http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-t2z3dJFDM

Authors choose language and illustrators use pictures to capture your attention, add interest to the story and keep the story moving by using various techniques, including character development and plot tension.

Roald Dahl Movies

How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.

The Twits by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

•Objective of the unit: to examine how authors and illustrators make stories interesting and to introduce the book, The Twits by Roald Dahl.

•Study one narrative, The Twits by Roald Dahl, in detail to examine techniques the author and illustrator use to make the book interesting.

•The assessment will be to write a chapter to add to the story of The Twits.

The Twits

Activity: ‘Write a short narrative about one of the characters you can see on the cover of the book, in the video or read about on the blurb.’Use the narrative structure sheet to assist you in your writing.

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