Tiktok and the Nome King: Reading Together.

We are reading the short story Tiktok and the Nome King by L. Frank Baum together. This is an amusing little tale of the impetuousness of nomes in power - it is an easy and fun read that expands the world of the land of Oz introduced in The Wizard of Oz. If you have children, this story is appropriate to listen to with them.

Check out Word Discovery for this story: here.

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!

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