Year 5 Prose: The 'Bracketing' Comma #1

Isn't Lionel Messi, Barcelona FC's Argentine football genius, brilliant? He is the best dribbler in the world. A wiggle of his hips - and he's away!

The subordinate clause is like the Messi wiggle - it is the little 'wiggle' that sends the sentence in a different direction, if only for a moment. Subordinate clauses make your writing more interesting!

Task: Write a six-line paragraph about party. Include a 'Messi wiggle' (an embedded clause) in every sentence, e.g.

Aunt Sally, aged fifty, decided to throw a surprise birthday party for my Uncle William. My Uncle, known to his friends as Bill, looked shocked when he walked into the room! The party, which must have cost thousands of pounds, was a complete success! My Mum, aged fifty-two, said it was the best party she had ever attended!

Feeling clever? Include a bracket, too!

P.S. Download another copy of our first 'Messi Wiggle' task from my box at box.net.

P.P.S. Don't forget it is the poetry competition on Monday morning!

Year 5 Prose Style: Revising Conjunctions

In class, we began to look at clauses in complex sentences. To write complex sentences you'll need to use conjunctions.

Tasks:

1. Please revise the role of conjunctions by completing the 'starting point' questions in your book.

2. Please learn the letter string spellings by playing the educational games at Spelling City; the test will be on the Tuesday after half-term. Be careful with those 'ie' spellings!

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Year 6 Prose - Complex Sentences

We've been looking at how important it is to include complex sentences in a story.

Homework: Plan a story for 'The Forest'. Write the first ten lines of your story, setting the scene (e.g. describe the forest), making sure that you include at least three complex sentences, and compound, simple, impact and fragment sentences

Feeling clever? Include a colon.

P.S. Why not try this 'parts of speech' revision game?



P.P.S. The Spelling City word list is here.