What they actually said ...

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Richard Durant
What they actually said ...
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Reading skills: Comprehension
Resource type
Worksheet
Student activity
Genre
Unseen
Time period
Post-1900
Focus
Fiction
Genre
Fiction

Help students become more confident in approaching early 20th-century texts with this excerpt from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. The extract features a conversation between Toad and a gipsy, which forms the focus of the reading comprehension task which follows.

Students explore the use of speech in narrative by identifying the reported and direct speech in the text extract, before performing in the role of one of the characters.

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