Woolvs In The Sitee
Margaret Wild
This story is about a young homeless boy named Ben, who lives by himself and develops a
friendship with a woman upstairs. Ben’s world is one of woolves, it’s a
frightening and dark place where he faces his fears daily and
even adults find it hard to live in. As the story develops we get a
glimpse of the world from his point of view and we are invited to see through his eyes,
travel down the roads he walks, see the things that frighten him and,
eventually are invited to join him on his adventure to face up to the
things that might scare and frighten others.
Margaret Wild has chosen to write this story in a way that many would consider to be different from the norm, she used phonetic spelling throughout the story (city = sitee, wolves = woolvs) and supporting this with emotive and haunting illustrations. This story could be used in a lesson that is based around phonetic spelling, having the students go through the pages and see if they could find the words spelt that way and see if they can spell them correctly. Due to the story line and the emotive and haunting illustrations used this would only be appropriate for students in years 6/7.
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