Explore the themes of Roald Dahl’s Billy and the Minpins with these read-along resources that include extracts, literacy and art learning objectives, lesson plans and fun activity sheets.
Use these resources to bring this lesser-known Dahl tale to life, with activities for imaginative drawing, spoken language skills, listening skills, nouns and adjectives, using different senses and more.
What children will learn
- Taking part in a debate and speaking clearly to give opinions
- Planning by saying out loud what to write about
- Listening and responding appropriately to others
- Using spoken language to develop understanding through imagining and exploring ideas
- Recognising the text features of a poster
- Writing for a given purpose.
- Using a variety of sentence starters
- Writing down ideas and key words
- Using expanded noun phrases and adjectives in descriptive writing
- Writing down key words
- Using drawing to share ideas and imagination
- Designing a poster
- Using colour, texture and shape to collage
- Using the skills of colour, shape and space
- Inventing and designing a product
This download contains:
- Six lesson plans
- Activity sheets
- Extracts from Billy and the Minpins
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Billy and the Minpins – Primary lesson plans
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