The+Temper+Tantrum+Book

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Introduction
Ask the children if they have ever seen someone have a temper tantrum. Have those who answered describe what the person was doing.

Read the book.

Ask the children to tell you some things that make them want to have a tantrum. (if a child has had tantrums and wants to discuss it, encourage them to share what they do instead of having a tantrum.

End by having children tell of some of the "yeses" that they love to hear from their parents.

Reading with Verbal Cloze
Read the Temper Tantrum again without stopping. Tell the children that this time when you pause you want them to finish the sentence or the phrase. The questions about the animals' temper tantrums are written in rhyming couplets. Pause for the children to fill in the second rhyming word. Also pause for the children to complete the sentence which tells what each baby animal hates.

Consider giving to book to a child to have them read it to someone at home.

Source: Raines, Shirley C., and Robert J. Canady. More Story Stretchers: More Activities to Expand Favorite Books. Maryland: Mt. Rainer, 1991.