Memoirs of a Hamster

 


About the Author 

Vocabulary 

Read the Book

Listen Aloud

Watch YouTube Video

WorkSheets


Reading Comprehension 

Skill & Strategy

Activity,

Phonics

Parent/Teacher Activity Guides


Additional Reading


About the Author 



Read the Book



Listen Aloud



Watch YouTube Video


YouTube Embed Code 

WorkSheets 


Vocabulary 

*  Look up and write the Definitions in your notebook. commotion, concentrate, hydrated, marathon, memoir, shimmied 

Reading Comprehension 


*  There are 14 nights covered in this book. If the book starts on a Monday, what day would it end? When Seymour wrote his will, how many items in total did he leave to his family?


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1.Have you heard the expression, “The grass isn’t always greener on the other side”? What does this mean? Seymour gives up something pretty great in the search of something better, but does he find it? 2.Why does Pearl keep telling Seymour about the rest of the house? 3.What was the “sweetest thing” Seymor has ever heard? 4.What makes Seymor the “luckiest hamster in the world”? 5.Do you think Seymour changed by the end of the book? How? 6.What do you think a hamster's dream cage would be like?

WorkSheets Activity, 

Compare and contrast Memoir of a Goldfish and Memoir of a Hamster 

*   Write your own Memoir, https://chalkboardpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2-3-Memoirs-of-a-Goldfish-Writing-Version-3.pdf



Additional Subjects Reading

*   Science-Animals. Encyclopedia

*Research hamsters. What do they like to eat? What is their natural habitat? How do you care for a hamster as a pet? What does it need? 

• Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon • Humphrey’s Creepy-Drawly Camping Adventure by Betty G. Birney • Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian • My Hamster by Norman D. Graubart

Parent/Teacher Activity Guides

https://www.teachingbooks.net/media/pdf/YHBA/MemoirsofaHamster.pdf 

https://www.comprehensionconnection.net/2014/03/making-memoirs-memorable.html

Memoir of a Goldfish Activity https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56663dee841abafca76d6f46/t/5b16ef7488251be40130da60/1528229749753/Memoir+of+a+Goldfish+formated.pdf

http://iwanttoread.org/pdf/GUIDE_9781627530088.pdf

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