Learn about the New book:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 Fantastical Facts from the New Book
chapter-by-chapter synopsis
 day by day calendar of events in the book
 differences between the British and American versions 

 To learn more       

The Harry Potter series has been written by J.K. Rowling.
The main character is Harry, a boy with magical powers who was orphaned at an early age and raised by his relatives, the Dursleys.
The story begins when Harry is 11 years old and receives a letter of invitation to attend a school of wizardry called Hogwarts Academy.

                                                           

There are six books in the Harry Potter series:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Read about the Harry Potter books. Click here.




 


Learn about the author of the Harry Potter series

In the following link you will read about J.K. Rowling the author of the Harry Potter books.
1. Choose 5 details that are especially interesting to you and write a fact
sheet about the author.
Click here to read.
2.Write your draft here:

3.Display in your English room. 
.Take a quiz on J. K. Rowling. Click here.

Chamber

The following link is a Discussion Chamber about Harry Potter.
Answer the question presented and submit it. Click here.

 

 

 
   

Quizzes:
Lots of Quizzes from the BBC 
Do you think you know books #1&2 well? Click here.
Harry Potter games. Click here.
Take a quiz on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Click here. 
Play the Wizard challenge.
 The game goes until you get 3 questions wrong. Click here.
Click here for more online fun from Scholastic.
 Harry Potter Darkman.com
Harry Potter quizzes from teachervision.com
Harry Potter worksheets. Click here.

More Quizzes:

Crosswords:

 Printatble activities Year 1












Harry Potter Polls
Cast your vote in Harry Potter polls. Click here.

Write your own Haiku 

*Advanced level - write your own Haiku 

Pair work: write a Harry Potter Haiku.
Haiku is a very old form of poetry from Japan.
It consists of three unrhymed lines. Traditionally,
the first and last lines have five syllables each,
and the middle line has seven syllables.

In the following link you can see examples of Haiku.
To write your own poem and send it scroll down the page
where you will see "Send Us Your Own Harry Haiku!"
 Click here to see examples of Haiku.



Harry Potter Ecards  

Send your teacher a castle e-postcard.
Follow the five steps to send the card.
Write your opinion about one of the
Harry Potter books.
After you write your message click on the
PREVIEW button to see your postcard.
If you click on START OVER you will lose
everything that you wrote and you will have
to start all over again. Click here.
More ecards from 123giggle.com . Click here.
Harry Potter interesting sites. Click here.  

 




Help Someone Else
 Pretend you have special tools like
Harry (i.e. a flying broom, an invisibility cloak).
Write how you would use these tools to help someone else.

Send to the
                        



Pair work: in J.K. Rowling's novels
Harry Potter and others are frequently bullied, both physically and verbally.
A. Look up the word bullying in a dictionary and write its definition.
B. List 5 events of bullying from a Harry Potter novel.
Explain how the bullying started, the kind of bullying, and how the victim reacted. Also, what was the REAL cause of the bullying?
C. Do you think the victim handled it wisely?
How could the victim have handled it better?
D. How could the bully have dealt with the real cause better?
Write your draft here:
Write a factsheet and display in your English room.
 
Helpful sites   

Join the Harry Potter Dialogue Center

A glossary to Harry Potter terms

Harry Potter posters

Find words, things, & places in the Harry Potter
books in alphabetical order

wizard school at kidsdomain.com

Get a Harry Potter Screen Saver

Harry Potter reference guide

Links  

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter Picture Gallery

The official Harry Potter site

Interviews with the cast of Harry Potter

Potter votes

Harry Potter message boards

Director of Harry Potter speaks about cast

Watch film clips

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - tikah.co.il

surfnetkids.com

Warner Brothers

Fact Monster.com - Harry Potter

kidsinfoplease.com

 

Last updated 24/05/09

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