122 Stories: Supplemental Guide 7A | The Story of Jumping Mouse, Part I
Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes
Story Review
- Ask students, “What kind of story is ‘Momotaro, Peach Boy’?” [Have
students say folktale with you.] - Ask students, “Where is the folktale ‘Momotaro, Peach Boy’ from?”
- “Momotaro, Peach Boy” is a folktale from Japan.
- Make sure that students have their pages from the Sequencing Events
activity (Instructional Master 6B-1) in Lesson 6. - Say to students, “Using your Sequencing Events cards for ‘Momotaro,
Peach Boy’, briefly tell your partner about the plot—or the events—of
the story.”
Introducing “The Story of Jumping Mouse, Part I”
- Tell students the next story they will hear is called “The Story of
Jumping Mouse, Part I.” They will hear this story in two parts. - Tell students that this story is also a folktale from another culture. This
folktale was passed down orally by Native Americans—the first known
people to live in what is now called the United States of America. - Remind students that folktales are one type of fiction—a story made
up from a person’s imagination. Some parts can be real and some
parts are make-believe, or fantasy.
Picture Walk - Tell students that you will take a picture walk through this story
together. - Ask students what they call a person who draws the pictures of a
story.- the illustrator
- Ask students if they know who the author of this folktale is.
- A folktale is a story that is first told orally, so the author is unknown.
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