Tom's Midnight Garden - Chapters 11 and 12 - Word Workshop

The 'Tom's Midnight Garden' Word Workshop is an educational activity designed to enhance vocabulary skills for KS2 students, focusing on chapters 11 and 12 of the book. This workshop provides an interactive way for students to engage with a variety of words, exploring their meanings, usage in sentences, modifications through prefixes or suffixes, and identifying synonyms and antonyms. For instance, the word 'cunning' may be described as showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit. A sentence using the word could be, "The cunning fox quietly approached the hen house." Modified, it could become 'cunningly' or 'uncunning'. Synonyms might include 'sly' or 'crafty', while antonyms could be 'honest' or 'straightforward'.

Another example is the word 'wistfully', which conveys a feeling of vague or regretful longing. A sentence might read, "She gazed wistfully out of the window, dreaming of faraway places." This word could be modified to 'wistfulness' or 'wistfully'. Synonyms for 'wistfully' include 'longingly' or 'yearningly', whereas antonyms could be 'indifferently' or 'uninterestedly'. Each word in the workshop is dissected in a similar manner, allowing students to deepen their understanding of language and its nuances, which is essential for their literacy development.