Kindergarten, Chapter 2, Boy by Roald Dahl

In this lesson students are asked to explore how Roald Dahl describes his childhood in chapter 2 of his autobiography, Boy. It would ideal to use as part of a KS3 unit.

The lesson starts by asking students to discuss their memories of being 6/7 years old as Dahl was in this chapter. There is a challenge task relating to the meaning of ‘kindergarten’.

There is a group task for students to do after reading the chapter where they are given questions on the board and a challenge task. All questions are linked to the GCSE reading skills AO1, 2, 3 where they have to think about language, structure and the readers’ reactions.

The plenary asks students to write a descriptive paragraph about their first day at school using key skills, using Dahl’s writing as inspiration.

This lesson, as my other Literature lessons do, includes:

Starter tasks which introduce the main idea of the lesson
Differentiated tasks
Opportunities for pair and group talk within activities (‘Talk for Writing’)