Product Description

The LitWits Explorer’s Guide for The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

Everything in this “experience guide” comes from our unique sensory workshops on The Railway Children. It’s packed with hands-on ways to get into the characters’ shoes. When kids see, feel, hear, taste, smell, and DO what the characters did, they understand more. Better yet, they want to read more.

LitWits Explorer’s Guides are web pages packed with downloadables—templates, activity aids, academic handouts, and more. (Here’s a sample, for a different book.) Because our guides live online, we can link you to useful info and audiovisuals. And you’ll always have the very latest updates! A PDF version is included for easy printing.

The LitWits Explorer’s Guide for The Railway Children includes:

• sensory prop suggestions, with photos
• creative project and activity ideas, with photos
• printable templates, excerpts, and activity prompts
• takeaway topics, to fuel meaningful conversations
• printable handouts for creative writing, the narrative arc, setting, and more
• research and audiovisual links, for one-stop prep and homework help
• great quotes from the book, where copyright allows

Want a glimpse of our sensory style? Scroll down to get a free idea and template!

Ages/Grades
This guide is adaptable to a wide range of ages. (See the Ways to Use tab for classroom and homeschool uses.) We find 8-12-year-olds consistently “ready to LitWit,” but you know best what your kids are ready for, interested in, and capable of.

Common Core Alignment
The LitWits experience of this book is jam-packed with carefully integrated lessons — but they’re embedded in FUN, so kids don’t feel “taught.”  At a bare minimum, the use of this guide helps meet these Common Core goals:

THIRD GRADE Common Core Alignment
FOURTH GRADE Common Core Alignment
FIFTH GRADE Common Core Alignment
SIXTH GRADE Common Core Alignment

Please note that LitWits® is a registered trademark of LitWits Workshops, LLC.  All LitWits Explorer’s Guides are copyrighted and may be used for non-commercial educational purposes only.

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We’ll send you our Setting Notes template, with a page of teacher tips. It’s a fun, sensory way to explore a story’s setting!