Tuesday 6th January
Grammar Warm Up
LC: to identify adverbials to link ideas
Look at the adverbials in this paragraph.
What is their purpose?
What do they do in the sentence?
At first, Ali was nervous about the test. He took a deep breath and then picked up his pencil. Next, he opened the test paper and wrote his name. Then he slowly read through each of the questions. After that, he began to feel a bit calmer and finally, in the end, was able to finish all the questions.
LC: to identify dialogue within a text and its purpose
Talk to your partner.
- In a fiction text, what is dialogue?
- Why do writers include dialogue in a story?
Let's read until page 10.
- What is the purpose of the dialogue in this section of text?
LC: To be able to add unlike fractions where the sum is greater than 1, creating mixed numbers or improper fractions.
LC: To describe the Sun, Earth and Moon (using the term spherical).
Can we use our observational skills to describe the shape of the Sun, Earth and Moon?
How can you sort the objects on your table?
Is there only one way of sorting?
Why are the Sun, Moon and Earth round?
What shape are the Earth, Sun and Moon?
On Seesaw take photos of the spherical and non-spherical shapes and place them in the appropriate box.
Why are the Earth, Sun and Moon that shape?
In your own words write a paragraph explaining the shape of the Earth, Sun and Moon and why they are this shape.
Read the links below and add any extra facts that you find interesting about the Earth, Sun and Moon.
LC: To know Rare GPCs.
GPC stands for Grapheme–Phoneme Correspondence.
A rare GPC is a grapheme–phoneme correspondence that doesn’t appear very often in everyday words, or is less common than other spellings for the same sound.
In other words: it’s an unusual way of spelling a sound.
Examples of rare GPCs
Here are some common sounds with rare spellings:
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/f/ → ph (as in phone)
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/k/ → ch (as in school)
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/ʃ/ → ch (as in chef)
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/ee/ → ie (as in field)
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/s/ → ps (as in psychology)
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/z/ → x (as in xylophone)
1. We are going to orally segment this word:
'guarantee'
2. Write it on your white boards and tell me which grapheme is tricky.
3. Which strategies can we use to remember this tricky part?
I would like you to record the following words in your books and use the steps above for each word:
immediately
vehicle
yacht