Develop and extend your KS2 class’s reading and writing skills using the classic story of ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl. Inspired by the two gruesome characters and their horrible habits, these The Twits lesson plans challenge your children to write instructions, non-chronological reports, playscripts and descriptions, as well as developing their reading skills in these fun and revolting themed lessons.

#TheCompleteEnglishPack20lessons

All 20 of these The Twits lesson plans in this complete English planning pack come completely planned and ready to deliver to your class with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, slides for the teaching input and printable resources, giving you all you need to teach a gruesome Twits-themed English topic that your children are sure to love without having to spend lots of your own time planning!

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#AllREADINGCOMPREHENSIONLessonsinPack

If you're looking for The Twits comprehension lessons for KS2, you've come to the right place! Download a series of ready-to-teach The Twits reading comprehension lessons to help your class read, understand and re-tell the gruesome story of Mr and Mrs Twit!

Your Year 4 class will be challenged to write character descriptions, summarise chapters, make predictions, use relevant information in their answers, and create role-plays based on the knowledge and understanding they gain throughout this The Twits comprehension scheme of work.

With five fun-filled lessons, each with detailed plans, engaging slideshows and differentiated worksheets and activity ideas, this The Twits reading comprehension pack is a perfect way to help your class become more familiar with two of Roald Dahls' most revolting characters!

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#AllDESCRIPTIVEWRITINGLessonsinPack

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.

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#AllPLAYSCRIPTSLessonsinPack

This complete The Twits play script KS2 planning pack gives you everything you need to help your Year 4 class to change a narrative scene into a play script. They will take inspiration from the beloved story of 'The Twits' by Roald Dahl, focusing on the gruesome tricks that the characters play on one another.

Your class will have the opportunity to revisit their understanding of direct speech and how to punctuate it accurately before moving on to investigate playscripts, their features and how to write an effective script.

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#AllINSTRUCTIONSLessonsinPack

This writing instructions KS2 English planning pack invites you and your class to enter the rather revolting world of Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'!

Use these three writing instructions KS2 lessons to first analyse different sets of instructions and identify common features, before challenging your class to plan and write their own instructions, inspired by events in 'The Twits'.

Download this Year 4 English planning pack now, and receive everything you need (detailed plans, engaging presentations, differentiated worksheets and activity ideas) to teach three fantastic Twits-themed lessons!

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#AllNONCHRONOLOGICALREPORTSLessonsinPack

This fun and informative non-chronological reports KS2 planning pack based on Roald Dahl's 'The Twits' will help you to guide your Year 4 class through the various stages of writing a non-chronological report.

During these four English lessons, your children will first explore the features of non-chronological reports, then generate their own facts about an animal (either real and imaginary!) from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', before planning and writing their own report, with a focus on the use of fronted adverbials.

This non-chronological reports KS2 scheme of work includes everything you need for four fun-filled lessons: detailed plans, engaging slideshows, and differentiated activity ideas and worksheets.

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#Lesson1ReadingComprehensionTheTwitsCharacters

Your Year 4 class will have a chance to meet and explore the Twits characters in the first lesson of this The Twits reading comprehension series! Your children will read the first four chapters of Roald Dahl's book together, and then answer some comprehension questions to assess their understanding.

In their independent activities, children will then look more closely at the characters of Mr and Mrs Twit, and write descriptions or answer questions using their retrieval and deduction skills. Alternatively, children draw a picture of one of the Twits characters based on the text, and surround it with descriptive words and phrases chosen from the text.

This Twits character description lesson for KS2 children comes completely planned and ready to deliver to your class with a detailed lesson plan, a fun, engaging slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support children as they carry out their independent activities.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Word Bank
Extract Sheets
Portrait of a Twit Sheet

#Lesson2ReadingComprehensionSummary

In this Writing a Summary KS2 lesson, children first recap on the gruesome characters of the Twits before reading the next three chapters of the book together.

Your class will demonstrate their understanding of the main events by answering comprehension questions, before discussing the 'dos and don'ts' of writing a summary. In their independent activities, children are challenged to write their own summaries of a given chapter. Alternatively, they are tasked to read and analyse a range of given summaries, discussing and deciding which is the best, and why.

This Writing a Summary KS2 lesson pack contains a detailed plan, a comprehensive set of slides for the teaching input, and differentiated worksheets and activity ideas to suit a range of abilities.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Extract Sheets
Summary Checklist
Summary Selection Cards

#Lesson3ReadingComprehensionPredictions

In this Making Predictions KS2 English lesson plan, your class will first discuss their opinions of the Twits' behaviour towards each other, based on what they have read so far.

