Mat the Rat

Book 35

Review Words:
nut
rat
set

Plot Summary

Mat the Rat gets ready to go to the zoo and takes fish and peanuts along for the animals. While he feeds the seal, a baby elephant tries to reach for a peanut. Mat begins to tease the baby elephant. Mama Elephant is angry. She takes the nuts away from Mat. But Mat soon becomes friends with Mama Elephant and her baby.

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"I am Mat the Rat."

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"I am a rat
with a hat."

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"I need this fish
and that fish."

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"I need this nut and that nut.
I will set them in this."

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"I need a sheet."

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"I will set the fish and the
nuts in the sheet."

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"I run with them."

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"What is it?"

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"I am Mat the Rat.
See the fish and the nuts."

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"He sees the nuts.
He is sad.
He needs nuts."

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The nuts fell.
Then the hat fell.

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The sheet is on the rat.
See them with the nuts
and the hat.

13 / 13

"See the sun set.
He needs the sheet.
I need the hat."

Story Questions

1. p.6— What is Mat putting in his sheet?
2. p.8— Where is Mat going?
3. p.10— How is Mat teasing the baby elephant?
4. p.11— What did Mama Elephant do?
5. p.13— What is Mat doing to make the elephants happy?