The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger

This is a story about wrestling with your identity as a savage beast and your desire to be good.
This story is an easy read, there should not be many new vocabulary words. This is another story by L. Frank Baum from the Land of Oz and is appropriate to share with children if you want to listen with them.
Before we read the story together, let's do Word Discovery - we will practice morphological analysis - fun!
If you can, please print the below Word Maps to fill out.

Let's watch the first video to discover things about words!

Now let's read this story!

The video has captions so you can follow along on the screen, but I encourage you to print the above pdf of the story so you can read it a second time (and maybe even a third!) time on paper. When reading on paper, you can highlight or underline interesting words and write your reactions in the margins! That's top-tier engaging with a text!

Engage further with this story! 
Now that you have read the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger take your learning further by participating in the chat below.
What is your personal reaction to this story? 
Did you enjoy it, why or why not?
Did you like the language the author uses?
Did any of the characters in the story remind you of someone you know or have heard of? 
What lesson do you think the great beasts learned by the end of the story?

Investigating Language
Choose another one or two words in the story and try to learn more about them. 
Look up the word in a dictionary, online or paper, and see if the word has any other meanings. 
If a word has an unusual spelling, search etymology of the word and find out where it comes from. 
Does the word have prefixes or suffixes? Can you use morphology to find out what it means and connect it to other words that share a morpheme? 
Search up synonyms or antonyms to the word.