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The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 1: the Witching Hour The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 1: The Witching Hour Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. What does ‘hesitated’ mean? 1. Why did Sophie get out of bed? 2. Can ‘brilliant’ have more than 2. What does the phrase in bold tell one meaning? you how Sophie was feeling: ‘Sophie allowed her eyes to travel...’ 3. What did Sophie decide to do? 3. What ideas are we given about the 4. Which word tells us that it was quiet in village street? the house? 4. How did Sophie react to what she saw? Challenge: Find all the words and phrases that describe movements. Challenge: Write 3 questions that you think might be in Sophie’s head at the end of the chapter. Day 3 (AF4/5) Day 4 (AF6/7) 1. Why is Sophie in a dormitory? 1. What kind of book do you think this might be, based on the first chapter? 2. Why do you think the author chose to describe the light as a: ‘silver Challenge: Imagine another child in the blade slicing through the room onto dormitory wakes up at that moment. What her face’? will Sophie say? 3. Why did the author choose to finish the chapter where he did? 4. Why do you think italics (slanted words) are used at the end of the chapter? Challenge: Compare Sophie to yourself. Explain how you are similar or different. visit twinkl.com The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 2: Who? Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. What does ‘peer’ mean? 1. How did Sophie react to seeing the giant for the first time? 2. What does ‘frozen with fright’ mean? 2. On page 7 it says that Sophie ‘crouched, 3. What happened after the giant still as a mouse, and tingling all over’. stopped at Michael and Jane What does this tell us about how she Goochey’s window? was feeling? 4. What did Sophie do when the giant Challenge: Explain why the giant noticed her? seems so scary. Challenge: Make a list of things that happen in this chapter. Day 3 (AF4/5) Day 4 (AF6/7) 1. Why does the author use capital letters 1. Which is more effective, the picture or for some words on page 5? the description of the giant? 2. Why is Sopie compared to a mouse? Challenge: Give the giant a speech bubble at the end of this chapter. What will he 3. Why did the author choose the say? Think about what he might say word ‘spurts’ to describe the giant’s to Sophie. movements? Challenge: Summarise (put into your own words) what this chapter is about. visit twinkl.com The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 3: The Snatch Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. What did the giant do to the blanket 1. Which words and phrases are used to Sophie was in? describe how scared Sophie is? 2. Look through the chapter and find 2. What does the word ‘snaking’ imply as many words or phrases for fast about the giant’s arm? movement as you can. 3. Why did the giant rearrange 3. What happened as soon as the giant the blanket? had rearranged the blanket and picked Challenge: Remember a time when you felt up his suitcase? really, really scared. What were you doing? Challenge: Imagine you are Sophie. Name 3 questions that might be in your head. Day 3 (AF4/5) Day 4 (AF6/7) 1. Why does the author use italics (slanted 1. How has the author given the words) on page 11? impression that the giant is big? 2. What do phrases such as ‘she wanted Challenge: Give the giant a thought bubble to scream, but no sound came at the end of this chapter. What is he out’ tell you? thinking he will do with Sophie? 3. Why is Sophie compared to a sack of potatoes? 4. Why do you think the author chose to end the paragraph at this point? Challenge: Plan/invent an escape from the giant’s grasp. visit twinkl.com The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 4: The Cave Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. What does ‘howling’ mean? 1. Which words and phrases are used to describe Sophie? What do these tell you 2. Where did Sophie and the giant go? about how she is feeling? 3. How can you tell that the giant had a 2. Look at page 16. What impressions do loud voice? you get of the giant’s clothing? Challenge: Imagine you are Sophie. Name Challenge: Write 3 sentences about your 3 questions that might be in your head. comparison between the giant and Sophie in activity 3. Day 3 (AF4/5) Day 4 (AF6/7) 1. Why does the author choose to tell 1. Which chapter so far has given the the reader what Sophie is thinking best description of the giant? Explain on page 15? your choice. 2. Why is Sophie ‘trembling like a leaf in Challenge: Draw a map showing the the wind’? journey that Sophie and the giant took. Use details in the text to help you draw each Challenge: Write a postcard home to a area that is described. child at the orphanage Sophie comes from. visit twinkl.com The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 5: The BFG Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. What did the giant do as he declared ‘I 1. According to the BFG, do all humans is hungry’? taste the same? Give examples. 2. What did the giant do when Sophie 2. What impression of the BFG’s teeth stammered, “P….please don’t eat me”? does the simile ‘like huge slices of white 3. Find and copy the sentence which tells bread’ give the reader? us that giants do eat humans. 3. Why did Sophie want to smile and 4. What happened at the end of laugh at the BFG’s jokes when she was the chapter? so scared? Challenge: Make a list of all the things you Challenge: How would you describe like about the BFG. the giant in no more than 50 words? Day 3 (AF4/5) Day 4 (AF6/7) 1. What is the purpose of the giant 1. Do you agree with the BFG when he speaking in such a strange way? describes himself as a ‘mixed-up Giant’? Use evidence from the chapter. 2. The BFG shouts at Sophie to stop ‘gobblefunking’. What is Sophie Challenge: Write 3 questions to ask doing and how do you think the BFG the author. feels about it? 3. Why did the author choose to wait until the end of the chapter to share the good news? Challenge: The author likes Sophie the most. True or false? Why do you think so? visit twinkl.com The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 6: The Giants Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. Why did the BFG snatch Sophie? 1. What words tell us that Sophie does not want to be in the giant’s home forever? 2. What does ‘hullabaloo’ mean? 2. Why do you think the BFG showed 3. Describe Giant Country. Sophie the giants? 4. Which words tell you that Sophie does 3. What does the phrase ‘large bellies’ not like the giants? imply about the giants? 5. What does ‘motionless’ mean? Challenge: Design a warning poster for Challenge: Make a list of the common parents to help keep their children safe features of a giant. from giants. Day 3 (AF4/5) Day 4 (AF6/7) 1. Why does the author use a mixture 1. The BFG carries Sophie to the cave of capital letters and italics in the entrance and shows her what is first page? outside. The author describes the landscape as ‘a great yellow wasteland 2. ‘Quite often I is left instead of right’, with its blue rocks and dead trees’. comments the BFG on page 27. Explain What impression does this description why the author wrote this. give us about where the giants live? 3. Summarise what you have learnt about 2. Explain why Sophie compares the BFG’s the BFG in this chapter. toes to sausages on page 28. Challenge: Use the information in this 3. Why do you think the author called his chapter to draw a picture of what you character the Big Friendly Giant? think the land of the giants looks like. Challenge: Write a diary entry for Sophie with the title ‘The Day I Saw Giant Country’. visit twinkl.com The BFG Guided Reading Questions and Activities Chapter 7: The Marvellous Ears Day 1 (AF2) Day 2 (AF3) 1. What was the punishment for breaking 1. What effect does the description of any rules in the orphanage? Sophie’s life in the orphanage have on the BFG? 2. Find and copy one word which means the same as ‘shock or surprise’ and 2. What does ‘I is never letting that describes how Sophie reacted to the happen’ on page 32 imply about the BFG’s tears. BFG’s relationship with Sophie? 3. What was the giant doing in the 3. ‘Then I is stopping right here,’ said village at night? the BFG sharply. What does the word ‘sharply’ tell you about how the BFG is 4. How are big ears important to a giant feeling? Explain what has happened. like the BFG? Challenge: Dreams are compared to 5. How do you catch a dream? butterflies here. ‘A dream is...’ Finish Challenge: List all the good things and bad this sentence. Use words that describe a things about living with the BFG.
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