Equipment: Over the week you will need a pen/pencil, paper, your Whiteboard and pens, highlighters and copies of the worksheets (either paper copies or on the screen). There are also some web-links which provide additional opportunities for you to develop your understanding and skills.

Instructions: Over the next few weeks all your learning in English will be based around three different stories taken from Roald Dahl’s ‘Revolting Rhymes.’ The learning today will focus around the author of the stories, Roald Dahl.

Lesson 1

This is Roald Dahl. You will have probably have heard of him before as he might have written some of your favourite stories! Today we are going to be learning all about him and his life. There is a written fact file all about Roald Dahl that is posted below. Your learning today involves either reading or watching your chosen informative video about Roald Dahl and making some notes about key information, you could also highlight points that you think are important. You could also tell someone in your home what you have learnt.

A much shorter video with key facts and information about Roald Dahl can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHARlkj9DI

A long and detailed biography of Roald Dahl’s like can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQfvwoWszjk

Lesson 2

Today we are going to build upon yesterday’s learning all about Roald Dahl.

First to warm up and remind yourself of any important information you can do a word search. You don’t have to print this off, the answers will also be posted below so you can check how you’ve done. If you didn’t want to do the word search you could test your knowledge by completing this Roald Dahl quiz, or even test members of your family!

Activities

1. Create a poster with all the facts you have remembered about the life of Roald Dahl. Please include drawings and key words as well as any sentences you think could be important.

2. Complete a fact sheet all about the life of Roald Dahl. Attached is a sheet you could use if you have a printer or you could just use the questions and the layout of the sheet to prompt your ideas.

3. Make a power point presentation or a quiz for one of your family members to do on the computer including all the information you can remember about Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl Quiz Decide if each of the statements are ‘True’ or ‘False’. Then check your answers. Why not then have a family quiz to see who gets most right!

Question

True or False

Roald Dahl was a pilot in the Second World War.

Five children found golden tickets to visit Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

Matilda was able to turn herself invisible.

Roald Dahl’s last book for children was Esio Trot.

Roald Dahl’s first successful book for children was James and the Giant Peach.

Matilda loved to read.

The name Dahl comes from Norway.

Roald Dahl’s books have sold over 200 million copies

Sophie, in The BFG, was named after his granddaughter.

Muggle-Wump is a character in the Witches.

Roald Dahl got in a lot of trouble for putting a mouse in a jar of sweets when he was at school.

Roald Dahl Quiz Answers

Question Answer

Roald Dahl was a pilot in the Second World War.

True - He joined the Royal Air Force in 1939.

Five children found golden tickets to visit Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

True - Charlie Bucket was joined by Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt and Violet Beauregard.

Matilda was able to turn herself invisible.

False - Matilda was able to move objects with her mind.

Roald Dahl’s last book for children was Esio Trot.

False - His last children’s book was The Minpins.

Roald Dahl’s first successful book for children was James and the Giant Peach.

True - He did write The Gremlins first but it was never successful.

Matilda loved to read. True - Reading was the way she escaped her miserable life.

The name Dahl comes from Norway. True - Both of his parents were Norwegian.

Roald Dahl’s books have sold over 200 million copies

True - He has sold millions of books and still sells thousands every day

Sophie, in The BFG, was named after his granddaughter.

True - The character was originally going to be called Jody.

Muggle-Wump is a character in the Witches.

False - Muggle-Wump appears in two stories, The Twits and The Enormous Crocodile, but not The Witches.

Roald Dahl got in a lot of trouble for putting a mouse in a jar of sweets when he was at school.

True - He and some friends wanted to teach a mean shop owner a lesson.

Lesson 3

Today we are going to begin our first story. The first story we will be learning about is called ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ Once you have listened to, watched or read the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ you will then answer some comprehension questions about the story to check your understanding. The extension questions are there for a challenge and will ask you for more detail. These questions will be posted below. A written version of the rhyme is posted below for you to read or to read with someone in your home. If you wanted to watch, a lovely illustrated version of the story can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAoCUN4toE A much longer but very funny Jackanory version told by Rik Mayall can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26cv1i4dqCM

Jack’s mother said, ‘We’re stony broke!

Go out and find some wealthy bloke

Who’ll buy our cow. Just say she’s sound

And worth at least a hundred pound.

