Book Companion Reader:
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!
by Mo Willems
Kids will love this book companion reader to the book The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, by Mo Willems. This resource includes:
- The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog Ebook
- The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog Game
- The Pigeon Wants A Hot Dog
- Hot Dogs Pigeon Forge
- Pigeon Eats A Hot Dog
- The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog Activities
The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog Ebook
• Comprehension questions
• Create your own book cover
• Dear Pigeon letter (persuasive writing exercise)
• Character map
• Word search
• Fill in the blank
• Write your own sentence
• Pigeon and duckling share a hot dog. What are some foods that you enjoy sharing with a friend?
• Pigeon describes how great a hot dog tastes in so many ways. How ould you describe something that tastes really delicious?
• Story map
• Build a word
• Sight word hunt
• Survey – do you like to eat hot dogs?
• Word wall
• Answer key
• Packet includes writing lines for additional handwriting practice and exposes
students to different fonts
After play time, we read the book The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Then we ate hot dogs for lunch! (I forgot to take pictures!!) After lunch, we read The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? And made cookies together! We made my favorite chocolate chip recipe. THE PIGEON FINDS A HOT DOG! Mo Willems, Author. Hyperion $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1869-3. The pigeon knows the duckling's disingenuous game, but his suspicious, hooded eyes and frowning. When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. Then a very sly and hungry duckling enters the scene and wants a bite.
Explore the book The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! together with your students using this fun resource. You can also use a student’s answers to assess comprehension of the book. Use this resource to lead a classroom discussion, small-group sessions or as independent work or homework for those students that are ready. This would also make an excellent summer homework assignment.
In Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, the hero was subordinate to an unseen person who withheld bus-driving permission; here he has the dominant role and must placate his own pesky interloper, as he bargains with a duckling over a discarded hot dog. The tale, conveyed in the same pleasing emotive dialogue and gestures, opens with the pigeon's thrilled discovery of the title snack: 'Oooooh! A hot dog!/ Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!' Suddenly, a smaller yellow bird enters from the lower right corner and asks, in rounded lower-case letters, 'Is that a 'hot dog'?' 'Not a hot dog; my hot dog,' the pigeon sniffs, but his reply gives the duckling a rhetorical advantage. 'What do they taste like?' it wonders aloud. The pigeon knows the duckling's disingenuous game, but his suspicious, hooded eyes and frowning beak suggest uncertainty. The trickster, meanwhile, regards the pigeon through flirtatious blue eyes and coyly tilts its teardrop shaped beak. The pigeon glares at the audience ('Can you believe this guy!?!'), shouts 'That's it! ' in bold two-inch-tall caps and throws an eight-stage temper tantrum before splitting the wiener in half. 'Hmmmm, needs mustard,' says the duck. Through voice bubbles, body language, and expressive sizes and shapes of type, Willems crafts a comical give-and-take between the characters. He sketches both iconic birds in decisive crayony lines and tints the pages with smooth pastel hues. Readers of all ages won't be able to resist miming the sly conversation in this satisfying sequel. Ages 2-6. (May)
The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog Game
Release date: 04/01/2004
Genre: Children's
The Pigeon Wants A Hot Dog
