Scott Foresman Reading Street 2.5.5

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Fiction Responsibility

Problem Solving

Rhymes

Dialogue

Labels in Pictures

Rhyme

Plurals

Reader

Three Little KittensThree Little KittensLearn a LessonLearn a Lesson

ISBN 0-328-14151-8

Talk About It

1. How did the Three Little Kittens end up getting pie?

2. What did the kittens learn?

Write About It

3. On a separate sheet of paper, write about a time you lost something. Tell how you felt.

Extend Language

Sometimes you can add an -s to a word to make it plural. For example: mitten changes to mittens.What are the plural forms of the following words from the story?

kitten rat pie mother thing

ISBN: 0-328-14151-8

Copyright Pearson Education, Inc.

All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.

This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois Parsippany, New Jersey New York, New YorkSales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts Duluth, Georgia Glenview, Illinois

Coppell, Texas Sacramento, California Mesa, Arizona

by Bethany LyonsIllustrated by Janet Skiles

Three Little KittensThree Little KittensLearn a LessonLearn a Lesson

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2MR. DO-RIGHT: Hello! I am Mr. Do-Right. Welcome to my T.V. talk show. This afternoon we are talking about being responsible.

The Three Little Kittens are here. You may know about them. There is a famous rhyme about them. Here is how it goes.

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MR. DO-RIGHT (singing the rhyme):Three little kittensThey lost their mittens,And they began to cry.Oh, Mother dear,We sadly fearOur mittens we have lost.

What! Lost your mittens,You naughty kittens!Then you shall have no pie.Meow, meow, meow.You shall have no pie.

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4MR. DO-RIGHT: Lets talk to the kittens! We will ask them what happened to their mittens. (Everyone claps.)

MR. DO-RIGHT: How did you lose the mittens?

KITTEN ONE: We took them off when they got muddy. Then we chased some rats, and we forgot about our mittens.

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KITTEN TWO: When we got home, we didnt have our mittens to hang up to dry.

MR. DO-RIGHT: What did your mother do?

KITTEN THREE: She said we couldnt have pie. We should have taken better care of our mittens.

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MR. DO-RIGHT: The rhyme also says, The three little kittens, they found their mittens. Tell us about that.

KITTEN ONE: We wanted to solve our problem. We wanted to find the mittens. We went back to the playground. The mittens were there, on the ground.

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KITTEN TWO: Then we went home and washed our mittens. It was important to show Mother that we would try harder to take care of our things.

MR. DO-RIGHT: What did your mother do?

KITTEN THREE : She was pleased, or happy with us. Then she let us eat some pie.

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8MR. DO-RIGHT: What did you learn from this?

KITTEN ONE: Take care of your things.

KITTEN TWO: Solve problems yourself.

KITTEN THREE: Do the right thing!

MR. DO-RIGHT: Those are important ideas! Thank you, and good-bye!

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Talk About It

1. How did the Three Little Kittens end up getting pie?

2. What did the kittens learn?

Write About It

3. On a separate sheet of paper, write about a time you lost something. Tell how you felt.

Extend Language

Sometimes you can add an -s to a word to make it plural. For example: mitten changes to mittens.What are the plural forms of the following words from the story?

kitten rat pie mother thing

ISBN: 0-328-14151-8

Copyright Pearson Education, Inc.

All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.

This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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