CHALLENGING WORDS
basketdragon
halfway
haunted
instead
mud – puddle
muddle
roaring
tickled
umbrella
SUMMARY
Mrs. Muddle Mud Puddle thought that she was at her friend Bert’s house, but instead she went to a haunted house and encountered dragons, lions, bats, ghost, and a skeleton whom she thought was Bert.--- Conversation Questions---
(1) / What was the setting of this story?(Answer) / A haunted house.
(Follow Up) / Name the main character.
(2) / Imagine how the dragon felt when Mrs. Muddle Mud-puddle patted it on the head.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / How would you have reacted to meeting a dragon?
(3) / Explain why Mrs. Muddle Mud-puddle wasn’t scared of the things in the haunted house.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Are haunted houses real? Why or why not?
(4) / Suppose you accidentally went into a haunted house, what would you do?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow up) / Would you tell anyone about it?
(5) / Define “flapping”.
(Answer) / To wave up and down.
(Follow Up) / Use the word flapping in a sentence.
(6) Tell me where Mrs. Muddle Mud-puddle was supposed to be going.
(Answer) To her friend Bert’s house.
(Follow up) Describe what you think Bert’s house would have been like.
(7) Find what she thought the bat was.
(Answer) An umbrella.
(Follow up) Where do you usually find bats?
(8) Look for what Mrs. Muddle Mud-puddle was taking to her friend, Bert.
(Answer) Cakes.
(Follow up) What was she taking them in?
(9) Search for what she did with the ghost.
(Answer) Hung it at the window for a curtain.
(Follow up) Do you think the ghost was surprised at this? Why?
(10) Name what she thought was Bert.(Answer) A skeleton.
(Follow up) What did she say about Bert and his house ?
Activities
1. / Draw a confused picture similar to the book. For example: a fish catching a person.
2. / List each object that Mrs. Muddle Mud-Muddle mistook for something else, include what she thought it was.
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4. / Write a story about someone that you know who gets confused.
Describe how the visit may have went if she had really went to her friend Bert’s house.
Introductions
1. / Create pictures that are confusing and back wards. Have the look over the pictures and tell you what is wrong. Ask the children if this was confusing for them. Tell them that our book today is about something confusing.2.
3. / Have the children close their eyes and let them feel two or three objects in a paper sack. Ask the children to think of other way that these objects could be used instead of the way they were intended. Tell them that in our story today, we will read about a woman who takes a walk and discovers things are not always what they seem!
Have a picture of a haunted house and a picture of a nice, normal house. Ask children which one they would rather visit. And if they think someone would actually live in the haunted house. Today in our story a lady who going to visit her friend, but by mistake she goes into a haunted house, let’s read and find out what happens.
Book Title: Mrs. Muddle Mud-puddle
Author: Joy Cowley / Illustrator: Mary DavyISBN: 0-7802-4996-8 / # of Text Pages: 8 AR: 1.0 LEX: N/A
Building Oral Vocabulary
3 / haunted / 11 / curtain / 12 / skeleton
Prediction Questions
5 / How do you think the dragon will react to Mrs. Muddle Mud-Puddle?
7 / What else do you think she will see?
12 / What do you think will happen next?