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By Kenneth Grahame School Radio by Kenneth Grahame Bernard Cribbins - reader Age: 7-11 The Wind in the Willows on bbc.co.uk/ schoolradio Programme notes by Caroline Garland These Teacher’s Notes are primarily intended for CDs: These programmes are available to order print. The content - with additional features - can (for UK schools only) on pre-recorded CDs from: also be found on the The Wind in the Willows pages of the School Radio website. BBC Schools’ Broadcast Recordings Tel: 0370 977 2727 Monday to Friday 0800 to The website includes transcripts of each episode 1800 as well as online focus images which can be displayed on your IWB or computer while Or visit the Order CD page of the BBC School listening. Go to: Radio website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g64pq www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ordercd Downloads/Podcasts: These programmes are available as downloads or podcasts for 60 days following transmission. Further information at the Podcasts page of the website: www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/podcasts © This publication may be copied or reproduced for use in Audio on demand: These programmes are schools and colleges without further permission. also available as audio on demand following transmission from the BBC iPlayer. Refer to the transmission dates below to fi nd out when programmes are available as podcasts and audio on demand. School Radio www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio © BBC 2014 School Radio The Wind in the Willows Contents: Introduction: Introduction 2 Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932: Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh on Assessment focus for reading 4 8 March 1859. He was the third child of an affl uent family and was related to several Primary framework links 5 well-know fi gures of literature. His great- grand-uncle was the poet and curate James Involving discussion and drama 6 Grahame. He was also the cousin of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), author 1: The river bank 7 - as Anthony Hope - of The Prisoner of Zenda Podcast / audio on demand from 17/01/2014 (1894). 2. The open road 9 Grahame’s father was appointed Sheriff- Podcast / audio on demand from 24/01/2014 Substitute of Argyllshire in 1860 and the family moved to Inverary. Grahame’s mother 3. The Wild Wood 10 died of scarlet fever in 1864 after the birth Podcast / audio on demand from 31/01/2014 of his younger brother Roland. His father, a heavy drinker, was incapable of caring for 4. Mr Badger 11 the children, so they were sent to Cookham Podcast / audio on demand from 07/02/2014 Dene in Berkshire to be brought up by their grandmother. 5. Dolce Domum 12 Podcast / audio on demand from 14/02/2014 This was a happy time for Grahame. The Thames river was nearby, fostering in him a lifelong love for the river and boating - 6. Mr Toad 13 infl uencing his story telling in The Wind in the Podcast / audio on demand from 28/02/2014 Willows. 7. Toad’s adventures 14 Grahame was educated at St Edward’s School, Podcast / audio on demand from 07/03/2014 Oxford (1868-75) but was unable to enter Oxford University due to his uncle refusing 8. The further adventures of Toad 15 to fi nance his studies. Instead, after a period Podcast / audio on demand from 14/03/2014 working for his uncle in London, he joined the Bank of England as a gentleman-clerk in 1879, 9. Like summer tempests came 16 rising to become Secretary to the Bank in his tears 1898. Podcast / audio on demand from 21/03/2014 Grahame contributed essays and stories to 10. The return of Toad 17 The Yellow Book and W. E. Henley’s National Podcast / audio on demand from 28/03/2014 Observer and his collections Pagan Papers, The Golden Age and Dream Days were well received by critics. 2 School Radio www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio © BBC 2014 School Radio The Wind in the Willows Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899 Please note that these downloads / and their only child, Alastair, was born the podcasts are available for 60 days only following following year. transmission. After that time the programmes are only available as streaming files (see below). Grahame created the character of Toad to amuse his son as a child, but it was not If you subscribe to the series your computer until 1908 that he published The Wind In will automatically search for each new episode The Willows, which had its origins in letters when you connect to the internet, ensuring that he had written to Alastair. By then he had you never miss a programme. It is a perfectly already retired from the Bank (in 1907) due suitable alternative to acquiring the programme to ill health. The book was not an immediate on pre-recorded CDs, provided you are happy success, but would achieve wider popularity not to