These Roald Dahl extract readings are taken from BBC Teach's Roald Dahl Day Lesson. Suitable for teaching English at KS2 in England ... which is demonstrated in this reading where we are ...

Roald Dahl was a master at creating all sorts of characters, which is demonstrated in this reading where we are introduced to seven very different characters. Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' read by Eniola ...

"Matilda!" she barked."Stand up." "Who, me?" Matilda said."What have I done?" "Stand upyou disgusting little cockroach!" "I haven't done anything,Miss Trunchbull ...

This clip can be used to demonstrate how Roald Dahl creates his characters and introduces the audience to several of them. This extract can be found in Chapter 38 of 'James and the Giant Peach'.

DOM:You can really tell that the writer, Roald Dahl, is on George's side. This is one of my favourite parts of the book, where George doesn't want his grandma to know that he's boiling her up a ...