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: Compose a Song for the Story
Make up your own number rhyming song to scare away the goblins. Complete each ellipsis (...) with your own lyrics.
- One, two, ...
- Three, four, ...
- Five, six, ...
- Seven, eight, ...
- Nine, ten, ...
Instructors - to help children, offer the below sample lists of rhyming words.
- Two: Shoe, glue, boo, boo-hoo, zoo, flue, flew, coo, blew, blue, chew, clue, cue, dew, do, goo
- Four: Boar, bore, for, ore, oar, pour, roar, score, lore
- Six: Bricks, chicks, clicks, cricks, flicks, hicks, licks, nicks, picks, sticks, ticks, tricks, wicks
- Eight: Ate, bait, crate, date, fate, freight, gate, gait, grate, great, hate, late, plate, state, wait
- Ten: Been, den, glen, hen, men, pen, then, when, wren, yen, zen