Year Five: Shown Feelings

Task: Write the first draft of your 'The Pig Competition' story. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Don't forget to include lots of shown feelings.

P.S. Why not download my teacher podcast and put it on your iPod? This is a brilliant way to revise key skills

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Year 5 and 6 Composition: Characterisation & 'Flat Classrooms'

Year Six
Please write a second draft of the 'Trout' continutation. Remember to focus on your use of characterisation.

Listen to the 'just a minute' guide to writing dialogue:

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...and the guide to 'showing, not telling'

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Task: Please write your first draft of the 'Woods' writing task; focus on your use of characterisation.

Next week: Noir stories!

Year Five
Please complete your research for your area of our 'flat classroom' project.

Bring in your notes next Wednesday.

Year 5 Weekend Homework

Year Five
Please complete the 'showing, not telling' homework pack. We'll go through your Easter holiday homework next week. Remember to use plenty of interesting adjectives.

Due: Monday
Due: Monday

Year 5 Fiction: Show, Don't Tell

A writer must remember to 'show, don't tell.' You have to use details, movement and expressions to bring your characters to life! Clever-clogs will also include thoughts and 'questions about a character'.

Task: Please complete the 'Montmorency' showing and telling worksheet. Due: Tuesday.

Year 5: Comprehension - Characters Come Alive!

L.O. To revise the skills an author uses to make a character come alive on the page.

This week we're focussing on characterisation, the skill of making the characters in your stories seem like 'real' people.

Don't forget to revise the difference between showing and telling. You can learn more about every style of comprehension question at Bald Worm's Comprehension blog.

Homework: Please complete the 'Bunker Cat' comprehension.

Due: Friday.

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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)