MICE

Pygmy mouse

The pygmy mouse is the smallest mouse. It lives for one year. It lives everywhere in the world except Antartica. It weighs six grams and is four and a half centimetres long and has a tail three centimetres long.

 

Jumping mouse

The jumping mouse has long back feet. The Woodland jumping mouse can jump three metres. Jumping mice sleep for six to nine months in the year. They eat seeds, worms and beetles.

 

House mouse

The house mouse lives with people. It eats anything it can find. It can eat soap and glue and electricity cables. They are popular pets.

 

Harvest mouse

The harvest mouse can climb very well. It climbs grass and corn and holds on with its tail. It makes its nest at the top of stalks of grass and corn.

 

Dormouse

Small dormice are six centimetres long and weigh fifteen grams, and big ones are nineteen centimetres long and weigh two hundred grams. They sleep for seven months every year. They live for about three years.

Dormice can hear very well and can make a lot of noises. They eat fruit, nuts, seeds, insects, spiders, worms and eggs. The Romans liked to eat dormice.

 

Storytelling with Children. Andrew Wright.

 

 

PRE-READING ACTIVITY

 

The techaer will ask the children the following questions:

 

- Do you like mice?

- Do you know what is a jumping mouse? What do you think that is?

- Someone has a mouse as a pet?

- Do you like any mouse that appear in a movie or TV series?

 

 

WHILE-READING ACTIVITY

 

While reading the text, students should underline the main adjectives (as seen in the example of the text) that describe each type of mouse, order to form a short definition of each type and to differentiate.