United StatesRoald Dahl Month: September
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Celebrate Roald Dahl Month this September or any month of the year! Explore and enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach or any of the other Dahl masterpieces. Plan a splendiferous event in honor of Roald Dahl's birthday on September 13th, or on any other simply marvelous day! Download scrumdiddlyumptious activities and a gloriumptious bookmark. See below for these wonderful ideas and more. |
September is Roald Dahl Month. Celebrate the work of Roald Dahl through the lesson-planning ideas and activities in this printable calendar. There is something fun and educational for each day of the month! This packet also includes worksheets featuring four of Roald Dahl's beloved characters: Matilda, Charlie, Mr. Fox, and James. Inspire students to invent their own Gobblefunk by playing with words in the spirit of The BFG by Roald Dahl. How well do your students know these classic Roald Dahl characters? See how many they can identify in this worksheet. Create your own silly story with this Mad-Lib type activity for The Witches by Roald Dahl. This teacher's guide to the world of Roald Dahl is full of fun resources, including a September calendar, discussion questions, lesson-planning ideas, and activities for Roald Dahl Day (September 13). Printables include bookmarks, a reading log, a story outline, a Venn diagram, stickers, and more! Students are asked to create as many words as they can from the sentence, "Matilda loves reading." This is a great activity to compliment the book Matilda by Roald Dahl. The BFG by Roald Dahl is a creative and endearing story about a giant, a girl, and the Queen. This activity uses puzzles and riddles with vocabulary and ideas from the story to build students' interest and skills. Test your students' knowledge of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a quiz on the book. Extend the enjoyment of Roald Dahl's wonderful book, The B.F.G., by making a dream catcher in this fun activity. Challenge your students and guests to create new recipes that are either delicious or revolting as a follow-up to reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. | Celebrate the works of British novelist Roald Dahl with 50 fun suggestions for Roald Dahl Day (September 13). Print the list to hang in your classroom as a poster, and keep the fun going all month! The Twits have scrambled words from the titles of their favorite Roald Dahl books. How many words can your students unscramble? Have fun with poetry! Students use the missing words to complete rhymes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. This worksheet includes lines from a missing chapter of the book. Your students will thoroughly enjoy creating egg carton critters as an extension activity to the wonderful book, James and the Giant Peach. Use this fun, printable bookmark to accompany your teaching as your students read their way through the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. Students can keep a record of their reading with a checklist of Dahl's books on the back of the bookmark. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is a story about Charlie's hilarious adventures in Mr. Willy Wonka's enormous chocolate factory. Intermediate students will love meeting the five, unique children who win a trip to the chocolate factory and find hilarious adventures. Find a variety of activities to complete while reading and after reading Roald Dahl's classic children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There are projects, tests, chapter summaries, and more. Seven creative and fun projects for your students to enjoy after reading the book. Write a newspaper ad to tell everyone about the new chocolate treat that you have just created. Students love James and the Giant Peach, an action-filled fantasy that will amuse and encourage them to read more. Use the activities and resources provided to extend appreciation and learning. |
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