These resources will bring the magical world of Roald Dahl stories to life. Roald Dahl: 'I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.'
Structure and features
For students and families
Students can listen to free Roald Dahl audio book read by actors on the Roald Dahl audiobooks app.
Explore film adaptations of the books on the Roald Dahl HQ YouTube channel.
For teachers
The Roald Dahl and Roald Dahl fans websites have lesson plans that will support class literature programs for these stories and others:
- Matilda
- James and the giant peach
- Charlie and the chocolate factory
- The Twits
- George's marvellous medicine
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Billy and the minpins
- Boy
- The BFG
- revolting rhymes and dirty beast
- Going solo
- The enormous crodile
- Esio Trot
- The witches
- The magic finger
- Danny, the champion of the world
- Charlie and the great glass elevator.
Find more suggestions for how you can Roald Dahl stories in your classroom in this post about important lessons Roald Dahl stories can teach.
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Curriculum links
Roald Dahl stories can help students build an understanding of the language features used in narrative writing but can also in a variety of other ways across the curriculum. This Teachwire post has resources, lesson plans and activities that relate Roald Dahl stories to art and design, science, persuasive writing and poetry.
