We're off to see the wizard! Practice making inferences in literature with two sample paragraphs from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each passage provides questions about the pleasantness of the place it describes, and kids analyze the differences between each location.

Concepts

the wizard of oz, Writing Prompts, reading comprehension, inferences, making inferences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Expand the response questions into a short essay format, encouraging kids to include evidence from the passages
• A good addition to a reading assessment or homework assignment

Classroom Considerations

• Answer key only provides one-word answers

Pros

• Helpful when learning about tone or using context clues
• Comes with a simple answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.6.1 RL.7.1 RL.8.1