The story of "A Very Small Worm"
A simple text with attractive, interactive illustrations and colors. Through this text, children learn about animal habitats, such as a fox's burrow and a chicken's nest. It also explains the animal food chain and how some animals feed on each other. We find the fox trying to catch up with the chicken to eat it, and the chicken chasing the worm. The story also conveys a general idea: sometimes small size is an advantage that benefits you and protects you from danger.
Discussion questions:
- What do you like to eat chicken?
- Imitate the movement of a chicken flapping its wings.
- Imitate the sound of a chicken.
What covers a chicken's body?
- What does the chicken give us?
- What does a fox like to eat?
- What covers a fox's body? Imitate the fox's movement.
- Why do we say that the fox is treacherous in stories?
- What does a worm eat? Imitate the movement of a worm.
- After you read the story, would you rather be big like a fox or small like a worm? Why?
- Why was the worm happy because it was small?