Friday 27th June 2025
Friday 27th June 2025
Use active reading strategies to understand what I read.
Read Chapter 2 of The Hodgeheg and use all of the strategies you have learned to help you make sense of it, then answer the questions below. Some are retrieval, some are inference and some are word meaning questions.
p8 What do you think ambled might mean?
p8 What does the phrase thundered past tell you about the traffic?
p8 Which words tells the reader that Max is awake at night and asleep during the day?
p9 How do you think Max feels about the traffic?
p10 What was the first shop Max saw?
p11 What type of crossing do you think Max has found?
p11 What was n top of the poles?
p11 What does the word cautiously tell us about how Max behaved?
Challenge:
Based on what you've read in this chapter, what do you think Max will do next?
Friday 27th June 2025
LC: To plan and write an innovated newspaper article based on a modelled write.
Task 1: Revisit Thursday's imitation writing on Norris the Cat and read through your work.
Task 2: Today you are going to change some of the details in your imitation writing.
Notorious Norris, the cat burglar steals jewellery, stationary, food and kitchen supplies from unsuspecting victims!
A local cat, Norris has turned to a life of crime. He began by stealing food from local bins. His actions have now escalated to stealing from neighbours’ homes, stealing clothes and women’s underwear from washing lines and entering and exiting from neighbours’ cat flaps, windows and open doors at night. His embarrassed owners have had to write to the local neighbourhood in Stoneyholme apologising for their cat’s bad behaviour.
One local resident, Mr Hussain stated, “Last Thursday, when I returned to my washing line in the evening, I was shocked to see that all my pants had been stolen. I wondered if they had blown away but then I received a letter from my neighbour telling me their cat had brought home 7 pairs of my pants! I thought it was funny.”
Local residents are still shocked that the perpetrator of their missing items is Norris the cat. Mr and Mrs Windsor have started ignoring Norris when he arrives home from a night of looting in the hope that he’ll soon drop the bad habit.
However, in the meantime, they have also requested that if anyone has items disappear mysteriously overnight, to contact them immediately.
Task 3: Now using the imitation modelled write, independently write your opening, quote and ending paragraph with your new choices.
4K Modelled write.
Notorious Nat, the rabbit burglar steals jewellery, stationary, food and kitchen supplies from unsuspecting victims!
A local rabbit, Nat has turned to a life of crime. She began by stealing food from local bins. Her actions have now escalated to stealing from neighbours’ homes, stealing food from the homeless, stealing carrots from neighbour’s gardens, taking mats from people’s front doors and taking people’s electronics. Her embarrassed owners have had to write to the local neighbourhood in Stoneyholme apologising for their rabbit’s bad behaviour.
One local resident, Mr Hussain stated, “Last Thursday, when I returned to my washing line in the evening, I was shocked to see that all my pants had been stolen. I wondered if they had blown away but then I received a letter from my neighbour telling me their rabbit had brought home 7 pairs of my pants! I thought it was funny.”
Local residents are still shocked that the perpetrator of their missing items is Nat the rabbit. Mr and Mrs Windsor have started ignoring Nat when she arrives home from a night of looting in the hope that she’ll soon drop the bad habit.
However, in the meantime, they have also requested that if anyone has items disappear mysteriously overnight, to contact them immediately.
27.06.25
To complete end of year revision section A
p. 155 - 159.
