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An Educator's Guide to Matilda Lesson PlanAn Educator's Guide to Matilda Lesson Plan
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Penguin Books
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3rd - 5th
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An Educator's Guide to Matilda

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Chances are, you've got some precocious Matilda fans in your class! Use a thorough set of lesson plans to address Roald Dahl's classic novel about a bright girl who just wants to be understood. Vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, and interactive projects bring the story's themes and characters right into the classroom.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

roald dahl, Vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, children's literature, reader's theater

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the extension activities as final projects for the novel
  • Have learners read the chapters on their own before coming to class for the corresponding assignments

Classroom Considerations

  • Parts of the resource are based on the Broadway adaptation of Matilda
  • Much of the plan has a colored background, making it difficult to print

Pros

  • Provides a variety of activities to address language arts skills
  • Lessons are divided by chapters to facilitate classroom instruction

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.3 RL.3.6 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RL.4.6 RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.4 RL.5.10 RF.4.3.a RF.4.4.a RF.5.3.a RF.5.4.a W.4.2.a W.4.7 W.4.8 W.4.9.a W.5.2.a W.5.7 W.5.8 W.5.9.a SL.4.1.a SL.4.4 SL.4.6 SL.5.1.a SL.5.3 SL.5.4 SL.5.6 L.4.1.a L.4.3.a L.4.5.a L.4.6 L.5.1.a L.5.3.a L.5.4.a L.5.6 RL.6.10

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