Year 6 Timed Writing: Redrafting

Task 1: Falcons girls know that writing is all about drafting and redrafting our work. Make sure that:
(i) You've included one or two pieces of reported speech;
(ii) You include lots of 'shown feelings'

Task: Please redraft your 'Orphan' story.

Due: Monday.

Task 2: Next week we have Spelling and Reading Age tests; next Friday will be your first mock exam day, with tests in English comprehension, English composition, Mathematics and Reasoning. We'll sit these tests in the hall...and complete all four before lunch. You'll receive your results in the Year Six Autumn term report.

Please prepare for these assessments by (i) revising key skills at Bald Worm and by watching the Bald Worm mini-guides at Falconstube and (ii) revising our spelling rules at my area in Spelling City.

Year Six Fiction: Redrafting the 'Christmas Pudding'

Please redraft the 'Christmas Pudding' story you wrote during our timed writing session.

Missed school today? Download a copy of the task here.

Focus on including lots of shown feelings and meeting the target on your target card.

Due: Monday.

Have a great weekend! Don't forget the Dickens reading list at our pupil wiki.

(Image by Matio; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Year 6 Dickens: Distinctive Voices

In class we've been looking at Dickens' technique of using distinctive voices. Listen to our first-draft audiboo of some of the conversations between a Cab Man and Mr Pickwick:


Task: Please redraft your Cab Man & Pickwick conversation, making sure you use all of our characterisation techniques.

P.S. Don't forget the reading list and useful links at our pupil wiki.

Year 6 - Shown Feelings, Questions about the Character & Dickens

L.O. To include questions about the character alongside dialogue and shown feelings

We've been looking at how questions about the character can pull your reader into the story.

Task: Oliver Twist has gone out pickpocketing - when he is caught in the act! Write a dialogue, including varied shown feelings and a 'bunch' of questions about the characters.

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 6 (Wednesday) Distinctive Dickensian Dialogue

L.O. To write a dialogue using distinctive dialogue

Imagine Mr Pickwick and Mr Jingles are travelling in a cab with a 'wery vude' cabman. Write a dialogue about their discussion - using distinctive speech for Mr Jingles and the cabman. Write 3/4 side of A4.

Learn more about distinctive voices here.

Learn more about our Dickens work and characterisation here.

Due: Thursday.