MORE ACTIVITIES FOR MAIZY'S PET QUEST: A PONY PLEASE!
1. If you could pick any pet to have as your own, what would you choose, and why?
*critical/creative thinking, making connections
2. Write a rhyming verse about your ideal pet.
*identifying sound patterns, creative thinking
3. Use the Venn Diagram to show similarities and differences between horses and ponies.
* organizing, compare and contrast
4.What part of the story did you think was the funniest? Why?
*making inferences from the illustrations, visualizing, making connections
5. Draw a picture, act out a scene, make a model, or write a song about something else that would be funny or hard about having a pony for a pet.
*making connections, visualizing, addressing multiple
intelligences
6. Perform a Readers Theatre performance of the story.
For a full description of Readers Theater, please click here
*fluency
7. Do you think having a porcupine for a pet is a good idea? Why or why not?
*critical thinking, activating prior knowledge, predicting, understanding pros and cons
8. Why is Maizy’s mom sitting on the sidewalk on the last page?
*inferencing
9. Homonyms are words which sound the same but have different meanings, like ant and aunt. Find a pair of homophones in the story. Can you think of three more sets of words that belong to the homophone family?
*spelling, rereading for a specific purpose