They then read the next six chapters of the book, and as a class, discuss the answers to a range of comprehension questions. Children are asked to predict what might happen in the following chapter, and explain their reasoning. In the FSD? activity, they are challenged to create a short role-play to show what they predict might happen.

This ready-to-teach Making Predictions KS2 lesson pack includes a plan, an engaging slideshow and differentiated worksheets - (almost!) everything your class will need to predict what the gruesome twosome will do next!

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Prediction Cards
Role-play Challenge Cards

#Lesson4ReadingComprehensionHowtoAnswerComprehensionQuestions

Develop your children's skills of how to answer comprehension questions effectively and concisely with this The Twits Reading Comprehension lesson.

After reading the next eight chapters of the book together, your class are asked to think about what a good answer to a comprehension question should include, and are challenged to assess a range of different answers to a given comprehension question. Applying this skill in their independent activities, children write, share, edit and improve answers to comprehension questions.

Complete with a detailed plan, a set of slides for the teaching input and differentiated worksheets for independent activities, this Year 4 English pack has everything you need for a successful lesson.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Discussion Cards
Comprehension Sheet
Answer Checklist
Question Cards

#Lesson5ReadingComprehensionHotSeating

Use this Hot Seating KS2 lesson to challenge your class to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'.

After reading the last chapters of the book together, children first take part in a warm-up group activity where they are challenged to match up a range of different questions and answers. They are then tasked to devise their own questions for the Twits, and use hot-seating and role-play to answer them in character.

Download this Hot Seating KS2 lesson pack, which contains everything you need to teach a great 'The Twits'-themed lesson - a detailed plan, an engaging slideshow and differentiated activity ideas.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Question & Answer Cards
Differentiated worksheets
Twit Talk Show Name Tags
Question Slips
Speech Bubble Template

#Lesson6DescriptiveWritingCreatingHorribleCharacters

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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Lesson plan
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Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheet
Word bank
Item sheet

#Lesson7DescriptiveWritingWordPlay

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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Lesson plan
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Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheet
Word play cards
Text cards

#Lesson8DescriptiveWritingFrontedAdverbials

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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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Extract card
Fronted adverbial sheet
Differentiated worksheets
Picture card

#Lesson9DescriptiveWritingEstateAgentAdverts

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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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Positive phrases
Estate agent phrases

#Lesson10PlayscriptsDirectSpeech

This direct speech KS2 lesson plan allows your class the chance to revisit their understanding of direct speech and how to punctuate it accurately as they create their own chapter describing the next horrible trick that Mr and Mrs Twit played on each other.

The children are challenged to develop and share their ideas as a class. Complete with everything you need, this lesson pack has lesson input slides, activity ideas and printable resources to help your class punctuate direct speech correctly.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Extract cards
Worksheet
Speech card

#Lesson11PlayscriptsFeaturesofaPlayscript

Use this complete Features of a Playscript KS2 lesson pack to investigate and analyse the different features of playscripts with your Year 4 class. Using the lesson input slides provided, challenge the children to compare the features of a playscript to features of other genres of writing. The model text included with this lesson pack can be used to aid discussion around this genre of writing and help your class idenitfy successful features.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Line cards
Model text
Playscript card
Extract card

#Lesson12PlayscriptsConvertingaNarrativetoaPlayscript

Discuss and practise the process of changing a narrative text into a playscript using these in-depth slides and resources to support your class in writing a playscript based on a chapter from ‘The Twits’.

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Lesson plan
Slides
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Worksheet
Challenge card
Extract card

#Lesson13PlayscriptsPerformingandEditing

In this final lesson, your class will look for ways to improve a script using their own performances to influence their decisions. They are challenged to perform the scripts in order to spot areas that can be improved and provide peer feedback to their classmates.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Peer feedback card
Editing cards

#Lesson14InstructionsFeaturesofInstructions

In this Features of Instructions KS2 lesson plan, based on Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', your class will begin by exploring different examples of instructions, identifying the main features of this genre.

In their independent activities, your Year 4 class are challenged to demonstrate their understanding by annotating given instruction texts, and discussing the purpose of each feature.

