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
- Make a dungeon out of household items such as tables, chairs, sheets, and blankets.
- Have one or more people play dungeon prisoner and the others play dungeon guard.
- As a guard, what must you do to care for your prisoners?
- Perhaps give them plain bread and water to eat and drink.
- As a prisoner, you must follow the guard's orders.
Switch roles after a while. Which role to you prefer playing?
- How does it feel to have control or power over others?
- How does it feel to be powerless?