Roald Dahl
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Biography and Background
The Official Roald Dahl Website
Colorful, engaging, and full of ideas for readers and teachers alike.
Roald Dahl Day
This interactive site offers a variety of ways to celebrate September 13.
Roald Dahl: His Life and Work
Students read a brief biography and answer some comprehension questions.
Roald Dahl: The Story of the 'Storyteller'
This article includes an excerpt from the 2010 book, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock.
Teacher Ideas
This page lists activities to support a wide variety of Dahl stories and includes ideas for Roald Dahl day.
Vague Pronouns
Students read and analyze a mentor text (an excerpt from Roald Dahl's "Boy: Tales of Childhood"), write their own narrative vignette, and analyze their use of pronouns in their vignette.
"Beware of the Dog"
"Beware of the Dog"
Text of Dahl's story about an English pilot shot down during WWII.
The BFG
The BFG
A Reader's Theater script.
The BFG
Some discussion questions and a passage from the book read aloud.
Creative Writing
Scroll down to #6, Recipes for Dreams. Students write individual recipes, then create a class cookbook for dreams.
Teacher Ideas
A teacher-developed recipe for Frobscottle — just for fun!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A variety of activities to support the book.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Activities and chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Part One
Selection quick check. This one-page document requires Adobe Reader or equivalent application for access.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Part Two
Selection quick check. This one-page document requires Adobe Reader or equivalent application for access.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Lots of information about chocolate, word puzzles, and an interactive story.
Comprehension: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Six pages of passages and comprehension questions, some writing activities. Requires Adobe Reader or equivalent application for access.
Creative Writing
Scroll down to #2. Students develop creative writing skills by designing and describing a new room in the chocolate factory.
A Visit to the Chocolate Factory
Links to information about the history and production of chocolate.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
Booktalk, vocabulary words, anticipation guide, and post-reading activities, including lots of ideas for projects.
James and the Giant Peach
Several resources for working with vocabulary and reading. Click on the link to the unit plan first.
James and the Giant Peach
Activities and vocabulary, bibliography of other books by Dahl.
You're on a Gigantic Roll
The writer will imagine and compose a descriptive paragraph that focuses on a gigantic object moving through a specific setting and leaving destruction in its wake. The writer will choose an object and a setting in which the catastrophe will take place. Using high-quality details and strong verbs will help the writer create a showing paragraph. This lesson focuses on idea development and word choice.
Danny -- Champion of the World
Danny -- Champion of the World
This resource includes chapter-by-chapter vocabulary words and comprehension questions.
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
Convince that Jury
In this RAFT writing task, students will identify important quotes from "Lamb to the Slaughter," then use the quotes to write a persuasive essay in the form of a closing argument from a defense attorney. Students will also use the trait of word choice to strengthen their persuasive arguments.
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
Text of the story.
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
Text of the story; requires MS-Word or compatible application for access.
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
Origin of the phrase.
"The Landlady"
"The Landlady"
Text of the story.
"The Landlady"
This kit includes prereading activites, historical background, vocabulary, the text of the story, and audio files of the story.
"Man from the South"
"Man from the South"
Text of Dahl's classic horror story.
Matilda
Matilda
Students read an excerpt from the text and answer comprehension questions.
Sorting out Homophones in Roald Dahl's Matilda
In this lesson, students learn how to identify homophones in a reading passage and how to best use the Visual Thesaurus to help them decide on the appropriate homophones to complete quotations from the popular children's book Matilda.
The Twits
The Twits
"Show, don't tell" is something we often say to student writers, but this writing activity asks writers to consider both showing and telling as they create a well-rounded paragraph. Inspired by a telling sentence (with a linking verb), the writer will create a descriptive paragraph that contains four or five showing sentences and one telling sentence. These showing sentences will contain action verbs and interesting adjectives, and the telling sentence might become the paragraph's introduction or conclusion. This lesson focuses on organization and sentence fluency.
