Collaborative instruction writing... how to play... (a sport from the Commonwealth games)
Our focus text for this half term
Acting out a scene from the focus text to get a good understanding of what we think is happening
Using the world around us to inspire some similes, metaphors and expanded noun phrases.
Journey by Aaron Becker - Book Trailer
Our focus text for this half term
We won’t understand the story if we don’t understand the words first!
Researching seals for background information about the text
Creative sentence starters sticky knowledge
Making creative sentence starters using fronted adverbials
Time, manner, place and reason creative sentence starters
How big can you make an idea?
We start with an idea
and we make it like this!
"BROKEN : Rock, Paper, Scissors"
We will be practising our developed story writing skills by using this short animation as a next stimulus for writing. We will transfer some of the features we have studied this half term.
The Onomatopoeia Alphabet | Onomatopoeia for Kids | Jack Hartmann
The Onomatopoeia Alphabet by Jack Hartmann is an onomatopoeia alphabet song. Onomatopoeia is using words that imitate the sounds things make.We call them s...
Onomatopoeia words... words that make sounds
Spelling with our eyes closed!
What makes a good set of instructions? We followed some to find out...
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
If YOU were a woolly mammoth running away from bath time, where might YOU hide? How would you get a woolly mammoth down from a tree?
We write in candle light
Rhetorical Questions rant!
Sticky knowledge - rebuilding an information text and finding the features
Categorising facts into relevant subheadings
Being active readers and fixing unknown words
Playing around with conjunctions to make our sentences more exciting
Our first write in candle light
Daily reading with our reading partners
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