Year Five Prose and '-ssion' Spelling Homework

1. Please learn the '-ssion' spellings for a test next Tuesday.

2. Please learn the words to the semi-colon song for next Tuesday. We'll be recording our own version of the semi-colon song and uploading it for the world to enjoy at FalconsTube, our school YouTube channel.

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.

Year Six - Semi-colon

L.O. To revise the use of the semi-colon

A semicolon is an economical way to join two sentences, and therefore two ideas, so that your reader sees the relationship.

The semicolon is another important tool you can use when you write. There are two ways to use this punctuation mark: as a connector between two sentences and as a 'supercomma'.

Comparisons are often used to emphasize a basic idea; however, they are more often used to explain something complex or unfamiliar by showing how something we don't understand relates to something we do.

Learn why it is important to use an interesting, varied prose style by clicking here.

WARNING: never glue two sentences together with only a comma. Grammarians call this sentence error a comma splice.


Get a Voki now!