Roald Dahl Author Study
Grades 4th - 6th
Students in grades 4 - 6 will each be reading a different novel by the famous author, Roald Dahl. Lessons and activities will focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary and the craft of writng. Each of the stories will be accompanied by a movie adapatation and the program will conclude with participants analyzing the differences between the novels and the films.
Before you teach, please teach use these resources to help your participants become familiar with the author.
Three horrid farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - hate cunning Mr Fox, who outwits them at every turn. But poor Mr Fox and his friends don't realise how determined the farmers are to get them...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
BLACKROCK
Matilda
NT
The BFG
Town
Witches absolutely detest children. To a witch, a child smells like dogs' droppings. And now the Grand High Witch is planning to get rid of every child in England - can anybody stop them?
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Matilda Wormwood is only five years old, but she is a genius. Unfortunately her parents are too stupid to even notice. Worse, her horrible headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a bully who makes life difficult for Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, and her friends. But what Miss Trunchbull doesn't know is that Matilda has a trick or two up her sleeve...
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The Big Friendly Giant is unlike other giants. For a start, he doesn't like to eat people and it's not long before he becomes orphan Sophie's very best friend.
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Nobody has seen Willy Wonka - or inside his amazing chocolate factory - for years. When he announces plans to invite the winners of five Golden Tickets hidden inside the wrappers of chocolate bars to visit his factory, the whole world is after those tickets!
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Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
RIVERSIDE
James & the Giant Peach
NEWMAN
James Henry Trotter lives with his two horrid aunts, Spiker and Sponge. He hasn't got a single friend in the whole wide world. That is not, until he meets the Old Green Grasshopper and the rest of the insects aboard a giant, magical peach!
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