This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda.’ Double and triple lessons are provided for each chapter, broken down into ten resource packs: Chapters 1 and 2 - ‘The Reader of Books’ and ‘Mr Wormwood, the Great Car Dealer’ Chapters 3 and 4 - ‘The Hat and the Superglue’ and ‘The Ghost’ Chapters 5 and 6 - ‘Arithmetic’ and ‘The Platinum Blond Man’ Chapters 7 and 8 - ‘Miss Honey’ and ‘The Trunchbull’ Chapters 9 and 10 - ‘The Parents’ and ‘Throwing the Hammer’ Chapters 11, 12, and 13 - ‘Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake’, ‘Lavender’ and ‘The Weekly Test’ Chapters 14 and 15 - ‘The First Miracle’ and ‘The Second Miracle’ Chapters 16 and 17 - ‘Miss Honey’s Cottage’ and ‘Miss Honey’s Story’ Chapters 18 and 19 - ‘The Names’ and ‘The Practice’ Chapters 20 and 21 - ‘The Third Miracle’ and ‘A New Home’ 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 where needed for the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across KS2 (I originally used them with year 4 and 5 classes).

This ‘Stig of the Dump Huge Bundle’ contains all of the Stig of the Dump lessons, plus the knowledge organiser and the comprehension booklet. A double-length lesson is provided for each of the chapters, enabling students to develop a secure understanding of the text: -Chapter 1: The Ground Gives Way -Chapter 2: Digging with Stig -Chapter 3: It Warms You Twice -Chapter 4: Gone A-Hunting -Chapter 5: The Snargets -Chapter 6: Skinned and Buried -Chapter 7: Party Manners -Chapter 8: Midsummer Night -Chapter 9: The Standing Stones In each lesson, children are guided through the lesson via a colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, which includes a range of thought-provoking activities and model examples/ answers. The tasks are comprised of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, summarising, explaining and deeper thinking activities. Templates are also provided for a number of the creative activities. There’s a lot in the each lesson and so you may wish to either select the content that is pertinent to you/ your class or spread each lesson resource over two sessions. The resources are ideally pitched for children in lower KS2, but could feasibly be used with slightly older or younger children, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

This lesson bundle contains all 9 of the Stig of the Dump lessons, which aid students in developing a secure understanding of each of the chapters: -Chapter 1: The Ground Gives Way -Chapter 2: Digging with Stig -Chapter 3: It Warms You Twice -Chapter 4: Gone A-Hunting -Chapter 5: The Snargets -Chapter 6: Skinned and Buried -Chapter 7: Party Manners -Chapter 8: Midsummer Night -Chapter 9: The Standing Stones In each lesson, children are guided through the lesson via a colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, which includes a range of thought-provoking activities and model examples/ answers. The tasks are comprised of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, summarising, explaining and deeper thinking activities. Templates are also provided for a number of the creative activities. There’s a lot in the each lesson and so you may wish to either select the content that is pertinent to you/ your class or spread each lesson resource over two sessions. The resources are ideally pitched for children in lower KS2, but could feasibly be used with slightly older or younger children, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.