Year 3 English WB 02/06/2020

English Home learning Grid (Y3 ) Setting description Reading comprehension attached at the bottom

Please write the date and WALT in your book and complete each day.Some of these activities may need adult support however other tasks can be completed independently. Please make a comment on how much your child was supported in each activity.

Monday 2 nd June INSET DAYOptional taskUsing your new knowledge of Haiku’s write one about your half term.

Tuesday 3 rd June WALT find the key features of a setting descriptionIndependent taskActivity: Using today’s resources read through the three setting descriptions. Which is your favourite and why? Which is the worst one and why? Now look at the success criteria that Miss Newcombe created, is everything there in your favourite description? Challenge: Can you label the key sentence styles that were used to aid you later on?

Wednesday 4 th June WALT write a setting with prompts.Independent taskActivity: Today you will be writing a paragraph about 2 of the 3 settings using the prompts given to guide you. Don’t forget to use yesterday’s success criteria to help you Challenge: Can you write a paragraph for your own setting and have a friend/family member guess what it is about?

Thursday 5 th June WALT brainstorm key words/sentences about our chosen setting.Independent taskActivity: From the list given below choose your setting and then brainstorm all the words and sentences that come to mind. These will help you in creating your own setting description tomorrow.Challenge: look on the day resources.

Friday 6 th June WALT write our own setting description.Independent taskActivity: Use the resources below to help you write your own setting description today – don’t say what it is and can you send it to your teacher for them to guess?Challenge: can you include a simile, personification AND 1 of our sentence styles?

Spellings Year 3/4Learn these 10 spellings from your spelling list.

actual, circle, famous, knowledge, perhaps, separate, special. popular, learn, favourite

Challenge: can you write them into sentences on Friday with your spelling test?SUPER challenge: can you include any in your setting description?

GlossarySuccess criteria – what you need to include to be successfulSentence styles – sentence of three, last word/ first word, inside/outside sentence, emotion starter (ALL of these styles are demonstrated in the 3 extracts for Tuesday’s lesson.

Tuesday 3 rd June

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WALT find the key features of a setting descriptionExcerpt 1:

The trees swayed fiercely in the wind, crows swirled around the castles peaks as it stood proudly on the hill. How had he got there? He didn’t know. Why was he there? He didn’t know. Suddenly, a terrifying dragon swooped down breathing fire and he realised that the trees surrounding him were all charred and blackened. The ground was dusty and nothing living could survive in this barren wasteland. The knight cowered. Cowered as he assessed the rickety old, stone bridge that separated him from the castle and his quest.

Excerpt 2:

Shining the sun beat down on the luscious green trees that held fresh fruit aplenty. In the distance the sea shimmered like diamonds and the wind tickled the top leaves. The only sounds were the trickling of the stream that caressed her toes and the squawking of colourful parrots that freely flew around the island. It was paradise!

Excerpt 3:It was a sunny day. The wind blew, the clouds skittered across the sky and the birds sang. Lily sang as she skipped down the road and swung her shopping basket, she could smell the cookies from her home and couldn’t wait to eat them for breakfast. On the outside she showed the world she was happy, yet on the inside she was nervous. Nervous in case they had already run out!

Wednesday 4 th June WALT brainstorm ideas for our own setting description.

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Thursday 5 th June WALT brainstorm key words/sentences about our chosen setting.

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Your choices are:Haunted houseA fairy tale castle at nightA deep, dark caveA dragon’s lairAn oasis in the middle of the desertThe rainforest Outer spaceDoctor Robotnik’s secret hideout (now known as Eggman)A tropical beach

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What setting has Miss Newcombe described? A Forest!Simile AND personification – shadow dancing across my skin as light as a fairies wings.Friday 6 th June WALT write our own setting description.

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Challenge:Can you include any of these to help with your writing tomorrow?A simile, a metaphor, inside/outside sentence, personification, alliteration.

Year 3 English WB 02/06/2020

I lifted my face, letting the light and shadow dance across my skin. Busily, bees hummed in and out of the pennyroyal. Inhaling its minty smell and continuing on, I delighted in the sound of my feet sliding through the leaves. Suddenly, the trees lashed and crashed against each other like drum sticks in the hands of a giant. Lightning flew out of the sky lighting up the night sky like a thousand fireflies. The moon hid behind the clouds, a spider web tickled across my face, rain drops fell with a heavy thud. I began to search nervously for my cabin as all around me branches creaked, wind whistled and… wolves howled! Howled as if searching for prey.

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Let’s check what Miss Newcombe has ticked off…

Well done Miss Newcombe AND you included some of our interesting sentence styles. Did you spot the similes, alliteration, personification, sentences of three, last word, first word and interesting sentence openers? Now it is time to write your own! Good Luck

Year 3 English WB 02/06/2020

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