Ghosts at the Castle - Practice Book von Peter Morris

Release date: 2026
Edition: 3. revised edition, 2026 (clipbound)
Publisher: Pädagogische Forschungsstelle Stuttgart
Series: Ghosts at the Castle
Volume: 2
Author(s): Peter Morris
Weight: 250 g
Scope: 64 Seiten
Format (W x H x D): 21 x 29,7 x 0,5 cm

Table of contents

Reading sample

The updated edition will be published in October 2026

This revised edition of the practice book for the reader “Ghosts at the Castle” contains much new material for today's Waldorf classes. It offers a wide-ranging and extensive selection of exercises keyed to the story text, which teachers can choose from to suit their class. They include a broad range of grammar work suitable for this age group.

Why practice books?

- The practice books are wide-ranging collections of material.

- Here the teacher is in command, not the author’s programme.

- A real and extensive choice lets you find just what best suits a particular class.

- So these practice book are NOT ‘one size fits all’

- Different classes can work with completely different selections from the things on offer.

Practice books bring more space, more material and more variety

All the grammar the class needs is now included

- This grammar is not just ‘new material’.

- Basics and revision exercises mean that colleagues have material for classes — or individual children — who need extra work or even remedial exercises.

- All of this material is still keyed, as far as possible, to the reader text.

More structure and different kinds of exercise

- The larger page size of A4 means that we can structure the material more visibly.

- And the format makes it easier to add different types of exercise, such as tables (see the ‘Crash Courses’).

More support for teachers, but still with great freedom of choice

- The practice book can offer welcome support to less-experienced colleagues and those (like many class teachers) whose primary work-focus is not language teaching.

- At the same time, those who want to are free to chart their own course.

Easier marking

- Practice book speed (to an extent ...) the drudgery of marking.

- Question and answer are now together, and children are freed from copying down questions. No more hopping between reader and children’s work to double-check a point ...

- The Teacher’s Key is a free pdf-download. Even experienced colleagues may find this a help, and others will welcome the support and overview it offers.

‘Inner differentiation’ in classes is easier

- For most teachers, practice books will make ‘inner differentation’ in classes more achievable.

- Fast-track students can more easily work ahead and at their own pace.

- And the similar structure of many exercises provides helpful support to those moving more slowly.

More overview and clarity for parents

- Many parents welcome workbooks. Work is in one place, and it’s easier to see how students are progressing.

- In special cases such as long illness or extreme laziness, the state of the practice book makes an immediate impression on parents. In contrast, an empty exercise book is seen as proving nothing!

- The practice book also makes it easier for parents to help their children. No more complicated combinations of exercise books and photocopies, where no one but the teacher can see how things fit together! An exaggeration, of course, but still, more clarity usually pleases parents.

Peter Morris

Der britische Waldorflehrer publiziert, neben seiner Unterrichtstätigkeit in Engelberg, Lektüren und Workbooks für den Englischunterricht. Außerdem inszenierte er zahlreiche englische Klassenspiele.

Geboren in London; Studium in Cambridge und Emerson College (Großbritannien).

Seit 1972 an der FWS Engelberg als Sprachlehrer für Klassen 1–12 sowie alle Abschlussklassen.

Zahlreiche englische Klassenspiele in Unter-, Mittel- und Oberstufe, darunter The Wedding at Ghostmoor Castle, Macbeth, Animal Farm, A Christmas Carol sowie die Operette HMS Pinafore von Gilbert and Sullivan....