The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Author: C.S. Lewis

Lexile Score: 940

Genre: Fantasy

Maturity level: Third grade and up.

Pages: 189  Chapters: 17  Average Chapter Length: 11 pages (including a picture or two per chapter)

Theme: Good vs. evil, trust, religion,

Project ideas:  I brought in some actual Turkish Delight to have the students try - make sure to use REAL lemon extract :)  It was good, but could have used more flavor.  I had the students make paper dolls of the Pevensie kids, coloring them on one side and writing details about the character (character maps) on the other.  Not too exciting, but it worked ok.

First Line: Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.

Main Character: Despite the ambiguity of the first sentence, they are: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy

Review in 25 words or less:  Timeless classic.  Is there a childhood fantasy missing?  Let's see: save the world, ride a lion, become king or queen, battle centaurs, know more than all the adults do; check, check, double-check.

Grade: A+

A great story with so much to visualize.  I forgot how the last chapter is full of more complicated, proper "King-and-Queenly" english.  I read it aloud, I wondered how that chapter would have been grasped by my students had they read it alone.  Still my favorite: Giant Rumblebuffin - a personality that lives up to the name.

Author: C.S. Lewis

Lexile Score: 940

Genre: Fantasy

Maturity level: Third grade and up.

Pages: 189  Chapters: 17  Average Chapter Length: 11 pages (including a picture or two per chapter)

Theme: Good vs. evil, trust, religion,

Project ideas:  I brought in some actual Turkish Delight to have the students try - make sure to use REAL lemon extract :)  It was good, but could have used more flavor.  I had the students make paper dolls of the Pevensie kids, coloring them on one side and writing details about the character (character maps) on the other.  Not too exciting, but it worked ok.

First Line: Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.

Main Character: Despite the ambiguity of the first sentence, they are: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy

Review in 25 words or less:  Timeless classic.  Is there a childhood fantasy missing?  Let's see: save the world, ride a lion, become king or queen, battle centaurs, know more than all the adults do; check, check, double-check.

Grade: A+

A great story with so much to visualize.  I forgot how the last chapter is full of more complicated, proper "King-and-Queenly" english.  I read it aloud, I wondered how that chapter would have been grasped by my students had they read it alone.  Still my favorite: Giant Rumblebuffin - a personality that lives up to the name.