INTERACTIVE READ ALOUD
Read aloud questions
1. In your book, it says if we open up our lids, nothing good will happen.
→ What is your “lid”?
2. Imagine if you could open up your head.
→ What would you see inside?
→ Would it be tomato soup, or something else?
3. Pretend a tin can did have a brain.
→ What would it think about with its brain?
4. It’s true! You do have water inside of you.
→ Can you guess how much of you is made up of water? (Answer: You are more water than anything else. About 75%!)
5. Poor swimming pool. It does not have feet and cannot run away from all the people splashing inside it.
→ Can you draw a picture of a swimming pool with feet that’s running?
→ What is it running away from?
6. Mushrooms don’t have anything to say because they don’t have brains or mouths but you are a human, and you have both a brain and a mouth.
→ How do your brain and mouth work together to help you talk?
7. Imagine if you could dig as fast as a digger.
→ Where would you dig to?
8. Hyenas are more like us than tin cans, swimming pools, and mushrooms. But they can’t tell stories like we can, because they are not human.
→ Do you like to tell stories?
→ What kinds of stories do you like to tell?
→ What kinds of stories do you like to hear?
9. A hyena can’t make up a story about you, but you can make up a story about a hyena.
→ What would happen in your hyena story?
10. Look at the page where there is a delivery guy, a runner, and an old lady to find out how these humans are alike.
→ Do they each have a brain and a mouth?
→ Do they come from other humans?
→ Do they need food and water to grow?
→ Can they all tell a story?
→ How else might they be alike?
11. At the end of your book, the child says, “I would rather be like you than like a mushroom.”
→ Do you think that is a funny thing to say?
→ Would you rather be like the child in the book or like a mushroom?
