Reading Learning at Home
Thank you for continuing to support your children at home through this challenging time. Here is a ‘learning menu’ with some comprehension and follow up activities
Find it questions.
How can Winnie see Wilbur when he is
on a black chair?
What happens one day to make Winnie
decide to cast her spell?
How many times does Winnie change
Wilbur?
What happens when Winnie puts Wilbur
outside?
What is Winnies magic word?
Follow up tasks. Writing
Make up a new adventure for Winnie –
you could use the sheet on the website
to help with your ideas.
Write the ingredients for a disgusting
spell or potion.
Write a letter from Winnie to Wilbur
to say sorry for turning him lots of
different colours.
Sort out the jumbled up sentences
using the sheet on the website.
that link to a Storytime with the Shakesbies story.
Winnie The Witch
Understand it questions.
In the story it says that Winnie was “furious”
can you think of another word for furious?
What word tells us that Wilbur felt silly when
he was rainbow coloured?
What word tells us that Wilbur felt sad when
he was at the top of the tree?
Making Links
Do you know any other Winnie stories?
Have you got a cat?
Have you got a magic wand? What spell would
you make?
Think about it questions Sequence it questions
How does Winnie feel about Wilbur’s Can you retell the story in
problem? the right order?
Why do you think Winnie liked all the
things in her house to be black?
Why was Wilbur not allowed to sleep on
the bed?
Why couldn’t Winnie see Wilbur even with
his eyes open when he was in the grass?
Follow up tasks. Creative
Design a new hat for Winnie.
Make up a disgusting potion to make a spell.
Draw or paint a picture of Wilbur making him lots of
different colours – what is your favourite colour?
Find the rainbow song on youtube and sing along.
Dress up as a wizard or a witch.
Make a potion using things you can find in the garden. Don’t
eat it though!
Use lego or dulpo to build a colourful house for Winnie and
Wilbur.