This Lesson series is based on George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and can be done in a classroom setting.
There are 7 practical activities with Literacy tasks inserted throughout. The activities could be divided up into 3 lessons as follows:
LESSON 1
1. Warm-Up - Becoming Grandmas
2. Grandma and George - Making funny asides - Paired Activity
3. George Gets Scared of Grandma - Characterisation - Dialogue
Into Literacy - List Making In Pairs; Character Sketches; Scary Secrets; Presentations by torchlight!
LESSON 2
4. Making A Medicine - Paired Activity - Improvisation - Creating new ideas
Into Literacy - Recipes, Drawing and Labelling
5. Parent Reactions - Small Group Improvisations Presenting Scenes
LESSON 3
6. Creating Marvellous Medicines - Group Work - Inventing magical medicines, using rhymes, guessing medicine effects.
Into Literacy - Rhymes; Newsflashes
7. Antidotes - Group Work
Into Literacy - Diary Entries
We find that the writing quality is far superior after practical activity.
We recommend that you allow children to share their written work with a partner or to the class as this adds VALUE to their work.
We also recommend that you use music alongside activities and to back reading out of written work. A great free music website with our track suggestions is detailed in the lesson plans.
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