The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy book set in a land that exists by going through a door in a wardrobe. There is an evil witch in a land called Narnia, and a lion that is king. The book is filled with all different kinds of talking animals and some animals that do not even exist in real life. It is a very interesting book to read with it's great characters and settings.
C.S. Lewis does and excellent job leading the reader into this fantasy world where you step through a wardrobe and enter an enchanted land of mystical creatures. The illustrations that are in the book are black and white sketches of some of the scenes and characters in the book.
Some great motivational activities would be to have the class draw a picture of what Narnia would look like to them since there are not a lot of illustrations in the book. Another activity could be to have the class act out a small play in the classroom set to the novel.
Reader Response Questions:
1. What was your favorite character in the book and why?
2. Would you have done anything different at the end of the book? If so how would you have changed it?
References
Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child (7th ed.). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.
Lewis, C. S., & Baynes, P. (19941978). The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. New York, NY:
HarperTrophy.
Hello Melissa,
ReplyDeletegreat description of a book that I would love to read.Two other reader response questions could be the following:
1)Imagine that you go through a wardrobe door like the one in the book and enter a fantasy world.What does this world look like?
2)What do you think that Narnia symbolizes?