Story Description
Writing the lowercase W turns out to be pretty easy if you know how to make uppercase W, because it’s the same, only smaller, as our child narrator points out.
Making the letter W, though, is merely a prelude to the letter story to come.
The tale begins woefully as Winifred Whale hears William Walrus weeping.
What’s wrong?
William desperately wants to see what’s on the other side of a big wall, but he is afraid to climb over.
Now he has Winifred curious also.
Could there be waffles with whipped cream, wiggly worms or a weird wizard on the other side?
They have to find out!
Winifred has an idea—they should build a window.
The two friends work hard, and soon they can look through their window and see what’s on the other side of the wall.
What do they see?
A wonderfully wacky watermelon!
Curiosity satisfied, William and Winifred wave goodbye to the wacky watermelon and wander off to play in the waves.
Full Story Text
Meet the Letter W
Here’s a story about the letter W.
You make uppercase W like this:
You make a slanted line down,
then a slanted line up,
then down,
and one more line going up.
You make lowercase w the same way but smaller:
a line down,
a line up,
a line down, and then
a line up.
Three things which start with W are . . .
Walrus,
Whale,
Window.
Okay, here’s our story.
One day William Walrus was weeping by the ocean. His whiskers were wet with his tears.
His best friend, Winfred Whale was riding the waves when she heard William whimpering.
“What’s wrong, William?” she asked.
“I want to see what’s on the other side of the wall, but I’m worried if I climb over, I will fall.”
“Maybe I can help you,” Winfred whispered. “I wonder what is on the other side of that wall.
Waffles with whipped cream? Wiggly worms?”
“Or maybe a weird wizard!” William added.
“Okay, what’s over this wall? I GOTTA KNOW!” William wailed.
Winfred said, “I have an idea. What if instead of climbing over the wall, we build a window!”
So William the walrus and Winfred the whale got to work making a window.
When they finally got to look through to the other side of the wall,
all they saw was a wacky watermelon!
“Well, Winfred, we finally know what’s on the other side of the wall.
Now I think we should play in the waves!”
And with that, William and Winfred waved goodbye to the wacky watermelon
and waddled into the water.
THE END
W!
What W words did you find in that story?
