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Who wrote this story?
Roald Dhal
What body part of the little girl was magic?
Her finger
What was the name of the family of hunters?
The Greggs
What did the Greggs hunt?
Ducks
Who dress the pictures for this story?
Quentin Blake
What did the little girl do to her teacher?
Made her grow a tail and whiskers
What word did the teacher ask the little girl to spell?
Cat
What did the Greggs use to kill ducks?
guns
How many ducks followed the Greggs back home?
4 ducks
What about the Greggs was changed by magic?
Their arms changed to wings and they became smaller
Who moved into the Gregg's home?
the four ducks
What did the Greggs make in a tree?
a nest
What did the Greggs have to eat when they were stuck outside?
apples
How did the girl find out what happened to the Greggs?
Phillip and William told her the whole story.
How did Mrs. Gregg react when she found she had wings and she was small?
She was scared and began to cry. She told Phillip and William they were flying too high.
We can use the dialogue to make conclusions.
What does dialogue mean?
Two people talking.
You use prior knowledge and evidence from the text to draw a ____________________ (or make an inference.)
conclusion
What did Philip and William do after they became normal again?
They fed birds.
How did Phillip and William react to being ducks at first?
They liked it because they could fly.
What finally made the girl so angry she put the magic finger on the Greggs?
They carried a dead deer they had hunted out of the woods.
What was the name of the little girl's teacher?
Mrs Winter
What can the little girl not stand?
hunting
__________ vs. _______________
person vs. person
person vs. nature
person vs. self
person vs. technology
person vs. society
What point of view is the story being told from
(1st, 2nd, or 3rd?) and who is the narrator?
1st person, the girl
Quentin Blake is the illustrator. What does that mean?