Enrichment Unit – Book Club Charlie & the Chocolate
Factory
Title: Book Club Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Grade level- 3-6
Brief course description: This book club will allow students to adventure into Mr. Wonka's Chocolate
Factory by reading the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl . Students will be engage
in daily reading with fun and exciting activities to reinforce the story and build skills.
Standards:
At least 3-5 reading and/or math MN state standards the are supported in this unit of study based on
grade level in addition to other disciplines:
Literacy Focus Benchmarks
 Use a variety of strategies to expand reading, listening and speaking vocabularies.
 Generate and answer literal, inferential, interpretive and evaluative questions to demonstrate
understanding about what is read.
 Understand the meaning of texts using a variety of comprehension strategies and will
demonstrate literal, interpretive and evaluative comprehension.
 Actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret,
evaluate and appreciate a wide variety of texts.
 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 Write narratives and other creative texts to develop real or imagined experiences or events
using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
 Distinguish, understand, and use different types of print, digital, and multimodal media
Math Focus Benchmarks
 Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving.
 Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.
 Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates with whole numbers in real-world and
mathematical problems.
 Represent and interpret data in real-world and mathematical problems.
 Represent data and use various measures associated with data to draw conclusions and
identify trends.
Describe how you will integrate math and/or literacy skills for at least 20% of unit study (see proposal
description for requirements):
Math Integration:
Students work on a probability exercise, define
probability; predict, record, and discuss outcomes
from a random drawing; and identify most likely
and least likely outcomes and work on various
fraction problems in a “Chocolate Math” Activity.
Litereacy Integration:
Reading and writing will be a daily component of
the unit as we read the story, and participate in
supporting activities that include responsive and
creative writing and drama.
Required Materials for this unit:
Class set of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Weekly Layout:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Read Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4 – 6
Chapters 7 – 9
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
“Family Portrait” activity
“Probability” activity
Draw a picture of your bedroom
and write a description of what
you have included in the drawing.
Design your own Golden Ticket.
Do your best job, as you will
have to convince the class to
choose your design for the net
movie.
As a class project, write to a
candy company. Ask them for
any free information they have
about the making of candy and
history of their business.
Persuasive speaking and writing:
Share Golden Ticket designs
with group. Have each child tell
why they think their Golden
Ticket should be chosen to use in
the next movie. Vote to chose.
Write a friendly or business letter
to Mr. Wonka. In your letter try to
convince him that you are worthy
to enter his chocolate factory.
Write your letter on stationery or
go to computer lab to word
process and add one illustration
to make your point.
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Chapters 10 – 12
Chapters 13 – 15
Chapters 16 – 18
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
“Character Mapping” activity
Willy Wonka invented all kinds of
candy and chocolate bars.
Create your own delicious treat
by designing a candy wrapper of
your candy invention. Write a
descriptive paragraph about it to
try to sell it to your peers. Include
the ingredients list.
Design Character Puppets
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/chocol
ate/charlie/charlie-activity6.htm
Continue to create another seen
with the Oopma Loompas and
act it out for the class.
Create another seen with the
Oopma Loompas and act it out
for the class. (May work in
groups.)
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Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Chapters 19 – 21
Chapters 22 – 24
Chapters 25 – 27
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
“Chocolate Math” activities
Create “Wanted Poster” for
characters.
Design a book cover for the new
edition of Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. Make sure it
has the title, author and
illustrator's names and a very
attractive and colorful picture.
Willy Wonka had several crazy
and funky machines that create
candy you never imagined you
could ever taste. Design a candy
machine of your own. Label its
parts and write an expository
paragraph on how it works.
Week 10
Chapters 28 – 30
See “Wonka Story Activities” for
lesson plan ideas and vocabulary
for week.
“Challenge Thinking” activity
Design a book cover for the new
edition of Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. Make sure it
has the title, author and
illustrator's names and a very
attractive and colorful picture.
Week 11-12
Culminating Activities:
Use the movie Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory. Show it
to the class. Discuss the
similarities and differences
between the book and movie.
Write an essay on the one you
preferred and state your reasons
Make Chocolate Goodies
You can’t read such a chocolaty
book without feeling motivated to
make some chocolate yourself.
Bring your favorite chocolate
recipe to class, and spend a
period making it together with
your students. You might try
peanut butter balls, chocolate
smores, or chocolate covered
pretzels. Make sure to bring
enough ingredients for the entire
class to make treats.
Provide recipes and ask groups
of students to double the
numbers.
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Supporting Materials (books, websites, etc):
Reading:
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl; New York: Puffin Books, 1972. This is the sequel to Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory. Find out what happens to Charlie when he has the glass elevator to use at the factory.
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick S. Catling; New York: William Morrow and Company, 1952. John finds a coin,
much like Charlie, and trades it in for chocolate. After he eats the one giant piece of chocolate, everything else he
eats tastes like chocolate, too.
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith; New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books, 1972. Henry loves chocolate
more than anyone in the world. One day he comes down with chocolate fever. Maybe Charlie Bucket should keep
this in mind!
Math- Comic Strip Math and Problem Solving by Dan Greenberg
http://mixinginmath.terc.edu/
By building on the math around us, Mixing in Math helps children and caregivers become more confident, comfortable
and competent in math. Math is in the things we do, the objects we use, the games we play, and the questions we
ask.
Web resources:
http://www.surfnetkids.com/chocfactory.htm
http://www.hersheys.com/chocworld/
http://www.hersheypa.com/herco_homepage.html
http://www.wonka.com/Loompaland/
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/charlieandthechocolatefactory.html
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