Literacy week 1: exploring books and stories
Day 1 challenge: write a blurb
Write blurb for your favourite book. Make sure that it is engaging and attracts people to read that book.
Day 2 challenge: Adverb hunt
Whilst reading a book write down all the adverbs you come across. Then can you find synonyms for 5 of those words and use them in a sentence.
Day 3 challenge: What is August feeling?
Read the passage above and write how you think the character of August is feeling. (If you want to continue reading, the passage is from the book 'Wonder' which was also made in to a film which some of you saw before Jono Lancaster came to visit.)
Day 4 challenge: Descriptive setting
Write a descriptive setting based on the picture above. Make sure to use lots of descriptive devices such as expanded noun phrases, similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole.
Day 5 challenge: Finish the story
Based on the picture above and the opening below write the rest of this story:
The house stood looking over an empty street as the wind blew through the leaf-less trees. It felt like.....
