More Little Mouse Deer Tales

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More Little Mouse Deer Tales




There are three stories about Little Mouse Deer.

In the First, Little Mouse Deer falls into a pit,
but he uses his wits to trick an elephant into the pit too. Then Little Mouse Deer climbs up the elephant and escapes.

In the Second story, Little Mouse Deer tricks a tiger into thinking he is fierce. He tells her that the head of a tiger he has just eaten is in the well. When the tiger looks, she sees her own reflection and thinks it is another tiger.

In the last story, Little Mouse Deer boasts to Gecko about his tricks. Gecko challenges Little Mouse Deer to a race. Gecko tricks Little Mouse Deer and wins the race by using all his brothers and sisters who look just like him.



Stories retold by Monica Hughes

Pictures by John Clementson

OXFORD university press

With thanks to Sheila Tomkyn who told about Little Mouse Deer stories from Malaysia.



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TALK TOGETHER


Look at the cover and read the title together.
Point out 'More', and ask your child if they have read any Little Mouse Deer Tales before.



READ THE STORY


Encourage your child to read the stories aloud to you and join in with the enjoyment.

Praise your child when he/she notices something that doesn't make sense when reading.

If your child misreads words, ask him/her to reread the sentence and check it makes sense, but don't let your child struggle for long or he/she may lose the sense of the story.


Encourage your child notice the punctuation around the spoken words , and to read with expression, e.g. raising voice tone at the end of sentences with a question mark.


At the end of the book , ask your child which story they enjoyed most, and encourage him/her to read it again.


PLAY A GAME

This game will help your child take notice of punctuation while reading, and to read with expression, which will help him/her understand and enjoy books.


Talk with your child about the character in the stories.

Discuss what they are like and how they say things.

Choose your child's favourite story, and take turn to read the spoken words to each other, as if you were the characters in the story.


OTHER IDEAS

encourage your child to read other stories in which animals play tricks on each other.

talk about the setting of the stories with your child ( a mALAYSIAN rain forest).

Talk about other animals that might live in the rain forest. collect pictures from magazines and make a rainforest scrapbook.






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