This is a week’s worth of planning, resources and SMART boards for The Twits by Roald Dahl. I have planned this for my Year 2 class but it could be adapted easily. It focuses on meeting the Twits and describing them, with a SPaG activity too. It all comes in word and PDF format.
This is the second week of planning, resources and SMART boards based around The Twits by Raold Dahl. It covers descriptive writing, creating a wanted poster, writing instructions and SPaG elements. It follows on from the week 1 also uploaded. It is all available in PDF and word format and uses the story from the beginning to the frog chapter.I have used this successfully with Y2 but it could be adapted easily.
This is two lesson toppers to support the teaching of The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson. It focuses on writing a letter from the animals to the Highway Rat and then a reply the following day. It comes in an editable word document and a PDF format.
This is an activity that focuses on applying adjectives to the items from The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson to create noun phrases. It comes in a word and PDF format.
This a a writing topper for a lesson focused on describing the Highway Rat. It features an editable success criteria and space for a L.O/I can statement.
This resources is two toppers for retelling The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson with success criteria and story map embedded. It contains an editable word version and PDF version.
This is an activity that gets the children to think about what would be in their own dirty beard, based upon Mr Twit’s from The Twits by Roald Dahl. They draw and label their ideas before describing their dirty beard. I use this with Year 2 and stick in the topper for them to fill in before writing their description underneath. It comes in a word and PDF format.
This is a writing topper for describing the setting from The Storm Whale by Benji Davies. It has an image and space for a success criteria. It comes in a word format and PDF format.
This resource gives children to opportunity to edit a retell of the Storm Whale, focusing on correcting punctuation and spelling. It comes in PDF and word form.
This is an activity focused on writing sentences to describe how the characters in Supertato are feeling and what they are thinking. It comes in an editable word document and a PDF document.
This is a resource that focuses on children describing what they believe could be on the beach in The Storm Whale by Benji Davies. It has space for a success criteria and a box to sketch their idea in.
This is a SPaG activity focusing on word classes as part of a unit on The Twits by Roald Dahl. It involves children placing words from the text into the correct word classes. It comes in an editable word and PDF format.