Lesson plan and worksheet based on chapter 24 about Veruca Salt.
Students gather information from the poem about Veruca and questions stimulate discussion about what it means to be ‘spoilt.’
Discussion re the difference between being ‘demanding’ and ‘manipulative.’
Students write own account.
Lesson Plan & worksheet:
Reading, selecting descriptive vocabulary from the text, understanding the author’s reasons for using italics, imagining how characters feel, writing descriptively in the first person.
Lesson plan plus handout.
Students receive a cloze procedure letter as an example of a formal letter from Mike Teavee’s father to a solicitor. They have to read carefully in order to select the correct word for each gap. This letter can also be used as an example for them to produce their own version later.
Lesson plan, assessment worksheet and answer sheet.
Test students’ ability to proof read and correctly use speech marks, commas, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, capital letters, as well as their ability to paragraph dialogue.
The addition of an answer sheets means students can self and peer mark.
A half term’s English work based on ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.’ This year 4 / 5 set of lessons includes different types of creative writing, letter writing, comprehension & punctuation exercises.
There is also an extension worksheet presenting an example of Hillaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales (Matilda) and one of Aesop’s fables (The Boy Who Cried Wolf).
This could be used as the basis for further research. The lesson plans suggest you record feedback of students’ work - which if annotated on the plan would be a great aide-memoire for report writing at the end of the year. There are also suggestions for displays.
The inclusion of lesson plans is very beneficial and a great time saver, although they can obviously be adapted to support your school’s preferences. This bundle could save you many hours of work!