Boy by Roald Dahl - questions, discussions and activities by chapter

Aimed at upper KS2 or KS3 readers, this resource provides a way to help students engage with the text. With 25 slides (one per chapter), it helps teachers to plan discussions and activities relating to each chapter. Some may be questions you want to ask along the way as you are reading as a class (or alternatively could be modified into comprehension task questions); other activities could be developed into a whole lesson (e.g. a piece of writing or a class debate).

There are a variety of tasks and questions around different topics and reading skills:

• formal/informal language
• standard/non-standard English
• predictions
• looking up vocabulary
• author’s language choices
• structural techniques such as short sentences and use of repetition
• building up suspense
• author’s awareness of the reader
• author’s purpose in writing

This resource also aims to engage pupils in the text through:

• drawing characters and settings
• comparing what is recorded in the book with their own experiences
• generating deeper discussion about schools, traditions and punishments
• encouraging students to look up things on the internet: maps, photos, youtube clips