Free teaching resource for Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. Printable.
'Esio trot' is 'tortoise' backwards. Pupils write five other words backwards and challenge a partner to decode them. Then write a short 'magic spell' using backwards words.
Pupils write the letter Mr Hoppy might have written to Mrs Silver if he had been brave enough to be honest from the start. What would he have said? How would he have felt writing it?