TIGER IS A SCAREDY CAT

CHALLENGING WORDS

brave
cries
dark
mommy
mouse
scared
stairs
strong
sunny
vacuum

SUMMARY

Tiger is a scared of dogs. Tiger is scared of trucks. Tiger is even scared of mice.
What a scaredy cat! Will Tiger ever learn to be brave? Find out in this funny story.

--- Conversation Questions---

(1) / Name the main character of this story.
(Answer) / Tiger.
(Follow Up) / Share your favorite part of the story.
(2) / Tell me all the things Tiger is scared of.
(Answer) / Dogs, trucks, vacuum cleaners, the dark, and mice.
(Follow Up) / Tell me something you are scared of.
(3) / Guess who Tiger finally helps get home?
(Answer) / The baby mouse.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever helped someone who was lost?
(4) / Tell me about a time you helped someone find something they lost.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever been lost and scared.
(5) / Define the word ”scared”
(Answer) / To fill with sudden fear.
(Follow Up) / List a time you where scared.
(6) / Find where Tiger hides from the vacuum cleaner.
(Answer) / Under the chair.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever hid under a chair?
(7) / List at least two things Tiger is scared of.
(Answer) / Possible: vacuum cleaner, and dark
(Follow Up) / Tell me if you are scared of the same things.
(8) / Hunt for two things Tiger told the mouse might scare him.
(Answer) / Truck and dogs
(Follow Up) / Name what scares you
(9) / Name what Tiger is.
(Answer) / A scaredy cat
(Follow Up) / Tell me if you are a scaredy cat.
(10) / Look in the book and show me how Tiger gets the mouse home.
(Answer) / On Tigers back.
(Follow Up) / Name someone who has ridden on your back.
Activities
1. / Make a list of all the things you are scared of.
2. / Draw a picture of the scariest thing you have ever seen.
3. / Write a couple sentences about something that scares you.
4.
Introductions
1. / Have a stuffed cat. Today we are going to read “Tiger is a scaredy cat” As we read think of a time you where scared.
2. / Have several items listed in the story like a toy truck, a stuffed dog, toy vacuum and a mouse. Let’s read “Tiger is a scaredy cat” and see if we get scared.
3. / Ask the children if you turn out the light for a second will that scare them.

Book Title: Tiger is a Scaredy Cat

Author: Joan Phillips / Illustrator: Norman Gorbaty
ISBN: 0-394-88056-0 / # of Text Pages: 29 AR :0.9 LEX: 80L
Building Oral Vocabulary
4 / vacuum cleaner / 12 / waa! waa! / 22 / thank you
Prediction Questions
2 / What do you think will scare Tiger next?
9 / What will happen when Tiger sees the mice?
14 / Will Tiger help the baby mouse find his family?

This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.