"Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl Short Story PDF Text

"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl is a fun and darkly humorous text to use with students of a variety of ages! Over the years of teaching this fabulous short story, I have noticed that various PDF versions often have many typos, misspellings and grammatical errors that can be distracting and confusing for students. However, I did find a full text version, thanks to classicshorts.com! You can access their version of it here:

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

All I did was copy and paste the text and make it a little more format friendly for students.

Also, over my PDF literary travels, I have noticed that there are two slightly different versions of this story online. The one posted here is a little bit higher level than the other I have seen; it is also a few paragraphs longer.

I hope you find the download useful and you and your students enjoy Dahl's humor and irony!

If you are looking for any additional resources to use with "Lamb to the Slaughter" then please check out my lesson plan for it.

Happy teaching!

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