use a CD player for playback. More thanks to the 1930 stage version, ‘Toad of information at the Podcast page of the School Toad Hall’ by A. A. Milne (1882-1956), whose Radio website: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) was created for his own son, Christopher Robin. www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/podcasts In 1916 Grahame edited The Cambridge Programmes are also available as audio on Book of Poetry for Children, but he published demand, ‘streamed’ from the BBC iplayer. no more work of his own. While the service is reliable, it is not as fl exible Grahame’s son, Alistair, died in an accident as acquiring the programme content from pre- in 1918. Thereafter he and his wife spent recorded CD or from the podcast/download. long periods in Italy. Kenneth Grahame died peacefully at his home in Pangbourne on 6 Feedback: July 1932. Your feedback is important to us and helps This abridgemet of The Wind in the us to develop the service. Letters, drawings Willows: and poems from the children are particularly welcome. This abridgement of the story is in 10 x 15 minute episodes, read by Bernard Cribbins. Please use the Contact us link from the website: The language is faithful to the original story, www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/contactusform though some of the punctuation has been changed throughout. Use the Notes alongside the episode transcripts and audio to get the most out of the series. Podcasts / downloads: These programmes are available to download following transmission or subscribe to as a podcast. This means that you can download each programme (for free) as an mp3 fi le, for playback either from a computer or from an mp3 player, such as an iPod. 3 School Radio www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio © BBC 2014 School Radio The Wind in the Willows Assessment focus for reading AF4 – identify and comment on the Levels 4 and 5, selected for structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational relevance to the text: features at text level Level 4 AF2 – understand, describe, select or some structural choices identifi ed with retrieve information, events or ideas simple comment, e.g. ‘he describes the from texts and use quotation and accident fi rst and then goes back to tell you reference to text why the child was in the road’ Level 4 Level 5 some relevant points identifi ed comments on structural choices show some comments supported by some generally general awareness of author’s craft, e.g. ‘it relevant textual reference or quotation, tells you all things burglars can do to your e.g. reference is made to appropriate house and then the last section explains section of text but is unselective and lacks how the alarm protects you’ focus Level 5 AF5 – explain and comment on writers’ most relevant points clearly identifi ed, use of language, including grammatical including those selected from different and literary features at word and places in the text sentence level comments generally supported by relevant Level 4 textual reference quotation, even when some basic features of writer’s use of points made are not always accurate language identifi ed, e.g. ‘all the questions make you want to fi nd out what happens AF3 – deduce, infer or interpret next’ information, events or ideas from texts simple comments on writer’s choices, e.g. Level 4 ‘“disgraceful” is a good word to use to show comments make inferences based on he is upset’ evidence from different points in the text, Level 5 e.g. interpreting a character’s motive from various features of writer’s use of language their actions at different points identifi ed, with some explanation, e.g. inferences often correct, but comments ‘when it gets to the climax they speak in are not always rooted securely in the text short sentences and quickly which makes it or repeat narrative or content more tense’ Level 5 comments show some awareness of comments develop explanation of inferred the effect of writer’s language choices, meanings drawing on evidence across the e.g.‘“inked up” is a good way of describing text, e.g. ‘you know her dad was lying how the blackberries go a bluey black colour because earlier she saw him take the as they ripen’ letter’ comments make inferences and AF6 – identify and comment on writers’ deductions based on textual evidence, e.g. purposes and viewpoints, and the overall in drawing conclusions about a character’s effect of the text on the reader feelings on the basis of their speech and Level 4 actions main purpose identifi ed, e.g. ‘it’s all about why going to the dentist is important and how you should look after your teeth’ 4 School Radio www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio © BBC 2014 School Radio The Wind in the Willows simple comments show some awareness Primary framework links: of writer’s viewpoint, e.g.
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