Monday

Learning Objective: To become familiar with books set in other cultures – oral rehearsal of writing

In today’s lesson you will be using your story map to help you act out each section. Have a go at making up your own actions to show what is happening, just like we do in class before we write a story.

Why not ask an adult to take pictures or video your acting so that your teacher can see how you’re been doing? Send you pictures and videos to year6@woodsideacademy.co.uk

Tuesday

Learning Objectives: In narratives describe setting, characters and atmosphere

Today is BIG WRITE day. Use everything you have learnt to write your own version of ‘Escape from Pompeii’.

Task 1

Read through the WAGOLL to help you remember what happens in the story.

Task 2

Have a look back through your work, especially your story map and success criteria.

Here’s a reminder of all the features you should include:

Task 3

Write your story using the WAGOLL and skills you have been learning. Here’s another useful word bank to help you:

Wednesday

Learning Objectives: In narratives describe setting, characters and atmosphere (Editing)

Let’s take a look at what secretarial editing is:

Task 2

Now let’s have a go at using secretarial editing to improve this piece of writing:

Task 3

Using the errors you have found, complete the table below.

Task 4

Thursday

Spelling lesson

Start the lesson by asking an adult to test you or you could test yourself on the spellings that you have been learning (These are the ones you were given last Thursday).

If you can, email your scores to your teacher – year6@woodsideacademy.couk

Click on the link below to mark your spellings.

Choose at least 3 tasks from the spelling menu to help you learn your new words. Don’t forget to have a go at these every day so that you are confident with them by next Thursday.

Friday

Learning Objectives: In narratives describe setting, characters and atmosphere (Editing)

Editing is a really important skill so today we are going to have a go at editing a piece of work using a type of editing called editing for impact.

Task 1

Let’s take a look at what editing for impact is:

Task 2

Now let’s have a go at editing for impact: