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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