Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

The Twits

a novel by Roald Dahl

Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the two smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the whole world — and they spend all day playing horrible tricks on each other. These Part-by-Part workbooks cover the story with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, and writing, all built on real-world cultural background.

Level 1Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

📖 Recommended edition: We follow Roald Dahl’s classic Puffin text. The revised 2023 UK editions change some wording, so a classic-text Puffin copy matches this workbook best.

Level 1 · Growing ReadersUS Grades 1–3Lexile 380–970LAR 2.9–5.6

📖 Get the right book: our workbooks follow the Puffin (paperback, Quentin Blake illus.) edition — ISBN 9780142410394. All recommended editions →

Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

👀 Perception, Tricks & the Senses

Fooling eyes, disgust, and the ‘shrinks’ illusion — the science of being tricked.

SUPPORTING

⚖️ Balance & Everyday Physics

Balloons, weights and the upside-down room — how up, down and sticking really work.

SUPPORTING

📚 Fables & Poetic Justice

Aesop, morals and the cruel getting what they deserve.

Part-by-Part Novel Study