Read & Respond: The Worst Witch Award-winning illustrator by Celia Warren (author), Jill Murphy (illustrator), and Mike Phillips (illustrator)

Raise literacy and attainment through a deep and active reading of a best-loved children’s story by a major author. The Read & Respond series takes growing readers into the heart of over 70 timeless stories, chosen to inspire reading for pleasure.

Each teacher resource book focuses on a popular children’s story, bringing it alive in a cross-curricular way. Explore every facet of the story through speaking and listening activities, debate and discussion, guided reading, creative writing, quizzes, games and crafts.

This teacher resource book contains everything you need to share The Worst Witch with your class:

Plot, character and setting activities
Speaking and listening activities
Guided and shared reading sessions
Extended writing projects
Differentiation and assessment ideas
Photocopiable activity pages

“Reading and writing for enjoyment are two of the most powerful ways of getting children reading. Read & Respond provides exactly this.” Michael Morpurgo

Product Details

Series

Read & Respond

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407118659

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

June 7th, 2010

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Read & Respond

Author/Illustrator

Celia Warren

Celia Warren wears two hats: on the one hand she is a published children’s poet, and on the other she is an experienced teacher and writer of teaching material for children. She writes regularly for ‘Child Education’ and she was Series Editor for ‘Writing Workshops: Poetry KS1’.

Jill Murphy

Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six she was stapling her own little storybooks together.

Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Three big London publishers turned it down so Jill put it in a drawer and went off to work in a children’s home and as a nanny.

When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. The Large Family stories are Jill’s other best known stories, picture books telling of the domestic chaos of a family of elephants.

She now lives in Cornwall with her son Charlie.

Activities & resources

Reviews

Hidemasa and Jamie
on 22 June 2011

The Worst Witch

The story is all about Mildred Hubble.We realy liked the story because she turned her friend into a pig.end
Andrew and Hui Jong
on 22 June 2011

The worst witch

We liked when Milderd Hubble fell on the ground. It was very excited and fun.
Tony
on 22 June 2011

The worst witch

Jill murphy creat The worst witch is a book about Mildred Hubble and MS hard broom and MS cackle they made a posion and Mildred disapird it was pink
Jessica and Elizabeth
on 22 June 2011

I love the worst witch

We loved the worst witch at first because the front cover looked interesting. Then we loved the part when Mildred turned Ethel into a pig!The exiting part was when they made circle then Mildred broomstick kicked her of her broomstick, then she held on to Mord's broomstick and everyone fell down.
Hannah & Jeanette
on 22 June 2011

Worst Witch

We like the Worst Witch because it is intresting and funny!When Mildred Hubble was making the potion, first she made it corectly but then she said to Maud that the potion must be dark green.When Mildred put the powder in the pot she sneeked to see the colour of the potion in Ethel's pot,it was light pink.
Minh
on 22 June 2011

The WORST WITCH

This story is about Mildred Hubble and everyone in her school .Mildred always made mistakes
and her tearcher is very nasty, she is called MS.Hardbroom.
Gia vinh and Thomas
on 22 June 2011

The Worst Witch

I think this book is a very good book and our class liked it, but Mildred Hubble is a bit bad because she always couse in trouble.
Jenny and Chenny
on 22 June 2011

The worst witch

When our teacher read us the story it was a bit exciting but when she read on,it was more exciting.
Alex and Shu
on 22 June 2011

The worst witch

This story is about Milldred Hubble.
Milldred Hubble is always trying her best but she always makes mistakes.
I like Milldred Hubble because she is honest and kind.
Milldred has a friend called Mord and a cat called Tabby.