Literacy Week Beginning Monday 15th June

Day one:

Read Chapter 7 and answer the questions below

1. Why do you think Tom used short sentences to explain how to play football such "YOU! Like THIS! But NOT like THIS" and what does it tell you about how Tom was speaking when the words are written in all capitals?
2. "After less than an minute....." and "By the time..." are examples of what type of sentence opener: Adverbial opener  or   Prepositional opener
3. Why did brendan-the-bully's expression change from mean to sad?
4. Find and copy the description of what Mr Irons looks like
5. 'Handstand Hannah' is an example of what: Alliteration or Rhyming
6. What does the term 'confiscating' mean? (Pg 67)
7. What do you think Mrs Kahn meant by "some poeple can't see past the end of thier nose"?

Day Two:

In this lesson you will be trying to write descriptively by using 'ing' words as the opening word of the sentence and an 'ed' word in the middle of the sentence. Below is an example of how this would look in a piece of descriptive writing.

Write 5 sentences about the spooky picture above using 'ing' openers and add an 'ed' verb in the middle. Here are some words you could use in the sentences, but feel free to select some of your own:

ing words to be used at the beginning of the sentence
Creaking
Stretching
Strolling
Creeping
Banging
Shivering


ed words to be used in the middle of the sentence
stopped
spotted
jumped
shuddered
whistled
howled

Here is my example:

Strolling cautiously across the narrow bridge the wind whistled through the gnarled, ancient trees.


Day three:

The words below can be used as both NOUNS and VERBS in sentences. Look at the word change in these two sentences:

I received some change from the shopkeeper after purchasing a can of Coke-Zero.   Here change is a noun, it is a thing.

Quickly, I decided to change because I realised I had tomato ketchup on my shirt.    Here change is a verb, it is something you would do.


Have ago at using all of the words below in a sentence where the word is a noun and then a different sentence where the word is a verb.

Day four

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