Target Age: 9–12 years
Duration: 13 weeks
Overview
Step into the world of Wilbur, Fern, and Charlotte to explore friendship, courage, language, and life’s changing seasons. This course supports the English curriculum by building close-reading habits, vocabulary, and analytical thinking. Students practise inference, compare characters, track themes, and examine how word choice and narrative structure shape meaning. With creative writing, visual responses, and optional multimedia tasks, learners grow confidence in independent study while developing empathy and ethical awareness.
Students Will:
- Strengthen reading comprehension and vocabulary through guided chapter work.
- Analyse characters, themes, and setting to understand how stories create meaning.
- Explore figurative language, imagery, and tone in descriptive and persuasive passages.
- Reflect on values such as kindness, courage, empathy, and growth.
- Develop creative and analytical writing skills using quotes as evidence.
- Make personal connections between literature and real-world experiences.
- Build independence as readers, thinkers, and storytellers.
