Literacy from W/B 20th April
Instructions are in RED
Reminder - All those Lexia users should be logging on from home and working through those level now. Its an ideal opportunity to improve your reading and spelling skills. Lets get to that level 18.
Friday 24th April:
1. Writing: Biography:
Today, we are going to use our plan we created on Wednesday about Katrina, the hero of Ocean-Maker.
Open the Powerpoint I've created below
(or a pdf version if you don't have Powerpoint).
Your instructions, help and checklist are all in there so please read it carefully.
Click here to download a Powerpoint
Click here to download a pdf version
Here's my example , using the plan from this week:
Katrina Wayland is a girl with many talents, and a dream to help the world she has seem fall into despair. Despite her tough experiences, She is bright and determined, with an imagination the size of a planet. Her years of struggle in a tough world, have given her a fierce bravery and a never-give-up attitude. From the early years of her life on a struggling farm in the eastern wastelands, her parents recognised her desire to learn, and to fly. She paid attention in school, blinding her classmates with her scientific knowledge and tales of taking the controls alone on her fathers crop-sprayer. As she grew older, failing crops forced her family into the city: an experience which taught her how to think for herself and be resilient – having to work hard in factories, learn new skills quickly and put bread on the table for sick parents.
However, a chance meeting with a genius inventor, gave her the opportunity to realise her dream, and together they combined their scientific skills and imagination to create the rain-maker machine. Katrina was always one to make clear decisions, and, having attracted the unwanted attention from criminals in the city who wanted the machine, made a heart-breaking decision : to leave her parents and make her way alone, back to her abandoned home, with a dream to get back in the air and make it rain – whatever the cost.
Thursday 23rd April:
1. Writing and Vocabulary:
1. This week's comprehensions again threw up lots of ambitious new vocabulary. We can use this to build up our own bank of great vocabulary for our writing... but we need to know how to spell them and what exactly they mean.
Your task:
1. Choose 6 words from the list below.
.- you can use either of the two versions.
2. Write down the word, followed by what it means - its definition. Get used to using a real dictionary if you have one - if you haven't got one at homee, you could use an online dictionary.
Challlenge 1:
Write a sentence using the word in its correct context.- so it makes sense in the situation you are writing about.
Challenge 2:
Write a complex sentence, using linking punctuation ( ; - :), using the word in its correct context.
Challenge 3:
When you have finished writing the definitions, include as many of the words as you can in one short paragraph based around our topic: Under the Sea: Mysteries of the Deep.
Obviously you will be using a full range of punctuation to help really say what you mean to say.
| merchandise | preparation | glint |
| awaken / awakened | plunge / plunged | desperate / desperately |
| engulfing / engulfed | plume / plumes | torrent |
| captivate / captivating | exclaim / exclaimed | encircle / encircling |
Wednesday 22nd April:
1. Reading:
- For those who completed: A Narrow Escape yesterday.
Mark your work carefully using the answers below.
Remember, your answerr may not be exactly the same as the one I have written, but you need to think cafrefully if your answer means the same thing.
Download 'A Narrow Escape' Answers
-- For those who completed: Sinbad yesterday.
Mark your work carefully using the answers below.
Remember, your answerr may not be exactly the same as the one I have written, but you need to think cafrefully if your answer means the same thing.
2. Creative Writing:
1. The Ocean-Maker - Katina's Story : A Pen Portrait
Today, you are going to tell us more about the hero of our film. You will be planning a 'Pen Portrait' of Katrina, telling us about her life, what hardships she faced and how she came to be in possession of the incredible rain making machine and aircraft. This is a good short introduction to biography writng, which we will do next week.
I have created my plan to show you what to do - today is about planning her story, using the film as inspiration and your own imagination. We will start to write this up tomorrow
Download the my example Katrina's Story Plan here
Download a blank planning sheet if you want to use this
Tuesday 20th April:
1. Reading:
- For those who read with Stage 4 Essential Texts: A Narrow Escape
Answer the comprehension questions below
Download 'A Narrow Escape' Questions
-- For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Sinbad
Answer the comprehension questions below
2. Creative Writing:
1. The Ocean-Maker
Carry out a full spell-check and grammar check on your 80 word description. Make sure you have exactly 80 words.
Read it through carefully now after leaving it for a day and see where you definately could fix those 'clunky' bits of writing.
Remember, it must be engaging and flow, with some powerfull description.
I know have read some fantastic work from some of you yesterday, and you have produced a final draft - if you have, write a short blurb on the back of the book 'The Ocean-Maker',, if it were to be made into an exciting, thought-provoking novel.
Be tough on yourself - have you written some boring, basic sentences,; remove these and replace them with more ambitious, adventurous description.
Monday 20th April:
1. Reading:
- For those with Stage 4 Essential Texts: A Narrow Escape
Download this text to read today - correct version is now here
-- For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Sinbad
Download this text to read today. - Corrct version is now here
2. Creative Writing:
1. This week, we are going to use an exciting but thought provoking film from the 'The Literacy Shed', called 'Oceanmaker'
Task 1 :
Watch this short film:
The Literacy Shed - Click then Scroll down and watch
Task 2: Read your task belwo, or download it on pdf here
