Country Mouse invites her friend, City Mouse to visit her in the country. City Mouse does not enjoy the country and convinces Country Mouse to return to the city with her. Country Mouse enjoys the fine surroundings and foods until a noisy party burst into the room and the mice must scurry and hide. Country Mouse decides to return to her home in the country as she prefers her poor food in “peace and quiet” to the richest feast where “Fear and Danger lie waiting”.  (McGraw-Hill Open Court, 2002)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.