Where The Wild Things Are Book

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A classroom activity with the book Where the Wild Things Are, which will help students’ further understanding of this book, would be to turn the classroom’s reading section into a forest. The students would make their own wild thing costumes out of a paper plate and conduction paper. Once the costumes are done the students would play follow the leader like in the book.

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