Activity 1: Recite the Book Information
- Recite the name of the author, the title of the book, and the title of the chapter.
Activity 2: Narrate the Story
- Narrate the events aloud in your own words.
Activity 3: Study the Story Picture(s)
- Study the story picture(s) and verbally describe the relation to the story.
Activity 4: Play Chuck-Farthen (Pitching Pennies)
- Required: Several pennies per person.
- Parent Note: Suggest making it clear to children you are playing for fun, not for keeps.
- Children line up 3 feet from a wall.
- On the 'Go' signal, the children all pitch a penny at the wall, trying to get their penny to land closest to the wall.
- The penny may bounce off the wall, roll to the wall, or be knocked closer to the wall by another child's throw.
- The player who lands the closest to the wall, 'wins' all the other pennies pitched in the wall.
- Play continues until one child has 'won' all of the pennies.
- Once the children become skilled at a distance, they can move back to try again from a longer distance.
Activity 5: Act Out a Passage
Practice acting out the following passage, with drama and feeling.
- Hesitate, draw back, come forward again, and throw yourself on your knees and hold out your clasped hands in supplication. (Ben Gunn)
- 'Who are you?' (Jim Hawkins)
- 'I'm poor Ben Gunn, I am; and I haven't spoke with a Christian these three years.' (Ben Gunn)
Activity 6: Complete Written Narration
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 46 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'
Activity 7: Complete Copywork and Dictation
- Click the crayon above, and complete pages 46-47 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'
Activity 8: Color the Image
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 47 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'
Activity 9: Answer Written Review Questions
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 48 of 'Fourth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'