James and the Giant Peach, written by Roald Dahl, is a great book to target vocabulary development. These mini posters are organised by chapters with six to an A4 page (216 Mini Posters in total). Some shorter chapters are combined making 36 pages in total. All are in black and white with grey for contrast.

Each poster has a discreet label for organisational purposes. The target word is obvious, followed by the part of speech category it belongs to in the context of the story. I have added an explanation for adjectives and adverbs because I have found my students get confused by these terms more than any other. There are two interjections included.

The definition has been refined to reflect the meaning intended by the author (my interpretation), and the extract from the story will contribute to comprehension and retention to extend vocabulary. You could use them as a stimulus for creative writing or include them in a display.

The words I have used are:

Ch.1: peacefully, vast, selfish, wistfully, ramshackle, desolate

Ch. 2: hideous, radiant, oozing, overwhelmed, laurel, unhappiness

Ch. 3: peculiar, emerging, bristly, beckoning, musty, luminous

Ch. 4: furiously, churning, froth, gulp, unbelievable, miserable

Ch. 5: precious, burrowed, scrabbling, pulpy, wheeze, vanished

Ch. 6: blossom, miserable, mistaken, blazed, bulging, peculiar

Ch. 7: absolutely, extraordinary, cautiously, hallelujah, spellbound, prey

Ch. 8: wildfire, countryside, scrambling, marvel, crafty, seething

Ch. 9: trembling, spindly, dazzling, towering, glinting, mysterious

Ch. 10: knelt, murky, curious, bittersweet, agog, bolt

Ch. 11: reclining, intently, scarlet, magnificent, famished, glassy

Ch. 12: disagreeable, broadly, approval, withering, scornful, hysterics

Ch. 13: complicated, ambled, gossamer, suspended, drowsily, shimmered

Ch. 14: depart, repulsive, lurching, venomous, insidiously, dilemma

Ch. 15: jostling, lifeless, frantically, struggling, panicked, visible

Ch. 16: plunging, serenely, stampeding, oozing, destruction, bungalows

Ch. 17: indescribable, promptly, disentangle, chaos, chorused, vertically

Ch. 18: bibbling, awkward, perish, gloomy, affectionately, scrumptious

Ch. 19: anxiously, assuming, perambulator, pathetically, anxious, pandemonium

Ch. 20: threshing, ludicrous, coaxing, martyr, wheeling, preposterous

Ch. 21: genius, scuttled, wailed, captain, applies, depend

Ch. 22: innocently, exhorting. tethered, harnessed, majestically, captured

Ch. 23: literally, frail, mammoth, ascent, distinctly, churned

Ch. 24: inferior, scornfully rambunctious, incredible, precisely, encore

Ch. 25: essential, vital, modestly, trifle, absence, decent

Ch. 26 & 27: teetering, brink, menacing, overwhelming, evidently, infuriated, stealthy, wispy, wraithlike, stammered, salami, loathsome

Ch. 28: monstrous, scuttling, enthralled, brilliance, malevolently, flabbergasted

Ch. 29: wretched, encased, gurgling, detest, permanently, proposal

Ch. 30: automatically, immense, faucets, groped, deluge, swirling

Ch. 31: frisking, skimming, blizzard, sinister, melancholy, uttered

Ch. 32: cramped, glistening, soot, skyscrapers, overnight, incredible

Ch. 33: pandemonium, smithereens, summon, hovering, interrupted, wailing

Ch. 34-36: plummeted, stupor, pinnacle, precisely, squelch, tapered

Ch. 37: aliens, observation, commotion, gruesome, astonishment, hatchets

Ch. 38: flabbergasted, escorted, steeplejacks, limousine, descended, pulleys

Ch. 39: journey, successful, manufacturers, nylon, permanently, elegant