The Enormous Crocodile

The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl

Print off our fully-resourced scheme of work tailored to The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, designed to engage and challenge students with literacy activities and worksheets. This unit covers key areas of vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation, offering a comprehensive literacy learning experience for young readers.

Our differentiated scheme includes a variety of activities such as: sequencing the story, exploring adjectives, Who said it?, speech marks, nouns, verbs and adjectives and mastering punctuation. Key Stage 1 students will strengthen their understanding of ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ through targeted literacy tasks that dive deeper into the storyline of the book by Roald Dahl.

This resource pack is fully differentiated, providing printable teaching materials to support your planning and activities that cater to different abilities within your Year 1 / Year 2 class. With everything you need to accompany this whole class reading of this book, you’ll help students expand their vocabulary, develop grammar skills, and enjoy the fun and clever storytelling of The Enormous Crocodile whilst completing resources aligned with the Primary National Curriculum objectives in Literacy.

Main Focus: Adjectives

This is a worksheet that is linked to the adjectives used on the first two pages of The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, a popular book for P3 and KS1 classes to introduce your class to shorter novels.

Your class will carefully read the first two pages independently and then add in the adjectives to complete the sentences. This activity has also been differentiated.

Main Focus: Identifying Speech and Speech Marks - Pages 11-13

In this punctuation activity, your class will identify the speech in the passage or sentences taken from pages 11-13 of the book. There is also an option of adding speech marks in the spaces provided.

This is a useful resource to help your class identify direct speech within a short passage. We have differentiated this resource five ways to suit different abilities in your Year 1 / Year 2 class.

Main Focus: Questions and Statements

This resources focuses on pages 14-19 of The Enormous Crocodile and your class must recognise the difference between questions and statements and punctuate accordingly.

We have differentiated this Year 1 / Year 2 resource so your class can either add in the question marks or full stops, or they can sort by colour coding each. There are four different resources starting with the most challenging.

Once your KS1 kids have added in the punctuation, they can write questions they would like to ask Enormous Croc and something they would like to tell him, perhaps a bit of advice.

Main Focus: Who said it?

This activity focuses on pages 16-36 and your Year 1 / Year 2 class must determine who said each statement provided.

This activity includes statements from Enormous Croc, Trunky, Roll-Poly, Muggle-Wump and Toto.

This is a useful activity as it will check what your kids are retaining from what is being read in the story.

Once they have completed our resource, they can then scan through the story and challenge a partner using the same multiple choice format.

Main Focus: Comprehension - Pages 36-37

This is a comprehension activity linked to pages 36 and 37 of The Enormous Crocodile book by Roald Dahl. We have differentiated this resource for KS1 classes – Year 1 / Year 2 / P2 and P3.

Your class will read the questions and write the answers using their knowledge and comprehension skills. We have also included a multiple choice resource.

Main Focus: Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives

This is a great activity that will give your class the opportunity to show they understand the different between nouns, verbs and adjectives. We have also put in a question about proper nouns at the end of the most challenging activity.

We have differentiated this resource for a range of abilities. The children will read the passage and highlight the nouns, verbs and adjectives to distinguish them.

Main Focus: Tense Verbs - Pages 42-49

In this resource linked to pages 42-49 of the book, your class will identify the past tense verbs in the sentences. Then they will match the past and present tense verbs in the activity at the end.

Most of the verbs end in ‘ed’ but we have added a few into it to challenge your class and encourage a wider application of knowledge.

Main Focus: Story Events

We have taken a range of events from the beginning of the book to the very end for your class to recall.

Your class must complete the sentences based on their knowledge of the events. We have also differentiated this resource and included a multiple choice version too.