L Frank Baum Teacher Resources

Take a journey over the rainbow with a 24-chapter audiobook featuring the classic tale The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. After a tornado passes through her farm, a young girl named Dorothy finds herself in a colorful...

Readers are asked to use the provided graphic organizer to list the main idea and supporting ideas in a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

We're off to see the wizard! Practice making inferences in literature with two sample paragraphs from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each passage provides questions about the pleasantness of the place it describes, and...

Descriptive language can be used to create a vivid and imaginative setting. Create the chart suggested in this plan to track the descriptive language found in The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The class discusses the land beyond...

Learners explore the connection between analyzing a character and the character plot conflict. In this plot conflict lesson students role play two characters in the story, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Learners also pretend to be a...

Like Mark Twain's introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz warns readers not to search for a hidden message or moral in his tale. Yet many, such as Henry Littlefield, have done...

There's no place like home. Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz wonders if she will ever make it back to Kansas after a tornado drops her in a magical land. Scholars learn about the friends she meets along the way, and they have fun of...

In this books worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about popular children's books. Students complete 10 questions.

When do you use quotation marks around titles? Review the rules at the top of the page, and then let learners decide if the sentences that follow use the quotations correctly. An answer sheet is included. 

In this famous authors activity worksheet, students examine 25 author names and then put those names into alphabetical order.    

In this online/interactive prepositions instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to complete sentences with the correct preposition choices. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and check by clicking the Check button.

Learners investigate the major themes in fantasy maps, expand basic map reading skills, write imaginative narrative essays based on the OZ map, and create their own fantasy map detail based on a core map.

In this identifying point of view 2 learning exercise, 8th graders read 15 passages, identify the narrative perspective (from a list) then write an explanation for their choice.

This is the full text of the children's novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz in this full-text sequel to L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.

The full text of one of L. Frank Baum's sequels to The Wizard of Oz. This novel is about Glinda, the Good Witch of the West. Multiple digital formats of the full text are available.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work from the early 1900s is the third book from his Oz series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work from the early 1900s is the fifth book from his Oz series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work, The Tin Woodman of Oz from the early 1900s, is the twelfth book from his "Oz" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work from the early 1900s, Tik-Tok of Oz, is the eighth book from his "Oz" series.

Resource presents a short story by L. Frank Baum entitled "A Kidnapped Santa Claus."

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work titled The Enchanted Island of Yew is from the early 1900s and was published prior to the author's "Oz" series.

This is the complete text of the short story "The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger" by L. Frank Baum.