A textual analysis worksheet focusing on the description of The BFG’s Cave. This resource allows students to analyse a simple piece of text and highlight relevant words in order to answer the comprehension questions. It also includes a fun jar visual for a drawing task.

This resource contains a grid of adjectives and descriptions which correspond with the characteristics of The BFG and Bloodbottler. The activity requires them to use previous knowledge or deduction to sort the relevant words/descriptions into the correct side of the table for The BFG or Bloodbottler. *INCLUDES BONUS CHART OF NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS FOR CHARACTER AND OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE TEXT. * This resource offers students the opportunity to vary and extend their vocabulary and further apply it to their writing for future lessons.

These phonics activities focus on the oo, oa and ai sounds. They are designed to help students identify and differentiate between the long vowel sounds. The phonics worksheets include cloze activities for words containing the oo sound and allow students to identify and match oa words to their definitions. The ai phonics worksheet allows students to construct their own sentences. These phonics resources help students to raise their literacy levels through engaging exercises which are accessible and allow them to increase their confidence levels before moving on to more advanced phonics sounds. This resource is suitable for KS2 learners as well as lower ability SEN learners at KS3 as an aid to help raise literacy achievement. Contains three worksheets.

The Tortoise and the Hare Adjective Grid enables teachers to check for students’ understanding of the characteristics of both animals in the tortoise and the hare fable. Students match the given adjectives to the correct column which corresponds to each animal. Make this a practical activity by getting the students to cut and stick the words into the columns instead of writing them down. Extension activity ideas: Students can use dictionaries for definitions of adjectives they are unsure of. Students can write definitions for the adjectives in their own words. Students can demonstrate their understanding of the adjectives by putting them into a sentence. This is an ideal visual resource for key stage 2 students or SEN Key stage 3 students.

This cloze activity focuses on the eating habits of The BFG and the other giants alongside other basic facts and enables students to draw conclusions on whether they are friendly creatures or not. The resource also contains three open ended questions on The BFG’s perceived kindness, empathy for Sophie and the challenges of Giant Country as an environment for human beings.