TEACHER RESOURCES
SEQUENCE TWO
WILD AND TAME AIMS
To explore the difference between wild and tame animals, and the relationships humans have with each. To consider why humans want to tame animals and to explore how it feels when an animal is difficult to ‘train’. To bring alive the moments in the story when the wild animals taught Wild everything she needed. To reflect on how we learn or how we teach people to do new things.
RESOURCES Wild animals text (resource two), illustrations from the book.
STRATEGIES Discussion, STOP/GO, still image, thought tracking, adapting moments from the story, improvisation.
INTRODUCTION This sequence explores the difference between wild and tame animals, and the relationships humans have with each. The activities deepen children’s understanding of Wild’s life in the woods, living alongside the wild animals. Children will explore the difference between wild and tame animals, and what it means to try and train an animal (a puppy) to live in a domestic setting. The activities will enable children to make sense of and reflect on Wild’s escape back to the woods and the end of the story with the final line ‘Because you cannot tame something so happily wild...’
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