Thursday 15th May

LC: to create an effective setting using expanded noun phrases, simile starters and portmanteau words

 

Let's think about the setting for our narrative write. 

 

Watch the video and make some notes on the setting. 

 

Where does the scene take place?

What time of day is it?

What is the weather like?

 

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 Now look at the images below.

Choose one that you feel you can write about for

the setting of our story.

 

Setting 1

Setting 2

Setting 3

Setting 4

Setting 5

 

 

 

 

Glue your picture into your book and make some notes around the image to describe the setting.

 

Use 

 

- expanded noun phrases

- adjectives

- strong verbs 

 

Use these ideas to complete sections 1 and 7 of your plan.

LC: To be able to describe the position of a shape following a translation.

Complete the RIC.

R     What caused Joe's life to change?

   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

I     How do you think that the other readers of Billionaire's Weekly will feel when they read Joe's letter?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

C  Find and copy two words which mean the same as 'extremely' and 'insanely'.

___________________________________________________________________________________

 

LC: to summarise main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identify key details which support this

 

Do you remember what summarising is? 

Let's look at how we outlined the main points of Chapter 1.

 

Chapter 1

What strategies did we use to condense the information into as few sentences as possible?

Tell your talk partner.

 

Re read Chapter 2 of the story then, with your talk partner, discuss and note on your whiteboards

the main points of the chapter.

 

Now we will compile a shared summary of this chapter using the ABC prompts to respond to each others' ideas.

 

 

 

LC: To be able to describe the position of a shape following a reflection.