TEACHER RESOURCES
SEQUENCE ONE
CONTRASTING WORLDS AIMS
To introduce the story of Wild and to encourage and build on children’s curiosity about it. To explore the contrasting settings for the story - outside in the woods and inside in the doctor’s house - using music and movement. To introduce the idea of the woods as Wild’s home – the place she feels safe and understood. To introduce the character of the doctor and explore his motivations for taking Wild away from the woods.
RESOURCES Front cover of Wild by Emily Hughes, contrasting music, loose script for teacher in role (resource one).
STRATEGIES Discussion, STOP/GO, still image, creative movement, whole class image, teacher in role.
INTRODUCTION This sequence introduces children to the contrasting settings in the story of Wild – outside in the woods (where Wild is found and has lived all her life), and then inside, in the house of the doctor and his wife who take her in. The music and movement activity enables children to explore Wild’s perspective of the differences between these two environments, building on the idea of the woods as adapting, forgiving, flexible and responsive, in contrast to the hard, angular and rigid feel of the inside of the doctor’s house. At the end of the sequence children will be introduced to the first part of the story and to the character of the doctor (teacher in role). Meeting the doctor at this point in the narrative allows children to hear his possible motivations for capturing Wild before they find out what happens to her inside his house. It gives children the opportunity to express their own thoughts and feelings about Wild’s life in the woods and hear about the doctor’s reasons for wanting to take her away from it.
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