The Twits - Unit of Work

The Twits by Roald Dahl Teaching Unit - 72 slide PowerPoint, 13 worksheets and unit overview

The Twits is a brilliant scheme of work for low ability learners featuring a series of detailed lessons designed to develop pupils’ reading and understanding skills. The resource covers key areas required by the national curriculum and includes a range of activities:

• A brief biography of Roald Dahl with a short film by Michael Rosen

• A nine lesson scheme of work overview using the 4 part lesson structure

• Exploring - making predictions using the title, blurb and front cover

• Descriptive writing study - character portraits using description from the text

• Analysis of Mr Twit and Mrs Twit

• How Roald Dahl creates sympathy

• Storyboarding, comprehension and cloze exercises

• Writing empathetically as Muggle Wump

• Studying Dahl’s use of language - effective adjectives and verbs

• Understanding unfamiliar words - using a dictionary