This series of four lessons on Roald Dahl’s ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ breaks the story into four extracts and four distinct but interconnected lessons. Lesson 1: 16 slides Lesson 2: 16 slides Lesson 3: 14 slides Lesson 4: 16 slides Each lesson contains key questions and tasks relating to the story. Students are encouraged to think about Dahl’s suspense, characterisation, and use black humour. Key vocabulary is introduced and Dahl’s structure is dissected, with students making predictions and debating what might happen next as the story progresses. The nature of Mary Maloney’s marriage is discussed, as is the significance of her pregnancy, and the symbolic use of the leg of lamb in her infamous crime. At the end of the fourth lesson, we think about how Dahl uses the story symbolically and allegorically to comment on attitudes to gender in the 1950s. Questions, discussion points, and tasks are included for students. There are multiple tasks to strengthen analytical writing (with clearly structured model paragraphs included), and more creative tasks are featured, too, including diary entries and newspaper writing. Copies of all four extracts are included in this resource. There are at least 4 lessons here, but - depending on the pace of your classes - this could be stretched into more. This series of lessons is ideal for KS3. PowerPoints and extracts are saved as PDFs.

The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl - Fiction Complete lessons or lessons, on the excellent short story by Roald Dahl! Complete and attractive lesson pack includes: • Engaging starters • Lesson objectives ��� Full story and discussion prompts throughout (pdf of the complete story included) • Card sort and text search activity • Agree or disagree discussion prompt activity • Key quote analysis discussion • Main question and WAGOLL • The Hitchhiker quiz Resources included at the back of the power point and as a separate resource for ease of use. An engaging lesson to use time and time again. Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: outstanding images by Osian Grifford, https://osiangrifford.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/illustrations-for-the-hitchhiker/, font by cooltext.com, Roald Dahl PDF: http://ekladata.com/-DO9CNHfQY7PfrK84RVJXCJg6DM.pdf.)

This is a bundle of resources (16 in total) which include worksheets, differentiated work, comprehension questions and activities, as well as a variety of planned assessment options. There is more than you would ever need included in this pack, allowing for teacher/student personalisation throughout the unit.

Product Description This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text is a summary/ short story based on Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”. The “Boy” listens closely to his Grandmamma’s stories about the horrid witches, but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself… After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a character match, a crossword, and True or False exercises, a multiple choice exercise and a fill in the gaps. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.

I designed this 60 minute lesson for world book day with my KS3 students. It asks students to form opinions on the censorship of books. Students look at a a range of headlines and news videos and fill our a pros and cons grid. This leads up to class discussion and writing a short speech in response to a statement.

This resource guides students through the Roald Dahl poem ‘the Pig’ using reading comprehension skills. Students need to summarize, ask questions, make predictions and clarify their understanding. This resource would be a useful part of a wider reading program.

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Roald Dahl, particularly those completing a history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled: Overview; Times in His Life; Important Vocabulary; Roald Dahl Timeline; Answers to the Important Questions; Top Ten Facts. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.

A weeks worth of lessons on Roald Dahl's short story. PowerPoint comprises of 30 slides which include: Implicit/Explicit meanings Creative Writing Task Imagery Analysis PEE Peer Assessment Perfect for anyone looking to teach this short story and be creative at the same time!

Along with a lined copy of the story, there's a PowerPoint that focuses on characterization, drawing inferences while providing textual evidence, and generating hypotheses. There are also two handouts that correspond to the PowerPoint. Learning is focused on characterization and using textual evidence.

The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a 5 lesson scheme of work with a 50 slide editable PowerPoint presentation and an 11 page booklet of worksheets. The Landlady by Roald Dahl teaching resource includes a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities: A scheme of work overview with 5 four part lessons covering literary context, plot, character, themes and language Analysis of the characters of Billy Weaver and The Landlady Extension activities Cloze and sequencing exercises Literary context understanding influences - fairy tales - activity and notes A copy of the text link Tales of the Unexpected TV version of The Landlady introduced by Roald Dahl link A modern day version of The Landlady link Analysing Roald Dahl’s use of language to build mood and tension in The Landlady Essay question with planning guidance

A chapter-by-chapter workbook to accompany Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl with fun pre-reading vocabulary, comprehension (at three delicious levels). 18 photocopiable A4 pages to help your students get more from the book and make your life easier! A are short, easily found answers, B may include description or analysis and C take more thought and interpretation (why/how).

Thirty questions and answers on Roald Dahl’s crazy characters designed to pique the interest of students and encourage them to read his books.

I’m reposting this old file because it’s Roald Dahl’s centenary and because “The Landlady” is an exceptionally well written, suspenseful and eerie short story that cries out to be explored at Hallowe’en by both middle and high school students. (It is not to be missed if “foreshadowing” and “appearance versus reality” figure in your curriculum.) I’ve summarized The Landlady and stirred the pieces in my cauldron. After your class has read the story, your students should be able to reconstitute the summary as a small group, co-operative activity.

This is a beautifully presented Roald Dahl crossword created from facts about his life and works. Also included is an answer key for you to use as you wish. This is a perfect first lesson for students to gain a bit of context and develop their research skills! I used this for my introductory lesson before my 'Darker Side of Dahl' unit for my Year 8 students. They loved it and the answers inform their thinking for the rest of the topic. I took them to the computer suite and encouraged them to use their initiative. The questions are tricky enough not to know, but not so difficult that the students lose interest. This would also be a brilliant activity to use on Roald Dahl Day on September 13th!

The first few 3 chapters formatted and nicely presented for reading with some great class or guided reading activities from ‘The Twits’ Suitable for Year 2 / 3, but easily adaptable if required. EXTRAS: MARCH 2019 A script that can be used to act out Up to Chapter 8 Printable A Great Video for ‘Wormy Spaghetti’

To celebrate Roald Dahl Day, Into Film has produced this assembly which looks at the author's birthday on 13th September and his beloved story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (voted by you as the number one fiction book all children should read before leaving Primary school!). The PowerPoint presentation contains teacher notes, embedded film clips, questions and stimulus for a whole school activity. More Roald Dahl on Film resources can be found at www.intofilm.org/roald-dahl To start your free Into Film Club visit www.intofilm.org/clubs Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating will help other teachers to find it.

This is a fully differentiated lesson helping learners understand how writers craft language to create vivid descriptions for their readers. The lesson looks at a key extract from the novel, Matilda and includes a model response to an exam-style question. All of my lessons have been tried and tested by my own groups and can be taught either face-to-face or remotely. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Roald Dahl's 'The Twits.' Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS1 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: - 'Feed Mr. Twit' - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'talk about their favourite words and phrases in the story;' - 'Dahl's Description' - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Explain meanings of words that they know and ask the meaning of new words. Link the meaning of new words to words that they already know;' - 'The Mugglewumps' - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Say what might happen next in a story based on what has happened so far;' - 'Mr. and Mrs. Twit' - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Enjoy reading and discussing the order of events in books and how items of information are related.' Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is around 20 pages in length!) I've also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included).

Teaching Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this 10-page unit test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message, which can be included or not based on the level of your students. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.

A series of fact cards which could be used for display in your book corner or Library. Comprises of 16 fact cards.