Activity 1: 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 2: Narrate the Story
- After reading or listening to the story, narrate the events aloud in your own words.
Activity 3: Recite a Passage from the Chapter
Practice reciting aloud the following passage, with drama and feeling.
- 'Is the Wicked Witch really destroyed?' asked the Voice.
- 'Yes,' Dorothy answered, 'I melted her with a bucket of water.'
- 'Dear me,' said the Voice, 'how sudden!'
Activity 4: Dictate a Sentence from the Chapter
- Step 1: Instructors write the sentence, and children copy it.
- Step 2: Instructors say the sentence aloud, and children write it.
- Sentence: You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Activity 5: Create a Map of the Story
- Create a huge map of all the places Dorothy encounters over the novel, adding places as they are introduced in each chapter.
- Get a large roll of paper or fasten large pieces of paper together as you go.
- For chapter 15, draw the little old man Oz in the Emerald City.
Activity 6: Map the Story
- When the story begins, Dorothy lives in Kansas with her aunt and uncle. Oz is from nearby Omaha, Nebraska.
- Find Kansas (KS) and Nebraska (NE) on the map of the United States below. Are the two states close to one another?