Set of 18 Hot Chocolate Mugs - each with a different CVC picture on. They are lovely for the children to use to write the word in hot chocolate powder. Add to tables or tuff spots for an engaging phonics set up!
Perfect to use for Bonfire Night activities as well as Christmas!
This creative and engaging project based lesson is based on the format of the TV show ‘The Apprentice’. Students are tasked with developing a new chocolate bar, covering all aspects of product development, branding, and marketing. It includes steps such as market research, flavor prototyping, brand and slogan creation, logo design, packaging ideas, pricing strategy, and advertisement planning. Teams must collaborate to survey potential buyers, analyse data, and create a pitch for their product. This activity is ideal for fostering teamwork, creativity, and entrepreneurial thinking in an educational or workshop setting.
This lesson is useful for consolidating data handling concepts such as tally marks, bar charts and pie charts.
This file includes 28 pages.
A KS3 project (three-four lessons) to prepare students for a persuasive presentation on a chocolate bar they have designed.
This resource is designed to prepare students for the following skills:
Persuasive writing
AFOREST devices
Speaking and listening
Understanding target audiences and purpose of text
Improving vocabulary for non-fiction writing
Lesson 1:
LO: To analyse how advertisements use techniques to cater to differing audiences.
Students watch advertisements of chocolate bars, exploring and discussing target audiences and persuasive techniques used in the adverts.
Lesson 2:
LO: To analyse how language is used to create effects and to persuade audiences.
Students extend vocabulary to describe chocolates. Students practice using AFOREST devices to describe them and think about target audiences (packaging, flavour, etc.). You can either give the students the chocolates to taste, or you can just based this lesson on their knowledge of the chocolate flavours already.
Lesson 3:
LO: To create a speech that uses AFOREST and language devices to persuade audiences.
Students to plan and create a chocolate bar of their own design, ready to present to the class. Students to vote on which chocolate bar was the most persuasive in its pitch to the target audience chosen by the student.
Optional - extend L3 to a full writing lesson, followed by L4 as speaking and listening lesson.
This huge ‘Charlie and Chocolate Factory’ bundle contains the entire series of lessons, in addition to the clear, detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet!
The engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the story. Included are questions, tasks and activities for all 30 chapters of the text, broken down into ten triple lesson resources:
-Chapters 1-3 - ‘Here Comes Charlie’, ‘Mr Willy Wonka’s Factory and 'Mr Wonka and the Indian Prince’
-Chapters 4-6 - ‘The Secret Workers’, ‘The Golden Tickets’ and ‘The First Two Finders.’
-Chapters 7-9 - ‘Charlie’s Birthday’, ’Two More Golden Tickets Found’ and ‘Grandpa Joe Takes A Gamble.’
-Chapters 10-12 - ‘The Family Begins to Starve’, ‘The Miracle’ and ‘What it Said on the Golden Ticket.’
-Chapters 13-15 - ‘The Big Day Arrives’, ‘Mr Willy Wonka’, and ‘The Chocolate Room.’
-Chapters 16-18 - ‘The Oompa-Loompas’, ‘Augustus Gloop Goes Up the Pipe’ and ‘Down the Chocolate River.’
-Chapters 19-21 - ‘The Inventing Room’, ‘The Great Gum Machine’ and ‘Goodbye Violet.’
-Chapters 22-24 - ‘Along the Corridor’, ’Square Sweets That Look Round’ and ‘Veruca in the Nut Room.’
-Chapters 25-27 - ‘The Great Glass Lift’, ‘The Television Chocolate Room’ and ‘Mike Teavee is Sent by Television.’
-Chapters 28-30 - ‘Only Charlie Left’, ‘The Other Children Go Home’ and ‘Charlie’s Chocolate Factory.’
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities.
Additional worksheets and templates are also provided (In both PDF and Word) to enhance a number of the deeper thinking activities.
All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across lower KS2, having being used successfully in the past with both year 3 and year 4 children.
A lively, amusing script for the Chocolate Factory the Musical. This show last around an hour to an hour and a half and will leave audiences with a huge smile on their faces. This is aimed at children in years 5 and 5 but would also be perfect for KS3. The script includes stage directions and ideas for putting the show on and will be perfect to stage a fabulous show. Comes complete with easy to follow cast list. Please leave a review!
I have written a model text to support newspaper report writing. This text is based on the story of Charlie and the chocolate factory by Roald Dahl.
I really hope that you find this resource useful and I would love to see how you use it! Please share to my instagram @teaching.in.the.sun
This is a detailed script which took hours! It combines the film, jr and theatre show together to be the best possible combination. Can be adapted to any size cast. I’ve also attached costume letters, audition scripts and other useful bits.
Fun lesson where students get to design their own chocolate bar! Guaranteed to enthuse!
Fun name the bar starter activity, links to video clips, discussion points and the design sheet.
All resources included.
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Complete PowerPoint and worksheet resources for Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
Including: introduction, synopsis, social and historial context, chapter summaries, themes, characters analysis, writer methods, exam advice, samply essays and quotations.
Complete unit of study: 10+ lessons
A list of possible English activities to do based around the the story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This list was created with year two in mind but can be easily adapted to suit year groups
An escape-room style activity based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Ages 7-11.
'Willy Wonka has released more tickets for a once in a lifetime chance to visit the chocolate factory! Will you be able to find the Golden Tickets and win your entry into Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory? ’
From answering Charlie and the Chocolate Factory trivia questions to adding together the cost of ingredients for the world’s largest chocolate bar, this is a sweet escape-room activity pack which will really get children immersing themselves into the world of Roald Dahl’s story. You might even want to reward them with some treats and sweets at the end, YUM!
What’s Included
Setting the scene powerpoint
Full instructions to set up activity
How to solve clues and complete activity
List of resources you will need, plus tips on how to enhance the experience!
All clues
Review and reflection sheet for children
File Format
PDF, Word and PowerPoint
Hot Chocolate Number Mugs 1-10
Children need to add the correct amount of marshmallows to the mug. You could also use for formation practice with hot chocolate powder!
Pack also comes with a table sign
Following reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, my Year 4 class are writing 'Augustus and the Great Glass Pipe&'. I am using this extract to identify how Roald Dahl creates tension in this section of the story.
Meduim term plans on the topic of chocolate relating to all areas of the curriculum including Charlie & The Chocolate Factory text and the Mayans. Y2 topic. Blooms Taxonomy home learning grid and topic plans for 2 terms.
A complete lesson powerpoint of writing character descriptions from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. This lesson pack includes the Lesson Powerpoint Presentation, Word Mat, Supporting Materials from the book to describe each character, Group Task Planning Sheet to plan how to write a character description and Learning Objective with its Success Criteria.
There are three photocopiable worksheets which are created by Franklin Watts for the title 'Espresso Ideas Box: Chocolate'. They include a template for a collage, a questionnaire for a chocolate factory visit and a writing frame for a diary of a day out. The activities stand alone, but using them in conjunction with the book will offer a more complete learning experience.
