Winnie the Witch
Winnie the Witch
In the Winnie the Witch project the students of year 2 have read about Winnie’s adventures in the Young Fiction books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul.
These books are quite challenging for ESL students because Winnie is using a lot of witch-slang. The project could also be done based on the picture book series — these are just as “cool” and will work well with lower intermediate learners. (A2+)
Find all the Winnie books here.
Find more cool things on the Winnie and Wilbur website.
After reading one or two books from this series each student produced a Winnie the Witch booklet. They wrote about Winnie’s house, Winnie’s hobbies, her favorite food, her pets and her fashion tastes and other things…
Have a look at some fun pages from this project. The focus here was writing for fluency and communicating ideas — accuracy was not our main concern. The learners showed their creative use of language and new vocabulary that they had picked up from their reading.
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Examples produced by my bilingual students:
Winnie’s fashion catalog by Sara and Nicole
Click on the image to open the file.
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