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Wednesday 5 March 2014

Must Read Mentor Text - Willy the Wizard

Linking up (a little late) with Collaboration Cuties' Must Read Mentor Text link up.


Just coming to the end of an English unit based around the story 'Willy the Wizard' by former Children's Laureate, Anthony Browne. The children love this unit every year (possibly because its an incredibly boy friendly book, even with my two-thirds girls class!) so thought I would share some of my favourite activities I do over the unit. 

Synopsis
Willy the Chimp loves football, but doesn't have any boots. One day he meets a mysterious stranger who gives him some 'magic' boots. Willy is fantastic! But on the day of the match, he forgets the boots, will he still be able to play as well?

Lessons
Verbs
Look at all the different words for Willy's football skills. Get out onto the playground with some footballs, show off our mad football skills, then write as many verbs to describe what we have been doing as possible on post-its.

Similes
Using different pictures of the setting (my favourite is the one of the old pie factory) get the children to create simple similes to describe what they can see. Once they get the structure of a simile, they all have really interesting views for comparison.

Story map
Draw a story map of the main events from the book. Orally rehearse this together along with actions to help them learn the structure of the story. Then help them change character/setting/events to map out their own imitated version of the story.


2 comments:

  1. This looks like a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing how your use the text with your students. I also love Anthony Browne's Voices in the Park... Just found your blog today through the linky and am a new follower!

    Smiles,
    Sarah @ Hoots N' Hollers

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  2. This looks really cute!! I have never seen this book! I will definitely have to check it out!! It looks like you can do a lot with it! Thanks for linking up!
    Amanda
    Collaboration Cuties

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