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Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger

Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger

English Fiction Reading Resource

This KS2 English fiction unit of work covers the Roald Dahl classic 'The Magic Finger'. It comes in the form of an eight lesson editable PowerPoint presentation and a 12-page booklet of worksheets.

'Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger' contains a variety of lessons and activities designed to help children understand the book's plot, characters, language and themes.

'Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger' includes something for children of all abilities:

• A scheme of work overview with 8 progressive four part lessons covering the author Roald Dahl, plot, character, themes and language
• A Roald Dahl mini biography, a video about Roald Dahl by Michael Rosen, a comprehension task and a class game
• Reading, writing and speaking and listening activities
• Eight 4 part lessons with starter activity, introduction, development and plenary
• Developing making predictions skills using book covers (images, title, author, blurb) about plot, characters, themes and genre
• Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters
• Writing-frame to help children write about characters
• Examining Roald Dahl's use of language in The Magic Finger (using effective verbs and adjectives)
• Creating a comic strip version of The Magic Finger to assess understanding of the plot
• Tips for tackling new words
• Cross curricular - Endangered species and wild birds research fact file task (Geography, Citizenship, nature and the environment)
• Full scheme of work overview

'Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger' is completely editable so teachers have the freedom to adapt the resource to suit the individual needs of each class they teach.

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