EnglishMixed Activity: The Sunflower

Finish the story:Lucy had only planted the seed minutes earlier. Now, it was growing in front of her eyes! The earth began to tremble as the sunflower grew thicker and thicker, taller and taller. With no sign of stopping, the plant seemed to be reaching up towards the sun. She held on tightly, not daring to wonder where she might be swept off to…

Question time!Where will the magic sunflower take Lucy?If you were Lucy, would you hold on to the sunflower or let go?How did Lucy acquire the seed?

Sentence challenge!A parenthesis is a word or a phrase put into a sentence to give it more information. Parenthesis is demarcated with brackets, commas and dashes. You may also use a relative pronoun to help with this (embedded relative clause). Parentheses are used to:

Explain what a difficult word means. Show someone’s thoughts Add extra information to help the reader Emphasise a point Can you use brackets to add extra information?

E.g. The sunflower (which was growing at an incredible speed) cause the earth around it to tremble.

Perfect picture!Imagine what the sunflower will look like the next day. Draw or describe what you have imagined.

ReadingAberrations – The Beast Awakens by Joseph Delaney.

Retrieval questions:1. Where is Crafty?2. How long had his mother been

dead?3. Did Crafty want to leave the

cellar?Inference questions:

1. Has Crafty been in the cellar a long time? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

2. Find three pieces of evidence which suggests this is a fantasy story? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

3. What time of day is it? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

4. Find evidence to suggest the cupboard had previously been magical…

Choice questions:1. Which word in the text means

‘a place of safety’?2. The author uses personification

in paragraph 2- can you identify it? What effect does it have?