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: Act Out the Story
- Take turns playing the roles of Curdie following his string and the goblin's creatures, which uproot Curdie's pickaxe.
- Get a big ball of string or yarn.
- Secure the end of the string to an anchor in your house.
- The person playing 'Curdie' takes a convoluted path under tables, around couches, etc.
- The person playing a creature moves the anchor to another part of the house.
- 'Curdie' then follows the string back. Does Curdie end up at the original location?