St Paul's Catholic Primary School
A Voluntary Academy
Aspire not to have more but to be more – St Oscar Romero
English - Week 6
Commencing Monday 7th December
This week we are writing up our Manor House stories. I'll be modelling a few paragraphs each day in class, focusing on different language features. I have attached below some of the resources that you might find helpful.
I have shown below, which language features we will be concentrating on, on each day this week and I will post photos of the writing we do in class at the end of each day so that you can see how we used them.
Tuesday:
LO: To write the opening to a short story
Use your plan to help write the first two paragraphs of your own story.
Focus on: using different sentence openers (DADWAVERS); figurative language to help with powerful description (SHAMPOO); moving the adverbial phrase to different parts of the sentence, to vary sentence structure.
Wednesday:
LO: To write a short story
Use your plan to help write paragraphs 3,4 and 5 of your own story.
Focus on: using different sentence openers (DADWAVERS); figurative language to help with powerful description (SHAMPOO); using subordinate clauses in different places to vary sentence structure.
Thursday:
LO: To write the ending to a short story
Use your plan to help write the last two paragraphs of your own story.
Focus on: using different sentence openers (DADWAVERS); figurative language to help with powerful description (SHAMPOO); using short sentences and empty words to create tension.
We will be improving our stories on Thursday afternoon and writing them up next week. :)
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html
This website is good for practising the 'tricky, common exception and statutory words in the National Curriculum. Click on the year group, then on the spines of the books to practise groups of words.
Writing Activities
Here are some fun resources to help with writing:
Newspaper Reports - be a journalist covering an accident report
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L935/index.html
Creepy Verbs and Adverbs in Stories - create a horror story
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L6187/index.html
Comic Book Editing - edit a comic book story
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L1275/index.html#
Eerie Nouns and Adjectives - improve this horror story
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L6186/L6186/index.html
Riddle of the Black Panther - be the reporter investigating the mysterious, prowling black panther.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L2850/L2850/index.html
Wonderful Words, Creative Stories - improve vocabulary
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L8741/index.html