Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

a novel by Roald Dahl

Mr. Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator rockets Charlie and the whole Bucket family into orbit — past a giant space hotel, the deadly Vermicious Knids, and a youth pill gone very wrong. These 6 Part workbooks cover the full novel, each with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, and writing built on real-world CLIL background.

Level 3Series #2Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

Level 3 · Fluent ReadersUS Grades 4–5Lexile 550–950LAR 3.7–5.4

📖 Get the right book: our workbooks follow the Puffin (paperback, Quentin Blake illus.) edition — ISBN 9780142410325. All recommended editions →

Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

🚀 The Science Behind the Fantasy

Orbits, re-entry, aging and negative numbers — the real science under Dahl’s wildest ride.

SUPPORTING

🛰️ The Space Race & 1970s America

Apollo, space stations and the Cold War the book gleefully satirizes.

SUPPORTING

🏛️ Satire, Presidents & Power

The bumbling President and his cabinet — Dahl’s comic jab at politics.

8-Part Novel Study