Reading comprehension based on Chapter 18 ‘Down the Chocolate River.’ Questions on vocabulary, inference and how character traits are displayed.

Lesson plan and worksheet with ideas for narrative writing in the first person. Students need to read Chapter 17 of ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’ and turn the story into a first person 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 & worksheet based on Chapters 13 & 14 of the book. Work includes: reading; scanning for information; how authors use appearance, behaviour, speech and movement to portray character; comprehension questions; descriptive writing exercise.

Lesson plan & handout with the beginning of a narrative. Work includes reading activities, discussion about spies and discussion of the narrative extract, looking at how character is displayed through the writing. Finally, a narrative writing task is set.

Two separate lesson plans plus two worksheets based on Chapters 2 & 3 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Teaching Points - different purpose of text, recognising and using descriptive vocabulary, using persuasive language to create an advertisement, continuing a narrative that has been started for them. Each lesson begins with reading a chapter from the book, followed by ideas for discussion of text, use of a writing plan and own attempts at creative writing.

Detailed 90 min lesson plan - Upper Key St 2. Metaphors & Similes based on Chapter 2 of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’ Handout with exercises for students to recognise imagery, leading into own creative writing task. Working in pairs, then individually, to firstly identify metaphors and similes and then create their own.