Saturday 13th September is Roald Dahl Day 2008!
It’s your chance to celebrate one of the funniest, most creative and unorthodox children’s authors that ever lived!
Bring some Dahl into your classroom
Our Educational magazine teams have come up with some great ideas for Dahl Day celebrations. Check out Junior Education PLUS for starters: they have some great literacy activities, some ICT ideas and some chocolate-packed fun inspired by a certain famous children’s story!
Meanwhile, Literacy Time PLUS magazine feature ideas for some thought-provoking investigations into biographical writing, including an extract from Dahl’s autobiography, Boy.
There is lots more Roald Dahl material available to view online at Education PLUS too.
See your writing published online
We’re offering three children the chance to see a piece of their writing published on this website. To enter, simply write a poem or short story based on your favourite Roald Dahl book or character. Stories and poems can be any length and may be by any number of authors – even a whole class. The winning entry in each age group will be published on this website at the end of October. The age categories are: 4–7 years, 8–11 years and 12–16 years.
Entries should be sent by email to competitions@scholastic.co.uk. Please include the name and age of each entrant in your email and mark your entry ‘Roald Dahl Writing Competition’. Each entry may include one small piece of artwork to accompany the story: artwork should be submitted as a JPEG file under 1.5MB in size. Entries close on 12th October 2008.
Win one of 25 interactive resources
Stuck for ideas about how to teach Dahl? We’re giving away 25 copies of our Read and Respond Interactive resource for Roald Dahl’s The Twits. To win a copy, simply email competitions@scholastic.co.uk telling us which Roald Dahl books you would like to see more teaching resources for, and why. Make sure you include your full name and postal address in the email and mark your entry ‘Twits Competition’. The competition closes on 12th October 2008.
Read and Respond Interactive are rich digital resources designed to get children really engaged in classic books including Kensuke’s Kingdom, Farmer Duck and We’re Going On A Bear Hunt. Each Read and Respond Interactive includes text extracts, author biographies, images and interactive whiteboard activities. You can explore the entire Read and Respond Interactive series at our Teacher’s Shop where you will also find a host of other Roald Dahl resources.
News Flash!
It’s an exciting time at Scholastic because FOUR funny reads from Scholastic Children’s Books have made the shortlist of the 2008 Roald Dahl funny prize. Find out more in our news release