Celebrating Roald Dahl Day

Discover Roald Dahl Day activities with worksheets, storyboards, and quizzes designed to inspire young learners

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Roald Dahl day activities

Creative Roald Dahl Day activities, quizzes and lesson ideas to help primary pupils celebrate the world of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Day, celebrated on 13 September, is a perfect opportunity to introduce your class to books that have inspired children for generations. He is renowned for creating memorable characters: from the eccentric Mr Fox and the Grand High Witch to the extraordinary, yet easily relatable, Matilda, James and Charlie.

What better time to ignite your pupils' imaginations and capture the joy, intrigue, and adventure of the magical worlds Dahl created than with these Roald Dahl Day activities we've gathered for you?

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Roald Dahl-Inspired Poetry Lesson Plan for KS2
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Roald Dahl-Inspired Poetry Lesson Plan for KS2

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Write a poem based on a Roald Dahl book or character. Lots of suggestions for different poetry ideas based on Roald Dahl's work, plus tips and techniques, and examples. Ideal for Key Stage 2 pupils. Ideal for Roald Dahl Day on 13th September too.
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes Poetry Lessons and Activities
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes Poetry Lessons and Activities

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This is my best selling primary resource and is a set of lessons and activities for KS2 poetry work. These would also be ideal for use around National Poetry Day or World Poetry Day. The lessons are based on 'Revolting Rhymes' by Roald Dahl. All lesson resources, differentiated activities and p...
Roald Dahl's The BFG lesson plans
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Roald Dahl's The BFG lesson plans

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These officially phizz-whizzing BFG lesson plans include PSHE and Literacy Objectives for lessons on Friendship, Dreams and Believing. Whether you ve read it before or are discovering Roald Dahl's the Big Friendly Giant s story for the first time, the resources follow the plot so it s eas...
James and the Giant Peach Bumper Pack
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James and the Giant Peach Bumper Pack

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Weeks worth of resources for James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl including: worksheets on sentence starters, vocabulary, speech marks, characters and uplevelling sentences. Also, including powerpoints 'True or False?' and 'Chapter Summaries'. All the worksheets are differentiated and should sa...
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plans
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Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plans

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of Roald Dahl's best-known children's books, and now you can bring Willy Wonka's world into your classroom with these splendiferous lesson plans which include PSHE and Literacy Objectives on identity, behaviours and rewarding positive behaviour. Students...
Roald Dahl Quiz
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Roald Dahl Quiz

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This is a highly visual and fully editable 100 question PowerPoint quiz on Roald Dahl s children s books and includes questions on Matilda, The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Danny Champion of the World, Fantastic Mr Fox, George s Marvellous Medicine, The Twits, Boy, The Giraffe, Pell...
Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' - Lesson Plan
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Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' - Lesson Plan

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The Witches was published in 1983. In this witchy lesson plan, your students become detectives, just like the boy and his grandmother in the original story on the trail of the Grand High Witch...