Year Six Descriptive Writing Homework

1. Please write a longer description of a castle in five paragraphs. (1 side of A4)

2. Please complete the 'self-assessment for self-improvement'

3. Make sure you know your lines for the play perfectly.

Due: Wednesday

Year 5: Writing a Longer Description

We have been learning about how to plan a longer description. If you're not careful, descriptions of 200-250 words can be really dull, or you can run out of ideas after 50 words.

Learn more about planning a longer description here at baldworm.co.uk; revise descriptive techniques here.

Task: Describe the trench. Write five paragraphs.

Year 5 Fiction - Revising Longer Descriptions

1. Revise how to plan a longer description at baldworm.co.uk

2. Write a long description (at least a side of the paper) for the street scene longer description task.

Make sure you use a range of descriptive techniques - which you can revise at http://www.baldworm.co.uk


Due: Friday

Year 5 Fiction: Description Revision

We're revising descriptive techniques. There are games and activities here on the pupil wiki. You may find my mini-guide helpful:


Task: Please complete the description of the Marimion hotel room.

Due: Thursday

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Year 6 Location Description: Crypt! (Thursday 27th November 2008)

L.O. To vary sentence lengths when writing a longer description.
Homework: Please complete your description of the spooky crypt, including all of Bald Worm's descriptive techniques, but with a focus on varying sentence lengths, i.e. your prose style

Prose Style

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education prose)

P.S. I'll upload the other powerpoints as the week goes by!

Year 5 - Longer Descriptions

L.O. To write a longer description of familiar location

1. Write your description of five rooms of your house. Don't forget you can revise longer descriptions here, and Bald Worm's descriptive techniques here.

2. Annotate your work, showing me where you have used the different descriptive techniques

Feeling clever? Try to include some personification

Write 1 side of A4.

Due: Monday