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: Draw the Story
- See below a picture of stalactites in a cave. Note how they look like stone icicles hanging down from the ceiling.
- Stalactites hang from a cave ceiling. You can remember this, because the word 'stalactite' contains the letter 'c' for 'ceiling.'
- Draw a cavern full of stalactites.