been a long winter and the snow was falling . Annie could not find Taffy anywhere. Annie waited and waited but her cat did not return so Annie decided to make some corn cakes and leave them at the edge of the woods to attract another small animal to be her pet. She could not believe it when a moose, a wildcat, a bear and a stag appeared. What will Annie do? Will she ever see Taffy again?  |
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| TO INTRODUCE THE BOOK Suppose that your family was ready to sit down to lunch when the doorbell rings and four friends come to visit. You have just enough food on the table for your family. Working in groups of four, rank order what you would do first, second, third and last. 1. Add more water to the soup, cut the sandwiches in half and ask the visitors to join you. 2. Don't answer the door. 3. Go to the store and get more food. 4. Ask the visitors to wait while the family has lunch. |
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| SING THE STORY Choose words to complete each line in the song. Tune: Hush Little Baby day cakes away there found bear pet Once upon a winter day Little Taffy ran (1)_____________ Annie walked the frozen ground But her pet could not be (2)__________ With corn (3)________________ she hoped to get An animal to be her (4)_______________ Moose and stag and growling (5) _____________ No small pet was eating (6)____________ Then spring came, they went away Taffy came back home to (7)_______________ |
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| SEQUENCING Put he sentences in order to tell the story. Add capital letters and periods where needed. 1. annie wants to find a new pet 2. taffy wanders off into the woods 3. taffy comes back with a new family 4. there is no more corn meal 5. when spring comes the animals leave 6. annie makes corn cakes for the animals |
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| THE DATA BANK Use the information in the bear Data Bank in the patterns that follow.
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| A COMPARE/CONTRAST PATTERN If I had the __________ of a _____________ I would _______________________________ And I'd _______________________________ But I wouldn't ________________________ And __________________________________ Because _________________ (do/does) that. |
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| DESCRIPTIVE PATTERN Hey kids! I have a ____________________ for sale. It's the handiest thing you will ever want to own since it can ___________ and __________________________________ and __________________________________ and the greatest thing about it is_______ ______________________________________ |
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| "If I Were" Pattern Name the thing you want to be. Where is it found? One thing it would do for someone else. A second thing it would do. Repeat the first line. If I were a blanket All snug in your bed I would curl all around you And keep you warm from toe to head If I were a blanket. |