Welcome to Chapter 24: “Home Again!” This final post in our Wonderful Wizard of Oz book study includes resources for analyzing theme, closure, and personal growth.
New to the series? Start with the Introduction to the Book Study for tips on pacing and classroom setup.
Learn how the Oz novel study is organized, with details on the full unit, free sampler, mentor sentences, and chapter handouts.
Mentor sentence lessons, student practice pages, and grammar-focused writing tasks are included.
Download the free handout for this chapter, complete with instructions and materials for the activities described here.
🏠 Chapter Summary
Chapter 24: “Home Again”
Dorothy safely returns to Kansas, where she is joyfully reunited with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Her journey through Oz has come to an end, and although she’s traveled far and faced many challenges, she’s finally home.
Chapter 24: “Home Again” Projects
Mentor Sentence
One way to turn classic literature into a powerful teaching tool is to pull mentor sentences straight from the text. Instead of random worksheets, students get to see grammar, punctuation, and style in action—inside a story they’re already reading.
Here is an example you can use right from Chapter 24 of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
📌 “And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em! I’m so glad to be at home again!”
Focus: Exclamations
Dorothy’s return home is filled with joy, and Baum captures that emotion through exclamations. In the mentor sentence, Dorothy cries out to Aunt Em with excitement, showing how punctuation can amplify tone. Exclamations make dialogue feel real and help readers hear the character’s voice.
Practice Prompt:
Write a sentence that uses an exclamation to show strong emotion.
Idea: I can’t believe it
Sample Answer:
I can’t believe it! We actually made it to the top of the mountain!
Journey Through Oz with Candy Colors
- Give each student a small page of Skittles.
- Students open their candy bags and sort by color. Small bags of Original Skittles in the US contain the five classic flavors: grape, lemon, strawberry, green apple, and orange. For this activity, the blue color of Munchkin County will be represented by the orange candy.
- On their map worksheet, students color each region of Oz with the correct candy color.
- For each color, students must connect their candies to events or characters from that region.
Example:
If a student has three red candies, they must name 3 Quadling-related details (e.g., Glinda’s palace, Hammer-Heads, journey through the South).
Art/Closure Idea
Students draw two “windows”: one showing Kansas and one showing Oz, and then choose where they’d want to live.
Focus Skills
Each chapter in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Novel Study includes a constructed response question and a skill-based graphic organizer. These two pieces are part of the full-paid unit, which includes comprehension questions, skill lessons, assessments, answer keys, and Google Slides versions.
The free handout linked below includes the activities from the blog post for this chapter. If you’d like the complete set of constructed responses and skill organizers for all 24 chapters, you’ll find them inside the full unit once it is released.
There’s no constructed response for this chapter, as it was combined with Chapter 23; however, this final installment includes a meaningful skill activity that students can use to compare the book to the movie.
Book vs. Movie T-Chart
Students explore how The Wonderful Wizard of Oz differs from its movie adaptation using a guided T-chart.
Categories include:
- Real vs. Dream
- Clothing and Accessories
- Villains vs. Lack of Villains
- Magical Women (e.g., Glinda vs. the Wicked Witch)
- Oz’s Appearances
- Oz’s Gifts
- Events in Book but Not in Movie
- Events in Movie but Not in Book
- Characters (Who’s included, Who’s changed)
Note: The full answer key spans three pages, so feel free to simplify or select key categories based on your students’ needs.
Click here to download the FREE Chapter 24 resource.
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2 comments
Hi Gay,
Thank you so much for sharing your Wizard of Oz book study. I am so excited to teach this unit to an accelerated 3rd grade reading group. I was able to download all the chapters and activities except for chapter 12. I would be so grateful and appreciate if you could e-mail me the chapter. This is truly a blessing!!
Thanks again for sharing!!!
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Here is the link for Chapter 12: https://bookunitsteacher.com/reading_oz/oz12.pdf