The Twits: Descriptive Writing

Packed full of The Twits activities to develop your Year 4 class's writing skills, this four-lesson scheme of work focuses on descriptive writing.

Your KS2 class will be challenged to practise and develop their use of figurative language as they describe characters and settings. They will have the opportunity to experiment and play with language, as well as focusing on fronted adverbials. Increase the challenge as they become estate agents writing adverts in an attempt to sell Mr and Mrs Twit’s horrible house.

Creating Horrible Characters

Develop your Year 4 class's descriptive writing skills as they create and describe characters inspired by Dahl's perfectly disgusting characters of Mr and Mrs Twit. Challenge your KS2 class to use the supporting printable resources included in this complete lesson plan to create their own horrible character and use effective vocabulary choices to create a thorough description of just how horrible their character is!

Complete with a detailed lesson plan, lesson slides and accompanying resources, everything you need to teach this gruesome lesson is included in your download.

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Word Play

This fully resourced lesson gives your class the perfect opportunity to play with the language they use in their descriptive writing to create different effects. Themed around Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', your Year 4 class will be challenged to make informed improvements and changes to their writing as they complete a tricky character description.

Supported by the accompanying printable resources and lesson slides, your class will enjoy the opportunity to play with and develop their vocabulary in the context of descriptive writing.

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Fronted Adverbials

Use these Fronted Adverbials Year 4 lesson plan, slides and resources to help focus your class' learning about the use of fronted adverbials on prepositional adverbials. As your KS2 class looks at setting descriptions, they are challenged to describe the Twits’ house and garden.

They will use their understanding of descriptive language as they also experiment with the use of prepositional fronted adverbials to help them identify where the action in their sentences is happening.

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Estate Agent Adverts

Challenge your class with a slightly different take on descriptive writing as they try to make the Twit's house sound good enough to buy! Themed around Dahl's 'The Twits', your Year 4 class will become confident estate agents as they try to twist negative features into positives through their choice of words.

Touching on a few persuasive techniques, the included lesson slides challenges your KS2 class to describe features of the house in an estate agent's advert in an attempt to sell the windowless house that used to belong to Mr and Mrs Twit. They can use the included supporting resources to scaffold and inspire their writing.

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