Activity 1: Study the Story Pictures
- Before reading or listening to the story, study and describe the pictures accompanying the story.
Activity 2: Recite the Book Information
- Before and after reading or listening to the story, recite aloud the name of the author, the title of the book, and the title of the chapter.
Activity 3: Narrate the Story
- After reading or listening to the story, narrate the events of the story aloud in your own words.
Activity 4: Discuss the Story
- In the story, Marcella teaches the dolls two lessons. Never take what can be theirs for the asking, and don't do things that cause our loved ones unhappiness.
- Discuss polite ways to ask for something.
- Talk about how you can be considerate and keep from causing your loved ones unnecessary unhappiness.
Activity 5: Draw the Story
- In the story, one of the dolls is a jumping-jack. Draw a jumping-jack doll as shown below in the picture entitled 'The English Ladies' Dandy Toy', by Isaac Robert Cruikshank.