Mouse and the Motorcycle, The

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Mouse and the Motorcycle, The - Study Guide

Enjoy this tale of friendship and adventure, a new take on family vacations.

Written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key.

Get your students thinking and predicting with the use of before and after you read questions. Answer opinion questions to set up the reading. Understand difficult words that will be used in the book. Use proof from the novel to find out why Ralph liked motorcycles so much. Students describe an exciting adventure they were a part of. Create new idioms like "quiet as a mouse". Identify problems Keith encounters in a flow chart, leading to how he solves each problem.

Novel Summary: Meet Ralph, the perky and reckless mouse that lives at Mountain View Inn. Vacationing boy Keith Gridley brings out his motorcycle and through the mouse hole, Ralph falls in love with it. They become friends and share the motorcycle. Ralph gets into many entertaining situations including while on an errand to find an aspirin for his sick friend, he gets caught by two teachers but eventually escapes and he finds an aspirin. He brings it to Keith who gets better, and now that his family's vacation is coming to an end, he wants to bring Ralph home with him. Ralph, however, wants to stay at the Inn, since this is his home. Keith gives his motorcycle to Ralph to enjoy as the two part ways.

Note: The novel must be purchased separately. The Mouse and the Motorcycle