This document provides context and questions about the short story "The Wish" by Roald Dahl. It discusses how the title allows for predictions about the story. It then shows a series of cards with different colors and asks students to predict what each color might represent individually and collectively in the story. After reading a page of the story, students are surprised by what the colors collectively represent. The document aims to explore students' predictive reading skills and have them review what they learned about Dahl's writing style and the central character from the story.
This document provides context and questions about the short story "The Wish" by Roald Dahl. It discusses how the title allows for predictions about the story. It then shows a series of cards with different colors and asks students to predict what each color might represent individually and collectively in the story. After reading a page of the story, students are surprised by what the colors collectively represent. The document aims to explore students' predictive reading skills and have them review what they learned about Dahl's writing style and the central character from the story.
This document provides context and questions about the short story "The Wish" by Roald Dahl. It discusses how the title allows for predictions about the story. It then shows a series of cards with different colors and asks students to predict what each color might represent individually and collectively in the story. After reading a page of the story, students are surprised by what the colors collectively represent. The document aims to explore students' predictive reading skills and have them review what they learned about Dahl's writing style and the central character from the story.
Exploring Possibilities Using your skills of prediction, you will be shown a series of four cards – each of them focusing on a colour. All of these colours play an important part in the story. Try to predict in groups what each colour might represent?
Using the Venn Diagram to help you,
consider the possibilities of what each colour might represent individually and then collectively. What might the colours collectively represent? Making imagination become reality Roald Dahl, in The Wish, demonstrates a great ability to allow his characters, and us as readers, to loose themselves in the world of imagination. He demonstrates this, in part, through the colours he chooses to use in this story as metaphors. Dahl, like many great writers succeeds in taking a truly ordinary household item and creating from it an extraordinary world which exists in the imagination of the central character and in the minds of his readers.
Now read page 255 of the story to discover
what these colours collectively represent. Surprised? Manipulating Reading Skills
Which reading skills will be the best to use to establish
the meaning of any unfamiliar vocabulary you have just discovered in the passage you have read?