Year 5 Non-fiction - Using Connectives in a Playscript

L.O. To include connectives in a discursive playscript



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Connectives are important tools for structuring your essays. You can use them in all your writing (including History, Geography, Science, Music etc.). You must include the following playscript in your discursive playscript:

firstly,

secondly,

thirdly,

in conclusion

therefore,

as we have seen,

Feeling clever? Try to include the following connectives

however,
critics of this plan have argued...
nevertheless,
although

Homework: Write another playscript discussion, using as many of our connectives as you can! The topic is: ‘Children should be seen and not heard’ Should children always be quiet and well behaved? Should they give their opinions?’ Please highlight the connectives

P.S. Don't forget your spelling cards!

Year 5 - Complete 'Apostrophe Common Errors' Cards

Please complete the 'common error' cards, ready to bring them in on Thursday for the game we're going to play with them! Check you've got 'your' and 'you're' right!

Click here to remind yourself of the original task!

Year Three - Publishing a Final Draft

L.O. To understand that a final draft is the 'finished' story, but that it can always be improved.

We planned and wrote a dinosaur story, and then improved it with a second draft. We are now going to write this story up on A4, ready to publish it in the classroom - but we can still make improvments (such as adding more shown feelings) as we copy out our second draft. Watch this video for further details:



Learn more about shown feelings by clicking here.

Homework: Copy out your dinosaur story, adding more shown feelings as you go. You may illustrate it with pencil crayon drawings, but don't spend too long on this - the most important thing is to make sure your writing is as good as it can possibly be. Due: Friday. We'll celebrate and share our work next Tuesday!

Year Six - Podcast Script

L.O. To revise story structure

We are creating a podcast. This will be hosted on baldworm.blogspot.com, allowing everyone – from Year Three to your Gran in Germany – to hear your work! Brilliant!

We will record the podcast on Thursday and Friday. Remember to think about where you will include music and sound fx; use humour to grab your listener’s attention!

Here is an example of a podcast script:

SALLY: Welcome to the Year Six Story Structure Podcast, in association with baldworm.co.uk

HIBA: We are going to teach you all about how to structure a story – and they’ll be lots of jokes and fun along the way!

SALLY: We’ll be giving you lots of examples, so you know exactly how to use the writer’s techniques we’ll be talking about!

HIBA: Here is an example of a brilliant opening line: “Don’t you dare move a muscle, or I’ll blow yer brains out!”

(Gun shot sound FX)

SALLY: Brilliant! But which writer’s techniques did she use?

Homework: Write some adverts for the podcast, using rhetorical techniques: rhetorical questions, positive language, ‘experts say’, and making the product - shampoo? chocolate? a car? - sound cool. Write it as a playscript, and don’t forget to think about sound fx. (You may find it useful to listen to Capital or Virgin before you start, so you can get an idea about how adverts use humour to grab the listener’s attention. Your advert should last thirty seconds or so. Write it as a script

We’ll only have time to use three of the adverts, so make yours as brilliant as you can!

Year 6 - Comprehension

Complete 11+ 'room' comp. Use the stopclock below to time yourself - 40 min. Your challenge? Make sure you finish all of the questions in 40 min!

Year 5 Comprehension - Italics

L.O. To understand that writer's use italics for (i) emphasis and (ii) thoughts

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Complete the Holmes comprehension. Don't forget to click here to revise the questions about an author's use of italics.

You should also click here to revise P-E-Eing all over the page.

Year 4 Creative Writing - The First 15 lines of a Short Story

L.O. To understand that the first 1/2 page of a short story needs an exciting opening, a description of the location, dialogue and a description of one of the characters.

We have been learning about how to organise - structure - our ideas. A short story isn't a book - you've only got one-and-a-half sides of A4, so we are learning the most effective way to organise our ideas (we'll mess with this structure once we know it like the back of our hands). You can learn lots more about story structure by clicking here.

Try not to wait for me to tell you what to learn next - use baldworm.co.uk to learn all about 'skills' and 'story structure'

Homework: Write the first 15 lines of an 'Escape' story. Make sure you follow our story structure.

Feeling clever? Remember to show, not tell! (Learn all about this by clicking here.)