Celebrating Roald Dahl Day

Discover Roald Dahl Day activities with worksheets, storyboards, and quizzes designed to inspire young learners as they explore the imaginative world of Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl day activities

Creative Roald Dahl Day activities, quizzes and lesson ideas to help primary students 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 students' 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 Day activities

Roald Dahl's Boy: Tales of Childhood Lesson Plans
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Roald Dahl's Boy: Tales of Childhood Lesson Plans

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Use these brand new lesson plans to help students understand autobiography, to imagine what it would be like to leave home for the first time, and to come up with their own drama using Roald's Great Mouse Plot as inspiration. Students can also learn about using noun phrases, adjectives, and conjunct...
Roald Dahl KS2 Fact Pack
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Roald Dahl KS2 Fact Pack

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Fact Pack includes Roald Dahl biography, list of books, fun facts, games, quiz and answers, writing workshop and Phizz Whizzing Words Entry Form. Ideal for Roald Dahl Day but can be used for author studies or just for fun!
Year 3 or Year 4 Roald Dahl Biography Writing Unit
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Year 3 or Year 4 Roald Dahl Biography Writing Unit

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A biography writing unit about the life of the famous British author, Roald Dahl. The NO PREP unit has been split into four separate lessons and is perfect for students in Year 3 or Year 4. Students will learn about the famous figure whilst working on their comprehension skills and developing their ...
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 '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...
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-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 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...
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...