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About The Author Study of Roald Dahl - The BFG & More ELA Book Study Activities

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Kids can explore the amazing works of Roald Dahl - the author of The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and much more - with these author study activities and worksheets. Read about the author from a biography text, complete compare and contrast tasks, write a letter to the writer, do a word search, colour a colouring page, and choose from a range of other ideas.


What You Get

  • a 1-page biography of Roald Dahl to learn about him and his life
  • a worksheet to identify similarities & differences between two of the author's books
  • a worksheet to make comparisons between one of their books and a movie version of it (if applicable)
  • two Letters To The Author templates - one with student prompts and one without prompts
  • a word search with words associated with the author
  • an author colouring page
  • 8 ideas of other activities that you might like to do with your class
  • solution page for the word search


This Resource Can Be Used

  • together as a full author study unit
  • select pages can be pulled out and used separately
  • in literacy centers
  • for early finishers
  • for homeschool
  • in 1:1 intervention sessions


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Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

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Curriculum alignment details

This resource is intended for the following use:

Curriculum:

 Australian Curriculum

Content Descriptors:

AC9E10LE03: Analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures​,​ language features​,​ literary devices and visual features​,​ and the context in which these texts are experienced​,​ influence audience response

Further context or application:

Not specified

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