WB. 15.6.20
Year 3: English Writing Home Learning Pack
Below are a range of English writing and SPaG activities for you to
complete. Please use the vocabulary boxes and have a look at the examples
below to see how your work should look like. ENJOY!
WAGOLL- What A Good One Looks Like
Activity One- Creative writing linked with Geography (Poetry)
Poem – Write a poem which would describe a journey down the Amazon River.
What would you see, hear, smell, taste and touch?
Take a look at the pictures below and use the rainforest word bank to give
you some helpful ideas!
Vocabulary Box
Can you try and
include all of the
senses in your poem?
Here are some fronted adverbials
you can include:
- In the rainforest,
- Along the forest floor,
- High up in the canopy,
- Sometimes,
- Occasionally,
Use the checklist below to
help you keep track of your
writing. Make sure you try
and include all the points
listed below as well as some
fronted adverbials.
WAGOLL- An example for you to read
What features in the example can you see
being used?
The Great Journey
The river makes his way along
the mountain path he chooses
Shamelessly eroding rocks,
as on his way he cruises.
Starting at a steady pace,
he’s happy to go slow
And meanwhile smaller tributaries
come to join the flow.
Activity Two- Creative writing linked with Science (Diary Entry)
Look at the picture below (magnet). Your task is to imagine that you are the
magnet. You will need to write a diary entry continuing with the sentence ‘I
woke up from a nap and to my surprise I found out that…’
Things to think about…
What happened to you?
What did you see, hear, smell, taste, and
touch?
What do you think you would be used for?
Why are you important? What can you do?
Challenge- Ask a family member
to read through your diary entry.
What do they think of it? Are
there any changes that you can
make to make your diary entry
even better?
Use the checklist below to help you.
Vocabulary Box
- Suddenly - Escape - Cobalt - Magnet
- Traumatic - Secret plan - Iron - Shocking
- However - Forces - Metal - Surprisingly
- Mission - Nickel - Mysterious - Finally
WAGOLL- An example for you to read
Dear Diary,
Today, I woke up from a nap and to my
surprise I found out that my day was about
to get even worse! Those tiny screeching
children were going to take turns to throw
me onto the fridge to see who could throw
me the furthest and make me land in the
middle of the fridge! I don’t know how much
longer I can take of this! I wasn’t born to do
this! I was born to help pick up metals like
iron. I need to find a way to escape from
this place and set myself free…
Activity Three- Writing linked with P.E. (Informal Letter)
Activity
Can you write an informal letter to
Coach Michael, telling him about what
kind of exercises you have been doing
at home since lockdown and what you
think about his helpful short P.E.
videos up on the school website.
Use the checklist below to help you
plan and write your letter!
Vocabulary Box
- Dear - Speed
- Exercise - Agility
- Lockdown - Fitness
- Fantastic - Warm-up
WAGOLL- An example for you to read
123 Cherry Gardens
London
England
SW15 9GS
15th June 2020
Dear Coach Michael,
How are you and your family doing? I hope you are all
doing well!
Well it’s been such a long time since I last spoke to you
and I have been so busy since the day that schools closed.
Do you remember the warm up exercise you taught us in
P.E? Well, you will be pleased to know that every day
when I wake up in the mornings I have been practicing
those warm up exercises and have even been getting my
pet cat to join in! She absolutely loves it!
I have also been watching your videos on the school
website and I get my whole family to join in with the
exercises! We all have such a great time taking part and
my favourite video is the speed agility and quickness video
because I am the fastest person at completing exercises in
my house!
I reckon we’re all going to have lots of muscles by the end
of this lockdown from all of that exercise!
I’ll write again to you soon!
With best wishes,
Jane
Can you include a range of adjectives to make
your letter more interesting to read?
Activity Four- Writing linked with R.E. (Newspaper Report)
Activity
You have just visited a Gurdwara. Using
what you have learnt from last week
and this week in the R.E. tasks, can you
write a newspaper report about what
Sikhs do at the Gurdwara and how Sikhs treat the Guru Granth Sahib.
Use the template and the features of a newspaper report sheet below to
help you.
Here are some websites and pictures to help
you.
www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z9gkq6f
Vocabulary Box
- Sikhs - Religion
- Gurdwara - Faith
- Guru Granth Sahib
- Peaceful
Example of a template
Activity Five-Creative Writing
Take a look at the picture of the tiny dragon. Using the picture below as a prompt, can
you write a short story?
Remember- What features should we look to include when we are writing a short
story?
Questions to think about:
Where is it from?
Why is it so small?
Are there more like him?
Where does he live?
How will you look after it?
Will you keep it a secret or tell
someone?
What is it called?
Is it magic? What kind of magic does
it have?
Click on the link below to give you some helpful hints and tips on how to
plan an interesting story!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/zqmkh39
WAGOLL- An example for you to read
The Teeny Tiny Dragon
This dragon was not like any other dragon. No. This dragon was as tiny as a mouse. It was so
tiny that you could keep it in your pocket. But… One thing about this dragon was that when
you rubbed its nose for 3 seconds, the teeny, tony dragon would grow into a huge dragon so
that you could ride it through the swooshing winds…
Activity One - SPAG and Spelling activities
Task a) Expanded Noun Phrases
Noun phrase
A noun phrase is a simple phrase built around a noun.
It contains a determiner and a noun.
For example: a tree, some sweets, the castle
Expanded noun phrase
An expanded noun phrase adds more detail to the noun by adding one or
more adjectives. An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
For example: a huge tree, some colourful sweets, the large, royal castle
Think about why writers might add adjectives to nouns to make expanded noun phrases.
Top tip!
Look for the noun (person, place or thing) and then find the determiner and
the adjective. All these together make an expanded noun phrase.
For example: The house was next to the huge lake.
The noun is 'lake', the determiner is 'the' and 'huge' is the adjective.
Read the sentences below and write out the expanded noun phrases that you can see
being used in each of the sentences.
Task b) Expanded Noun Phrases
Look at the picture of the underwater scene below. Can you write some sentences about
the picture? Improve your sentences by expanding the noun phrase in each sentence.
Try adding an adjective or prepositional phrase
Task c)
Now, write some of your own sentences about the picture which include expanded noun
phrases.
1.
2.
Activity 2- Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning.
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
How can using synonyms and antonyms help to make your writing more exciting and
less repetitive?
Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning:
Words such as happy, cheerful and merry.
Words such as sad, miserable and heartbroken.
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings:
Words such as angry and peaceful.
Words such as funny and serious.
You can use a thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms for words.
Re-write the sentences below either on a whiteboard or on a piece of paper.
Replace the underlines word/s with a synonym (use a thesaurus to help you if
you get stuck). Try to be as imaginative as you can!
Write a sentence of your own with a ‘boring’ word included. Challenge a family
member to think of as many words as they can in 30 seconds to replace your ‘boring’
word.
No words are really boring but sometimes they can get over used or don’t express
what we really mean.
Activity 3- Spelling activity
Optional Activity- Reflection time
Write a few sentences about how you have found your home learning work this
week. You could draw a cloud and fill the cloud with your sentences.
You are all doing an incredible job at completing your home
learning. We are so proud of you all and are constantly thinking
of you as we prepare this home learning work each week.
Remember it is ok if you find something hard or tough… it
means you are learning. Every day is an adventure!
Challenge- Ask a family member to write some
sentences with a deliberate spelling mistake. Can you
read the sentences and correct the spelling mistakes?