Character Description Audioboo

Year 5: Writing a Longer Description

We have been learning about how to plan a longer description. If you're not careful, descriptions of 200-250 words can be really dull, or you can run out of ideas after 50 words.

Learn more about planning a longer description here at baldworm.co.uk; revise descriptive techniques here.

Task: Describe the trench. Write five paragraphs.

Alpha Plus Group's Falcons School for Girls loves Sharing Our Writing

Listen to I & C's description using personification. This is an example of using a mini-podcast - an eduboo using Audioboo - to give everybody in the world the chance to hear our brilliant writing:

11+ English Year 6 Fiction: Character Description Audioboo

We love describing characters, but character descriptions can sometimes break the 'flow' of a story. We have been learning about incorporating character descriptions into the 'flow' of our narratives.

Listen to my 'eduboo' audioboo before you start writing! You can also listen to S's example character description audioboo:


Task: Write a second dialogue and description between two of the characters at the party. Make sure you write the description from the point-of-view of one of the other characters.

Due: Thursday

Year 5 Prose Style: Dialogue

Prose StylePlease write a conversation (not a story) between two girls on a Residential Camp. One is telling a scary story; the other wants her to be quiet so she can go to sleep.

You could begin like this:

"Please be quiet," whimpered Sally.

Note: Please don't use the names of girls in the class!

Feeling clever
Break up the speech like this:

"Oh!" said Sally. "I didn't think of that!"

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Due: Wednesday

Spellings
Please learn the 'words ending with u' spellings. Don't forget to play some Spelling City words to help you learn

Test: Next Tuesday

See You on the Seventh!

Year 5 & 6 Homework: Twitter Writing Competition

Falcons Girls know that 'every word counts' when writing a story. We're going to test this out with our first annual Bald Worm Twitter Writing Competition - and best of all, your parents can take part, too!

Visit Bald Worm's Twitter page to see where we'll be publishing the winning entries.

Homework: Draft your Bald Worm Twitter Writing Competition entry. You may find it easiest to draft on Word, and keep track of characters at the bottom of the screen. Remember, every word counts.

Due: Friday.

P.S. Year 5 studied the writing of Lemony Snicket over the weekend. Listen to their analysis of Lemony Snicket's prose style on a special eduboo podcast:

Year Six Mini Sagas, Year Six Weekend Homework & Year Five Writing in the Style of Lemony Snicket

Hey, everybody! Falcons Girls love to share their writing with the world! Listen to the Year Six mini-sagas eduboos on our pupil wiki!

Weekend Homework: Be prepared to (a) give your Shakepeare PowerPoint presentation next week; (B) hand in your second project - either the Shakepeare Research Project or your Passport to the World project - next Thursday.

Year Five




There are some things that should never be attempted...like writing in the style of Lemony Snicket. I love Lemony Snicket: he is such a witty, clever writer.

Homework: Please complete the 'Writing Style' sheet for Lemony Snicket.

P.S. Do you like the music from the Lemony Snicket storytapes? The music is by The Gothic Archies. Here is another Snicket-inspired song:

Year 5 Fiction: Continue a Passage in the Style of the Original

We've been studying how to continue a passage. The really cool trick is to write in the style of the original!

Listen to our eduboo about Joanne Owen's writing style in Puppet Master:

Task: Please analyse the style of Derek Landy - author of Skulduggery Pleasant, using our 'style analysis' sheet.

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Year 6 Fiction: Redrafting Your Mini-Saga

A mini saga is a piece of writing which has exactly fifty words - not 49, not 51 - exactly fifty words! (Not including the title). A mini saga has to tell a complete story with a beginning, middle and end. The best mini sagas end with a clever twist.

Mini sagas force you to be creative - the constraints imposed by having to write exactly fifty words makes you think about every single word that you write. There are some good tips here.

Task: Please write a second draft of your favourite mini saga. We'll record them through audioboo as special mini saga eduboos tomorrow!

P.S. Bonus video:

Year 5 Comprehension: Deduction

Please complete my Comprehension Puzzle for Tuesday.

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Man on the Moon Poem & Year Six Project Work

Nearly forty years ago, we first landed on the Moon.

"I knew that I would live to see the first man on the Moon. I did not know I would live to see the last one." --Jerry Pournelle.

Listen to the Year Six 'hope' poetryboo:

P.S. Listen to my eduboo:


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