Product Description
The LitWits Explorer’s Guide for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Everything in this “experience guide” comes from our unique sensory workshop on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. When kids see, feel, hear, taste, smell, and DO what the characters did, they understand more. Better yet, they want to read more.
LitWits Explorer’s Guides are web pages packed with downloadables—templates, activity aids, academic handouts, and more. (Here’s a sample, for a different book.) Because our guides live online, we can link you to useful info and audiovisuals. And you’ll always have the very latest updates! A PDF version is included for easy printing.
The LitWits Explorer’s Guide for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory includes:
- sensory prop suggestions, with photos
- creative project and activity ideas, with photos
- printable templates, excerpts, and activity prompts
- takeaway topics, to fuel meaningful conversations
- printable handouts for creative writing, the narrative arc, setting, and more
- research and audiovisual links, for one-stop prep and homework help
- great quotes from the book, where copyright allows
Want a glimpse of our hands-on style? Scroll down to get our invention prototype form!
Ages/Grades
This guide is adaptable to a wide range of ages. (See the Ways to Use tab for classroom and homeschool uses.) We find 8-12-year-olds consistently “ready to LitWit,” but you know best what your kids are ready for, interested in, and capable of.
Common Core Alignment
The LitWits experience of this book is jam-packed with carefully integrated lessons — but they’re embedded in FUN, so kids don’t feel “taught.” At a bare minimum, the use of this guide helps meet these Common Core goals:
THIRD GRADE Common Core Alignment
FOURTH GRADE Common Core Alignment
FIFTH GRADE Common Core Alignment
SIXTH GRADE Common Core Alignment
Please note that LitWits® is a registered trademark of LitWits Workshops, LLC. All LitWits Explorer’s Guides are copyrighted and may be used for non-commercial educational purposes only.
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Turn your kids into industrious Oompa Loompas with this SWEET invention prototype form! You’ll have a blast with this laughter-filled, imagination-stimulating project.
There’s even more fun (and lots to learn) in The LitWits Explorer’s Guide for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Your kids can take a factory tour and experiment with chocolate (yes) industrial art, smell delicious factory odors, create their own deserving characters, analyze “extremes,” pick up on Mr. Dahl’s gibes at American industrialism, act badly in new situations, and so much more!
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Linda (verified owner) –
What joyful fun it is to read a childhood favorite with my kids and experience the magic of Mr Wonka’s factory anew.
We gathered a few friends together to try our hand at inventing and marketing a new candy creation (Kit Activity, “Sweet Innovations”).
While we shared our tasty treats, we talked about the characters with their exaggerated faults and pondered the true gifts of life. Charlie didn’t have much but he had these – a loving family and a marvelous sense of wonder.
This kit makes reading a book together fun; it makes teaching a book a breeze (a breeze scented by chocolate and fun!)
Jenny Walicek –
Thank you Linda for letting us know that our Charlie kit made this book extra fun! (That activity was an all-around favorite, for sure.) We appreciate you!
Gary Kling –
Great Kit!
Jenny Walicek –
Thanks Gary! Great customer!