Crazy Miss Maisey's alphabet pets.

Crazy Miss Maisey's Alphabet Pets

Janine Scott

WALT: summarise information • I can find the main ideas in a text • I can identify the keywords in a text • I can use keywords and main ideas to summarise a text

What happened in the first 3 chapters that we read as a group? Crazy Miss Maisy was  a librarian at a school. She opened a store called Miss Maisey’s alphabet pets. A boy named billy wanted a pet “NO!’ said miss maisey ‘i don’t sell pets i lend them!” “Ok can i have a kangaro?” “Impossible! You need to go alphabetic. “ alligator?”

Answer the following questions using FULL sentences. Remember to use the book to help you answer the questions.

Alligator: because

Write three animals that were not suitable for Billy and his Mum. Why were they not right?

Alligator: because his mum was scared. Bat: because it bit billy!

Why was Billy feeling sad? (pg. 24).

His mother did not like the pets that billy brang.

What was wrong with the octopus? (pg. 26).

He kept on throwing balls at the man next door.

What does the author mean when he wrote “There was a porcupine, but everyone usually returned it the same day. It had a prickly personality!”? (pg. 29).

Why was Billy’s mother lying on the couch with a ice-bag on her head and cucumbers on her eyes? (pg. 36).

Because she had enough.

Do you think Billy was happy with his choice of the tadpole at the beginning? (pg. 40).

I think he thought it was boring.

How did the story end?

The tadpole turned into a toad.

What pet would you have chosen if you were Billy?

A magic unicorn.