One Is a Feast for Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale by Judy Cox

 One Is A Feast For Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale is an amusing book that reminds us to be thankful for small things. It is bursting with fantastic words, and the illustrations by Jeffrey Ebbeler are a feast for the eyes!

Possible Strategy Instruction:

Comprehension

• Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm.

Accuracy

• Use meaning and context to confirm.

Fluency

• Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling.

Expand Vocabulary

• Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing—crept, snoozed, dozed, scampered, tidbits, bobbed, bobbled, creeping, skidded, pirouetted, catter-whumpus, luscious.