Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Planning Roald Dahl Literacy

Three weeks great planning. Don’t expect lessons on Charlie. It’s report writing in English using Charlie with powerpoints etc

Great powerpoints

Zip file has more. I’ve put some example stuff on to give you a flavour.

Introduce the new unit and read the writing outcome with the children.
Complete a skills audit verbally. TTYP – what skills do you already have that will help you to achieve the outcome? What skills do you think you will need to revise? Are there any completely new skills you will need?

Introduce the focus text. We know a lot about Roald Dahl from our biography unit. Has anyone ever read ‘Charlie…’?
Seen the films?

Explain that we need to know the story line and the characters, so we are going to spend today’s lesson using the 2005 film as a visual text. The rest of the week will be spent comparing the visual text to the written text and completing various activities and pieces of writing.

Become familiar with the story by using a visual text.

Use both visual and written texts to analyse character and setting descriptions. Finish any of the DVD which we didn’t finish yesterday.

Use the written text to read the character descriptions of Charlie, his parents, grandparents and the four other winners of golden tickets.

Activity One

Come back together, discuss and put information on working wall.

Repeat with setting descriptions.
Look at a still of Charlie’s house from the film and read the setting description for it.
Look at the still from the ‘meadow’ in the chocolate factory and read the description on pages 87-90.

Activity Two

Revise features of journalistic writing.

Compose a newspaper article using the correct form and language.
Working in pairs, children to sketch a story mountain onto a whiteboard. Children to then summarise ‘Charlie…’ using one or two sentences for each section of the mountain.
Come back together and discuss.

Read chapter five of the text. What main event is happening? The announcement of the golden ticket competition.

Watch 14:28 – 15:44 – how does the film embellish the details given in the book?
Explain today’s task, you are a senior news reporter for the ‘International Herald’ a newspaper which is published in many different countries, many different languages all over the world. Your editor has asked you to write a newspaper article about this event. Your report will be published the day after Willy Wonka’s signs went up. You will be reporting on the competition, the prizes and the mania sweeping the world.

TTYP – what are main features of a journalistic piece of writing?
Come back together and list for the working wall:
Headline, paragraphs, subheadings, quotations, orientation, 5 ws, past tense, direct, formal, balanced etc.

Brainstorm some headlines for our article.
List the 5 Ws on the working wall.
Give each child a checklist and an inverted pyramid.