This Features of Instructions KS2 lesson pack includes a comprehensive plan, a set of engaging slides and differentiated worksheets to suit all abilities within your class.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Instructional Text Examples
Differentiated worksheets
Features Labels and Cards
Recipe Cards
Question Cards

#Lesson15InstructionsPlanningInstructions

In this 'The Twits' lesson plan, your Year 4 children will first recap on the main features of instructional texts by playing a game entitled, 'Odd One Out'.

Children will then discuss the importance of these features before using this knowledge when planning their own set of instructions, based on a particular event from 'The Twits'.

This Year 4 English lesson on planning instructions includes an easy-to-follow plan, a set of engaging slides for the teaching input, and printable, differentiated worksheets.

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Differentiated worksheets
The Frog' Extract Sheet
The Wormy Spaghetti' Extract Sheet
Mrs Twit Gets a Stretching' Extract Sheet
Imperative Verbs List
Challenge Cards
Recipe Planning Sheets

#Lesson16InstructionsWritingInstructions

Use this Fronted Adverbials Year 4 lesson plan, themed around Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', to show your class how to make their instructions interesting and engaging for the reader by varying the sentence structure.

As a class, they will explore different examples of fronted adverbials, and discuss the effect their use can have on both sentences and a text overall. Children are then challenged to apply this knowledge and understanding to write their own set of instructions inspired by an event in Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'.

This ready-to-teach Fronted Adverbials Year 4 lesson pack includes a detailed plan, a slideshow presentation for the teaching input, and differentiated worksheets and activity ideas.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Features Checklists
Recipe Template Sheets
Tasty Twit Treats Recipe Book Cover

#Lesson17NonchronologicalReportsIdentifyingFeatures

Download and use this features of non-chronological reports KS2 lesson plan to ensure your Year 4 class can identify and explain each feature of this particular genre of writing.

Challenge your class to read, identify and highlight the different features within a given report, or, in the alternative activity provided, children analyse three reports, identifying which features have been used and which are missing in the text.

Containing a detailed lesson plan, an informative slide presentation, and differentiated worksheets, this features of non-chronological reports KS2 planning pack has everything you need for a fantastic English lesson!

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Section Cards
The Lilac-Breasted Roller Reports
Checklist Sheet

#Lesson18NonchronologicalReportsGeneratingFacts

Download this Non-chronological Reports Year 4 English Lesson Plan, where children focus on generating facts for a report on an imaginary animal from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'. In the alternative activity, they will gather facts about an African monkey by reading and selecting information from given sources.

Included within this The Twits lesson pack is a detailed plan, an engaging slideshow and differentiated worksheets - everything you need for a successful lesson!

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Prompt Questions Card
Giant Skillywiggler Fact Slips
The Roly-Poly Bird Fact Slips
Information Cards
Vervet Monkey Factsheet

#Lesson19NonchronologicalReportsPlanningaReport

In this non-chronological report planning lesson, your KS2 children first discuss the importance of making a plan before writing.

Then, they sort the fact slips from the previous lesson into groups according to given sub-headings, and use this information to plan their report about one of the imaginary animals from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'. In the alternative activity, children use the information they gathered in the previous lesson to plan a non-chronological report on the African vervet monkey.

Included within this The Twits lesson pack for Year 4 is a detailed plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, and differentiated worksheets to support all abilities within your class.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Fact Station Cards
Differentiated worksheets

#Lesson20NonchronologicalReportsWritingaReport

In this final Non-chronological Report KS2 lesson, children explore how they can make their writing interesting and engaging for the reader by using carefully chosen descriptive vocabulary and varying their sentence structure.

Using this knowledge, they will then write their non-chronological report, inspired by the animals in Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', using their plans from the previous lesson.

Including a detailed lesson plan, an informative set of slides and differentiated worksheets, this Writing a Report lesson pack contains everything you need for a successful lesson!

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Report Templates
Checklist Cards
Picture Cards

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Reading - Comprehension Objectives:

listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these
participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say

Writing - Transcription SPELLING Objectives:

write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught so far

Writing - Composition Objectives:

discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
discussing and recording ideas
composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures (English Appendix 2)
organising paragraphs around a theme
in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
in non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]
assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear

Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Objectives:

extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although
using fronted adverbials
using commas after fronted adverbials
using and punctuating direct speech

English Appendix Objectives:

Fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news.]
Use of paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme
Use of inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech [for example, a comma after the reporting clause; end punctuation within inverted commas: The conductor shouted, “Sit down!”]
Use of commas after fronted adverbials
adverbial