But don’t you dare to let him know

That she’s as old as billy-o!’

Jack led the old brown cow away,

And came back later in the day,

And said, ‘Oh mummy dear, guess what

Your clever little boy has got.

I got, I really don’t know how,

A super trade-in for our cow.’

The mother said, ‘You little creep,

I bet you sold her much too cheap!’

When Jack produced one lousy bean,

His startled mother, turning green,

Leaped high up in the air and cried,

‘I’m absolutely stupefied!

You crazy boy! D’you really mean

You sold out Daisy for a bean?’

She snatched the bean and yelled, ‘You chump!’

And flung it on the rubbish-dump.

Then summoning up all her power,

She beat the boy for half an hour.

At ten p.m. or thereabout,

The little bean began to sprout.

By morning it had grown so tall

You couldn’t see the top at all.

Young Jack cried, ‘Mum, admit it now!

It’s better than a rotten cow!’

The mother said, ‘You lunatic!

Where are the beans that I can pick?

There’s not one bean! It’s bare as bare!’

‘No, no!’ cried Jack. ‘You look up there!

Look very high and you’ll behold,

Each single leaf is solid gold!’

By gollikins, the boy was right!

Now, glistening in the morning light,

The mother actually perceives

A mass of lovely golden leaves!

She yells out loud, ‘My sainted souls!

I’ll sell the Mini, buy a Rolls!

Don’t stand and gape, you little clot!

Get up there quick and grab the lot!’

Jack was nimble, Jack was keen.

He scrambled up the mighty bean.

Up, up he went without a stop,

But just as he was near the top,

A ghastly frightening thing occurred -

Not far above his head he heard

A big deep voice, a rumbling thing

That made the very heavens ring.

It should loud, “FEE FI FO FUM

I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN!”

Jack was frightened, Jack was quick,

And down he climbed in half a tick.

‘Oh mum!’ he gasped, ‘Believe you me

There’s something nasty up our tree!

He smelled me out. I swear it, Mum!

He said he smelled an Englishman!’

The mother said, ‘And well he might!

I’ve told you every single night

To take a bath because you smell,

But would you do it? Would you hell!’

Jack answered, ‘Well, if you’re so clean,

Why don’t you climb the crazy bean?’

The mother cried, ‘By gad, I will!

There’s life within the old dog still!’

She hitched her skirts above her knee

And disappeared right up the tree.

Now would the Giant smell his mum?

Jack listened for the fee-fo-fum.

He gazed aloft. He wondered when

The dreaded words would come… and then…

From somewhere high above the ground

There came a frightful crunching sound

He heard the Giant mutter twice,

‘By gosh, that tasted very nice.

Although,’ (and this in grumpy tones)

‘I wish there weren’t so many bones.’

‘By Christopher!’ Jack cried. ‘By gum!

The Giant’s eaten up my mum!’

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Lesson 4

Today we are going to focus on making sure we understand the whole of the story and can re-tell it through sequencing and ordering the story.

1. The first task is for you to decide what you think are the main parts of the story. Can you break this in to four separate parts? You can do this by simply folding a piece of paper in to quarters. Next, draw pictures to represent each of those parts. Finally, add any words to describe what is happening in each of your pictures.

2. This task involves you using the pictures that are pasted below to put them in the

right order to re-tell the story. Once you are happy with the order you can add in some new words or sentences to describe what is happening in each of the pictures.

3. The final task involves you retelling the story in your own words. You can do this in

a number of ways; you can create your own pictures to annotate and explain what is happening in each picture. Why not have some fun, you could make a big story map like the picture posted below.

Lesson 5

Today we are going to be a bit creative and do some different imaginative writing tasks based around the story. In the rhyme Jack finds solid gold leaves at the top of the beanstalk. What would you like to find?

1. The first task is for you to imagine that you have a magic bean and plant it. What would you like to find at the top of the bean stalk? First have a think and talk to someone in your house and then draw what you’d like to find. Then can you explain why you have chosen what you have.

2. The next task is for you write a simple news report imagining you are reporting on

the magic beanstalk. At the top is what you would like to find. What would you include in your report? You could draw a picture to go with it.

3. The final task involves you writing an alternative ending to the story. What would

happen in the story if Jack found what you wanted to find at the top of the beanstalk? How would the story change? What type of ending would it have?