The BFG was said to have been Roald Dahl's favourite of all his stories. If you want to feel inspired by The BFG in your own classroom, we have a lovely art and literacy lesson plan for Chapter 14 - Dreams available to download.

Use these brand new lesson plans to help students understand autobiography, to imagine what it would be like to leave home for the first time, and to come up with their own drama using Roald's Great Mouse Plot as inspiration. Students can also learn about using noun phrases, adjectives, and conjunctions, write an effective description and identify themes.

These officially phizz-whizzing BFG lesson plans include PSHE and Literacy Objectives for lessons on Friendship, Dreams and Believing.<br /> <br /> Whether you’ve read it before or are discovering Roald Dahl's the Big Friendly Giant’s story for the first time, the resources follow the plot so it’s easy to read-along.<br /> <br /> Find more great lesson plans at www.roalddahl.com/lessonplans.

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me tells the tale of Billy and his friends - the Giraffe, the Pelican and the Monkey - who together make up the Laderless Window-Cleaning Company. Your students will have fun with our citizenship lesson plan, which uses the animals from the story to explore the power of good teamwork.

Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts, a selection of poems about some horribly wicked creatures, see him having a lot of fun with rhyming and language. With this lesson plan, your students can do the same - and have a lot of fun along the way.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of Roald Dahl's best-known children's books, and now you can bring Willy Wonka's world into your classroom with these splendiferous lesson plans which include PSHE and Literacy Objectives on identity, behaviours and rewarding positive behaviour.<br /> <br /> Students can learn how to use descriptive and persuasive language, understand how names can shape identity, invent their own wonka-inspired confectionery and write a newspaper article based on Charlie’s story.<br /> <br /> Whether you’ve read it before or are discovering the story for the first time, the resources follow the plot so it’s easy to read-along.<br /> <br /> Find more great lesson plans at www.roalddahl.com/lessonplans.

The Enormous Crocodile was first published in 1978 and was the first of Roald Dahl's stories on which he collaborated directly with his principal illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake. This literacy lesson explores wordplay in The Enormous Crocodile.

Help your class to think of ways to help Billy escape the Gruncher and get home in these fun lesson plans which include Art and Literacy Objectives on spoken language, imagining worlds and celebrating achievements.

George's Marvellous Medicine was published in 1981. If you fancy brewing up some potions in your own classroom (make sure they&'re safer than George&';s...) then this lesson plan is great for getting students involved in creating a recipe book of outrageous new concoctions.

If you're studying themes from The Magic Finger with your class, this lesson plan encourages students to develop a piece of creative writing about having magical powers.

The Witches was published in 1983. In this witchy lesson plan, your students become detectives, just like the boy and his grandmother in the original story on the trail of the Grand High Witch...

If you're feeling inspired to explore some of the themes from Roald Dahl’s Matilda in your own classroom, our lesson plan asks students to use their drama skills to explore what life would actually be like in a school run by Miss Trunchbull...

If you're looking for drama lesson inspiration, this is the place to be - your students will have lots of fun designing Twit-like tricks for those tricky Twits with this lesson plan…

In Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl tells the story of his own early days. If you're looking to explore the autobiographical elements in Boy with your own class, this lesson plan relating to Chapter 4 - The Great Mouse Plot invites students to have a go at writing their own autobiography.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator continues the story of Charlie Bucket and Mr Wonka in space and back in the Chocolate Factory. With this lesson plan for Chapter Seven - Something Nasty in the Lifts, you can have fun with your class as they use their descriptive-writing skills to create a new alien.

Fantastic Mr Fox offers a wonderful insight into Roald Dahl's use of alliteration and language. In this literacy lesson plan, students are invited to use the story to investigate these linguistic tricks.

James and the Giant Peach tells the story of James Henry Trotter and his horrible aunts - and how some magic beans, a peach tree and a collection of interesting insects conspire to change his life. It's those awful aunts that have inspired this lesson plan, which invites students to have some fun with similes as they invent a new relative for James.

Esio Trot tells the story of Mr Hoppy, his great love, Mrs Silver, and a little tortoise called Alfie. This lesson plan will be great fun for your students and anyone who is a fan of Esio Trot as it gives them the chance to create a classroom of tortoises, arranged into sets or order of size.

Danny, the Champion of the World was inspired by the Buckinghamshire countryside Roald Dahl lived in. This lesson invites students to analyse, design and evaluate a new pheasant-catching trick for Danny and his Dad.

Get your class to create recipes for their own perilous potions in these marvellous lesson plans which include PSHE and Literacy Objectives on the power of words, exciting writing and mixed feelings.<br /> <br /> Students can create recipes for their own perfectly potent potions (making sure they're safer than George's...) and look at why Grandma is such a miserable old grouch.<br /> <br /> They can also learn about using alliteration and adverbs effectively, how Roald Dahl uses language to generate excitement, create their own story with a magical object and have some fun with some super science from the upcoming George’s Marvellous Experiments book.<br /> <br /> Find more great lesson plans at www.roalddahl.com/lessonplans.

This lesson plan for older students is a close analysis of the features of suspense writing in Roald Dahl's autobiographical story Going Solo, which is the sequel to the acclaimed Boy: Tales of Childhood.