The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
When a friend makes a bad decision, what does it mean to stand by them?
Explore friendship, responsibility, and belonging with the four friends from The Wind in the Willows. Activities featuring art and poetry invite students to interpret the novel, make comparisons, and write new scenes.
Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows follows Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad through adventures that explore friendship, the desire for discovery, and how our choices affect others.
The accompanying activities invite students to compare characters’ actions, draw inferences from details, and write new scenes. Students also connect the novel with a painting by Alfred Sisley and a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The 12-page printable student PDF includes 16 main activities for individual work and classroom discussion.
Activities at a Glance
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