In Winter, When the Fields Are White

Lewis Carroll

Teacher card

Published: 1871, in Through the Looking-Glass
Length: 2 lines, 14 words, no long words
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: winter
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

“In winter, when the fields are white,I sing this song for your delight—

Lewis Carroll (died 1898), Through the Looking-Glass (1871), lines 2423–2424 of Project Gutenberg ebook #12. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

One link and one task line for each activity. Send a student the one you want them to do, or print this page and hand it round; each link has a QR code.

Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 2 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#ca-winter

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Link for the whole text

https://popplepoetry.com/find/carroll-in-winter-when-the-fields-are-white · popplepoetry.com