Year Six: Using the Punctuation Pyramid & Varied Sentence Openings to Create 'Perfect Paragraphs'

1. Please write a second draft of your description of Oliver in the workhouse.

2. Please annotate the finished second draft with a gel pen, showing me where you have used different punctuation and sentence openers.

Feeling clever? Pay particular attention to the length of your paragraphs.

Due: Tomorrow

Year Six: Varied Sentence Openings and Year Five: Writing an Action Scene using Powerful Verbs

Homework: Please write the first ten lines of a story entitled ‘Can I Have Some More?’ Use all six sentence openers.

Please complete the self-assessment for self-improvement sheet.

Due: Thursday 11th

Year Five
Please complete the 'soldiers having a play fight' task. Don't forget to use lots of powerful verbs, please.

Due: Thursday 11th

Year Six: Charles Dickens Comprehension

Want to learn more about Charles Dickens? Enjoy this brilliant animation of the life of Dickens and here to play the 'Surviving Charles Dickens' London' game.

Task: Please complete the Dickens comprehension in your book.
Due: Wednesday

P.S. Want to take part in my MixedInk experiment? Click here and add a sentence that includes a nonsense word.

(Photo by Simon Harryiott; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Bald Worm Shares a Poem a Week: Autumn Leaves

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We love poetry at Falcons Girls! Year Six are beginning their Charles Dickens unit, so let's enjoy this Autumn poem by the great man himself!

Year Six: Including Thoughts

L.O. To revise the layout of thoughts when writing in the third person

We've been studying the writing of Charles Dickens whilst revising the key characterisation techniques: dialogue, shown feelings, questions about the character - and thoughts.

Please write the following story under timed conditions (ask someone at home to time you, or use the online stopclock).

Write a story set in Victorian London entitled: 'The Handkerchief'

I'm going to be looking for your use of characterisation techniques.

Due: Monday

Year 6 - Showing Feelings & Dickens

L.O. To revise the importance of varying the presentation of shown feelings.

There is nothing that excites Bald Worm more than writers remembering to show, not tell. - but we're trying to avoid the 'speech + speech verb + feeling' pattern that can become boring in the middle of our stories by varying our use of 'shown feelings' and questions about the character'.

Homework: Write a dialogue (1/2 side of A4) using varied shown feelings based on the following scenario:

Oliver Twist is thrown out of the workhouse for asking for more food...but, in a horrible 'twist', hw is sent to live and work at Mr Bumble's house! Oh no! Write a scene showing how badly Mr Bumble treats poor Oliver.

Feeling clever? Try to include a colon and a semi-colon!

Due: Tomorrow (Thursday)

Year 6 - Redrafting Task

//L.O. To use a varied prose style when writing a short story//

You are going to redraft your 'Victorian carriage' story - and I want you to focus on making sure you have included at least one of the following:

* A fragment (1-2 word sentence)
* An impact sentence (3-4 word sentence)
* The listing comma
* The joining comma
* The bracketing comma
* Brackets
* A colon
* A semi-colon

If you manage to include all of the above then you are halfway to having an 'elegant' prose style.

Please annotate your 'finished' redraft with a gel pen, showing me where you have included each of the pieces of punctuation/sentence types listed above.

P.S. Don't forget to bring in on USB/send via email to baldworm@baldworm.co.uk/print out your homemade comprehension on Monday!

Due: Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Year Six (Thursday) Distinctive Dialogue

L.O. To use distinctive voices to develop characterisation in a dialogue

Distinctive voices can bring your characters to life!

Write a dialogue (3/4 of a side of A4) between a posh Lord and an uneducated servant - the master suspects the servant of theft.

Revise our work on distinctive voices at bald worm: http://www.baldworm.co.uk/skills/distinctive_voices.html

Feeling clever? Try to include a semi-colon somewhere in the dialogue.

Due: Friday.