Roald Dahl Whole Class Reading Bundle!

These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s comprehension of several extracts from Roald Dahl texts.

There are three sessions included in total - one session each for the following Roald Dahl texts:
-George’s Marvellous Medicine
-The Twits
-The Magic Finger

Each presentation contains a link to the relevant online chapters (on the first slide). This is followed by a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. It also contains a vocabulary check immediately after the extract is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language.

The tasks are comprised of quick-check questions, solo thinking, pair/ group discussions and deeper thinking activities.

The sessions are best suited for children in years 2-3, although with minor adaptations it could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups.

This style of whole class reading, in which you are able to dip into a different text each day, is great for broadening the number of texts that children are exposed to and increasing their enthusiasm for reading.