Year Five and Six Comprehension

Year Six
Please complete the Gothic 'Count Dracula' comprehension. Learn more about gothic stories here.

Due: Wednesday

Year Five
Please complete the 'Evacuee' comprehension, which has a focus on identifying descriptive techniques.

Due: Wednesday

Year Five Descriptive Writing: World War II Air-Shelter

Please complete the WWII air-shelter description task. Write 8-10 lines. Try to include all of the descriptive techniques.

Due: Monday.

Don't forget you can revise by listening to this Bald Worm 'just a minute' revision guide:

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Year 5 & 6 Wednesday 11th

In general, however, it is perfectly astonishing

and terrifying how bravely the men fight.

(Andrew Motion)

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**Year 5 Homework**
Please complete the 'Blitzed' description, using Bald Worm's descriptive techniques

Due: Thursday

**Year 6 Homework**
Please complete the Noir planning for suspense task.

Due: Thursday

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 5 Fiction: Description of a Wodehousian Scene

In class we studied P.G. Wodehouse's use of descriptive techniques.

Task: Write a half-page description of the garden at Blanding's Castle (use your imagination to image it!), after first sketching the scene in your books.

Include all of Bald Worm's descriptive techniques.

Please annotate your 'finished' work with a gel pen or coloured pencil, showing me where you have used the different descriptive techniques.

Feeling clever? Try to include the following types of comma:
* Listing comma
* Joining comma (comma before connectives)
* Bracketing comma

Due: Thursday

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

Year 6 - Sherlock Holmes: Setting the Scene

Over the next two weeks we are going to secure our knowledge of how to structure the first 15 lines of a short story.

Learn more about the Red-Headed League here. You can listen to a podcast of 'The Red-Headed League' here (try refreshing the page if the player fails to load).

Homework: Write an eight-ten line description of Sherlock Holmes' rooms in 221b Baker Street, using the floor plan to help you! Include as many of our descriptive techniques as you can; don't forget that the best writers make sure they use a varied prose style as they write.

Year Five Homework: Descriptive Writing

Tomorrow you are going to write a description as part of our assessment week. Please ensure you look over the descriptive techniques at our revision wiki, http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Descriptive+Techniques, and ensure you remember the key descriptive skills described at http://www.baldworm.co.uk/skills/location.html

Personification explained!

Watch this fun video to learn all about personification and hyperbole! Why not sing along!