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Sentence Level Work Write a set of instructions, a non-chronological report or similar on the board and ask children to investigate ways in which it could be punctuated. Look at use of colons, semi-colons, brackets and dashes. Build a bank of alternatives to 'said'. Give a sentence to improve i.

Summer Term Invent mnemonics for irregular and difficult spellings.

Sentence Level Work Study proverbs and write their meanings. More able alone, one paragraph sub-titled?

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Give the children 1 story title, and ask them to plan five stories using it, using the same characters. Read the opening to a story, and ask children to prepare as a script using stage directions etc.

Write a flashback story, secret door, key, black hole etc. Ask children to write their own. Deny them the use of certain common words associated with that place, but investigate more figurative language and adjectives.

Explore the five senses in the setting.

Write two character opposite descriptions, emotionally provocative, i. Write a story based in a castle, featuring knights and princesses. Write a character description of an alien, and describe his home planet.

Give bulleted points on board to children regarding their current humanities topic. They then write out in two paragraphs and find information to flesh it out from other sources. Write a newspaper front cover, include headline story and an advertisement.

Headline story to be something the children are familiar with or can identify with, include one interview tiger escapes from zoo and terrorizes school, 3 little pigs survive wolf torture. Poetry Write limericks, explore structure, rhyming patterns and humour first. Teacher to write a poem on board, children refine and polish it, use thesaurus, reorganise structure.

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