Reading 1

The witch had a cat and a very tall hat and long ginger hair that she wore in a plait.

(The phone always writes plat instead of plait!)

How the cat purred and how the witch grinned as they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind.

But how the witch wailed and how the cat spat when the wind blew so wildly it blew off the hat.

Down! cried the witch and they flew to the ground. They searched for the hat but no hat could be found.

Then out of the bushes оn thundering paws there bounded a dog with the hat in his jaws.

My phone writes ‘pause’ instead of ‘paws’ and it doesn’t want to write ‘there bounded a dog’ either. It adds lots of words!

He dropped it politely, then eagerly said, as the witch pulled the hat firmly down on her head,

I am a dog, as keen as can be, is there room on the broom for a dog like me?

Yes! cried the witch and the dog clambered on. The witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh! They were gone.

My phone doesn’t recognise the word ‘whoosh’