An original video animation (OVA) was also released by Abbey Home Entertainment in the 1990s as part of their Tempo Video range, featuring all 9 tales told using Scales and West's audiobook recordings. Re-releases from 1996 onwards had their narrations re-recorded by Dawn French and Martin Clunes in the respective stories. An on-line community of teachers that provides resources and lesson plans specifically designed for teachers, by teachers Includes several enrichment activities and projects, a list of Internet resources, and a short Dahl bibliography. Fun activity to help improve students’ ability to write with descriptive details that allow the reader to visualize in their head. Vocabulary words and questions for each chapter of the book, along with a suggested final project (note: Archive.org)

PDF with activities related to exploring parent and child relationships in The Tummy-Beast and The Porcupine Dirty Beasts is about all kinds of different animals that either scare the humans or eat the humans. Most of these stories are similar to Aesop's Fables, except that they are more darker than Aesop's Fables. These stories try to tell the audience that one should not mistreat animals or else the animals will do horrible things to them such as eat them. Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”. Excellent study kit that includes materials around Pre-reading, Context, and Word Work. Also includes the text of the story and mp3 files for listening to it.

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Bring a world of giant peaches and talking insects to life in your classroom with these brilliant beyond belief YPO lesson plans. Lesson plan where students learn how to identify homophones in a reading passage and how to best use the Visual Thesaurus to help them decide on the appropriate homophones to complete quotations from the book In the OVA, the "Crocodile" was moved so that it would be told before the "Tummy Beast", which also was moved to be told before the "Toad and the Snail". PDF with activities related to teamwork and cooperation, including designing a business with roles for all the team members Several lesson plans for various chapters in the book, which develop various skills through wordplay, drama and many other methods

PDF with activities related to exploring Dahl's use of descriptive language including drawing an alienThe Pig" – When a genius pig realizes that he is born for humans to eat, he turns on his owner the farmer and eats him instead. Includes several good ideas for enrichment activities, a list of Internet links, and a Dahl bibliography

PDF file including extracts, Literacy and PSHE learning objectives, lesson plans and fun activity sheets A R.A.F.T. Writing Prompt involving identification of important quotes from the story and then writing a persuasive essay in the form of a closing argument from a defense attorney To identify: Lists both prior printings of Fawcett illustrations and then the statement ‘This edition with new illustrations published 1984’Six brand new lesson plans for teaching Roald Dahl's Boy: Tales of Childhood create by YPO to explore Literacy and PSHE objectives, whilst exploring themes such as descriptions, colourful characters and information gathering. Series of lessons is aimed at developing literacy skills using Minecraft to create Dahl's most memorable settings