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James and the Giant Peach Activities
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James and the Giant Peach Activities

3rd - 5th
Add some whim and fancy to your daily vocabulary lessons by pairing them with James and the Giant Peach! This trio of lessons has kids using their imaginations to create board games, graph moments of excitement, and infer characters' personalities through dialogue analysis. You'll find these strategies can be used for most novels. Grab them for your literature toolbox!
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Strong Descriptive Writing: James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

Strong Descriptive Writing: James and the Giant Peach

4th - 6th
Support your writers! Clear procedures and appropriate support make this a superb resource for elementary writing instruction. Ready your class to compose original descriptive paragraphs inspired by the episode in Roald Dahl's James and...
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Responding to Literature: James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

Responding to Literature: James and the Giant Peach

5th
Fifth grade reader/writers create an alternate ending to an episode in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach in which our protagonist "loses" the chance to magically solve all his problems. Prompts students not only to write creatively...
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Explorers: James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

Explorers: James and the Giant Peach

3rd - 4th
Expand readers' study of character with Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach and connect it to social studies curriculum by analyzing James as a world explorer. Readers create a character cluster (model attached) of James by citing...
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Summarizing with James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

Summarizing with James and the Giant Peach

4th - 5th
Elementary readers in literature groups practice summarizing chapter-by-chapter with Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Focus on main idea, supporting details, and the 5 Ws. Unfortunately, a clever "peach" graphic organizer to which...
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James and the Giant Peach Worksheet

James and the Giant Peach

4th - 7th
This James and the Giant Peach learning exercise provides 15 short answer questions and extension activities. They address characterization, basic reading comprehension, making personal connections to the reading, and more. The...
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Buoyancy: Integrating Science and Literature Lesson Plan

Buoyancy: Integrating Science and Literature

4th - 6th
Integrate science and literature by testing -- with scientific method -- the veracity of the floating peach described in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Clips from a Bill Nye: The Science Guy episode about buoyancy frontload...
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James and the Giant Peach Character Study Activities & Project
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James and the Giant Peach Character Study

3rd - 5th
Every book has a few great characters, but James and the Giant Peach is the only one whose characters travel in a piece of fruit. The class creates T-charts for the main characters of the novel, while reading the book. They write actions...
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James and the Giant Peach Plot Analysis Activities & Project
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James and the Giant Peach Plot Analysis

3rd - 5th
It's all about the plot, main events, and story mapping with this lesson. As the class reads the novel James and the Giant Peach, they create an excitement graph that actually charts key events and moments of excitement. After creating...
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James and The Giant Peach Vocabulary Building Activities Activities & Project
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James and The Giant Peach Vocabulary Building Activities

3rd - 5th
Reading literature is one of the best ways for kids to build a strong vocabulary while honing in on their comprehension skills. These vocabulary activities go along with the wonderful book, James and the Giant Peach. The children will...
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James and the Giant Peach Comprehensive Guide Unit

James and the Giant Peach Comprehensive Guide

3rd - 5th
You'll love this 13-page comprehension packet that goes with the book James and The Giant Peach. Each page requires learners to think, comprehend, focus on characters, make text-to-self and text-to-world connections, and build vocabulary...
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James and the Giant Peach Worksheet

James and the Giant Peach

2nd - 3rd
This puzzle includes 12 words from James and the Giant Peach that students can have fun locating. There is little research on the educational value of word searches, but young readers may enjoy doing it on their own.
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Summarizing: James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

Summarizing: James and the Giant Peach

4th - 5th
Text marking and a T-chart format to distinguish important information from trivia help elementary readers summarize effectively. Encouraging readers to construct a chapter summary from paragraph-level topic sentences is another sound...
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James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

James and the Giant Peach

4th - 5th
Here is a 19-page sample lesson that uses an interesting format. It starts with an appetizer or activity to make reading the book James and the Giant Peach fun. Then it dives into the main course or core content instruction which...
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Visualize and Draw to Increase Comprehension Lesson Plan

Visualize and Draw to Increase Comprehension

3rd - 4th
Improve readers' comprehension with a pair of visualization opportunities. First they listen, eyes closed, as you read a description from Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, and discuss ideas about what they "see." After you read...
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Encore! Reading with Expression Lesson Plan

Encore! Reading with Expression

4th - 6th
When you read aloud from Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, class members respond with "Encore!" or "No!" depending on your use, or misuse, of volume and speed as you demonstrate reading with expression. Readers then practice in...
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Complete Novel Guide: James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

Complete Novel Guide: James and the Giant Peach

3rd - 5th
Before your class reads the book James and the Giant Peach, check out this very handy set of learning activities. The reading guide provides you with several excellent ideas for building vocabulary related to the text and reading...
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Teach the Peach Activities & Project

Teach the Peach

3rd - 5th
Oh how I love a good and well-written teaching guide! Here is a great set of activities, worksheets, and comprehension questions all related to the book James and the Giant Peach. Each activity is centered on a different theme or concept...
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James and the Giant Peach Lesson Plan

James and the Giant Peach

4th
Fourth graders read James and the Giant Peach, write a chronological narrative, and complete a webquest dealing with the life of Roald Dahl.
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You're on a Gigantic Roll Lesson Plan

You're on a Gigantic Roll

3rd - 5th
Hone in on word choice and idea development. For this Six Traits of Writing lesson plan, elementary schoolers listen to and discuss the writing style of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. They emulate the story by composing a...
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Spontaneous Inventions Lesson Plan

Spontaneous Inventions

3rd
Reading out loud can be a real thrill for some, and a real issue for others. Teach your class that reading with inflection and fluency can be as easy as singing a song. They'll first analyze two Bobby McFerrin songs for intonation,...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Interactive

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

11th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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What Makes a Novel a Novel? Lesson Plan

What Makes a Novel a Novel?

3rd - 6th
As your writers prepare to do their own writing (perhaps a novel, as this worksheet suggests), they can benefit from drawing inspiration from authors and literary works they admire. Learners examine a novel they enjoyed and respond to...
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Learning with Roald Dahl Lesson Planet Article

Learning with Roald Dahl

6th - 8th
Engage critical thinking, comparison skills, and 21st century learning while celebrating a beloved author. Each idea found here provides ways to incorporate beloved Rol Dahl titles and new learning mediums.
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