The Twits by Roald Dahl

During Term 1 and the beginning of this term we have been reading and learning about The Twits.  If you enjoyed the book, the whole thing can be listened to on You Tube as an ebook.  Just search for The Twits audio book within You Tube. 


 We have been doing lots of interesting activities and writing character descriptions for Mr and Mrs Twit. The descriptions included an opening sentence, a description of what the character looked like and their personality.  My aim was to help the children write more descriptive sentences and to join several ideas together with commas or joining words like and  or because.

Here are a few work samples.

Mr Twit   By Hannah L

Mr Twit is one of the main characters in The Twits.  He is cruel, disgusting, foul and smelly.  Mr Twit is mean and ugly because he has stuff in his beard.  He has hair in his nose.  Mr Twit is sixty. He is mean because he has bird pie every Friday. He is mean to little boys when he has no bird pie for dinner.

Mr Twit  By Luka

Mr Twit is one of the main characters in The Twits by Roald Dahl.  He is a rotten, disgusting, mouldy, slimy old man.  Mr Twit has spiky whiskers like thorns because he never shaves his beard.  He is very old, foul, smelly and ugly man.  Mr Twit is cruel because on Friday he has bird pie for dinner.  When there are no birds on the tree he gets really, really cranky.   He is very bad tempered when Mrs Twit does sneaky tricks on him.  

Mr Twit  By Callum

Mr Twit is one of the main characters in The Twits by Roald Dahl.  Mr Twit is a disgusting twit.  He never washes his beard or shaves it.  Mr Twit is mean and horrible.  Mr Twit is evil and cruel when he makes his monkeys go on their heads.  He is grumpy when Mrs Twit makes him mad.

Mr Twit   By Joshua

Mr Twit is one of the main characters by Roald Dahl.  He is foul, cruel and disgusting.  He has a bad temper when Mrs Twit plays tricks.  He is mean to the birds.

Mr Twit  By Zoe

Mr Twit is one of the main characters in The Twits by Roald Dahl.  He has a big hairy face with food in the beard.  Mr Twit is a disgusting and rotten old man.  He is so disgusting that he has hair coming out of his nostrils and ears.  Mr Twit is rotten.  Mr Twit is very bad tempered when he has a trick played on him.  He has a disgusting wife that he plays tricks on.

Mr Twit  By Melina

Mr Twit is one of the main characters in The Twits by Roald Dahl.  He is very hairy and he never brushes his hair.  He is disgusting and slimy.  He is horrible.  Mr Twit is the badest man in the world because he catches lots of birds for his pie.  Mr Twit is bad tempered because Mrs Twit puts a glass eye ball in his cup.

Mr Twit  By Joseph

Mr Twit is one of the main characters in The Twits by Roald Dahl.  He is a disgusting , foul, old man.  Mr Twit never washes his beard.  He is disgusting because he has mouldy cheese in his beard.  Mr Twit hates the Roly Poly Bird because it gave him the shrinks.  He is mean to Muggle Wump and his family.

The Twits is a junior novel or chapter book with very few illustrations.  The drawings in the book are black ink, fine line drawings.  The children drew coloured pictures of what they thought Mr Twit looks like.  Here are a few samples.

We enjoyed the author so much we have moved on to another of his books called James and the Giant Peach.  It gives us examples of even more fantastic characters and uses wonderfully descriptive language.  Our class in compiling a list of new words we are discovering through this novel study.