Year 5 and 6 Weekend Composition Homework

Year Five
Please create a colourful, neat version of one of your hand plans:
* Include your brainstorm
* Draw round your hand with a pencil
* Write in the plan with a pen

Use pencil crayons to decorate

Don't forget to name your work.

Keep it really neat - we'll be displaying this work in class.

Listen to the Year Five 'Fab Four' eduboo here.

Year Six
Please write an improved second draft of the 'Uncle Montague' story you wrote in Timed Writing. Don't forget to include plenty of description.

Learn more about planning a story here.

Due: Monday

Year Five Fiction: Wodehouse redraft

We're writing stories in the style of P.G. Wodehouse. We're onto our second draft - because writing is rewriting.

Weekend homework: Please complete the second draft of your 'pig' story. Don't forget to (i) set the scene and (ii) include thoughts

Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Due: Monday

Feeling clever? Include the bracketing comma

Year 5 Fiction: Redrafting Rescue!

We've been looking at how to write brilliant action scenes.

1. Task: Please write an action scene between two boys, using our action techniques.

2. Next week is our Reading and Spelling Age tests. Please revise our spelling rules at my area in Spelling City.

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 5 Fiction: Redrafting

Writing is rewriting.

Task: Please write a second draft of your 'Diamond' story, making sure you pay attention to the 'self-assessment rubric'.

P.S. Make sure you avoid the Grumpy Examiner's 'pet hates'

Due: Monday

(Image by Swamibu; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Year 5: Writing is Rewriting (Weekend homework)

Writing is rewriting - authors don't write one draft and publish their work, and neither should you. Work on your sentences until they're perfect!

Task: Write a second, improved version of your 'A Bump in the Night' story. You may choose to type this, print and stick it into your books. Don't forget those brackets and dashes!

Learn more about redrafting here.

Year 5 Book Reviews: Redrafting (Thursday, 4th December 2008)

We're writing book reviews for the Books Go Global wiki so we can share our enthusiasm for reading with children across the world! This is a great example of how Web 2.0 - wikis, podcasts, videos and blogs - allow us to learn in new ways.

Task: Please finish the second draft of your book review. Don't forget to focus on including at least one of the following:
* The listing comma
* The joining comma
* The bracketing comma

Learn more about redrafting at baldworm.co.uk

Year 5: Second Draft of 'Escape' Story (Weekend)

We've been writing and redrafting our P.O.W. World War II 'Escape'. Your homework is in two parts:

PART A
Either:

1. Type up your improved story and email it to me at baldworm@baldworm.co.uk (do not print it!)

or, if you really must...

2. Write it up in pen in your neatest handwriting on A4 paper.

Either way, make sure that you improve it as you write, because writing is rewriting!

Next week we'll record extracts from these stories as podcasts!

PART B
Next week you'll begin writing book reviews that will be posted at Books Go Global! This will be the first Year 5 flatclassroom project, where you'll share your work with children on the other side of the world!

Please select a favourite book, and bring it in to school on Wednesday, ready to write a brilliant book review!

Due: Monday