Writing
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Archived home writing tasks Term 2 2020
Friday 5th June
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Quick Writes - You topic for today's quick write is FISH AND CHIPS
What you will need to know:
You have 15 minutes to write your quick write.
You are required to write complete sentences about the topic of FISH AND CHIPS.
Your quick write can include:
Do you like fish and chips?
If you've eaten fish and chips, what do they taste like?
Are there any sounds that make you think of fish and chips?
What does fish and chips look like?
Where might you eat fish and chips?
What does fish and chips smell like?
What does fish and chips feel like?
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Thursday 4th June
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Quick Writes - You topic for today's quick write is THE BEACH
What you will need to know:
You have 15 minutes to write your quick write.
You are required to write complete sentences about the topic of THE BEACH.
Your quick write can include:
Do you like the beach?
What does being at the beach feel like?
What sounds do you hear at the beach?
What does the beach look like?
What might you find at the beach?
What smells are at the beach?
What does the beach make you think about?
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Tuesday 2nd June
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Quick Writes - You topic for today's quick write is FAIRY FLOSS
What you will need to know:
You have 15 minutes to write your quick write.
You are required to write complete sentences about the topic of FAIRY FLOSS.
Your quick write can include:
Do you like Fairy Floss?
What does Fairy Floss feel like?
What does Fairy Floss looks like?
Where might you find Fairy Floss?
Does Fairy Floss have a different smell?
What does Fairy Floss make you think about?
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Monday 1st June
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Quick Writes - You topic for today's quick write is WINTER
What you will need to know:
You have 15 minutes to write your quick write.
You are required to write complete sentences about the topic of WINTER.
Your quick write can include:
How you feel about Winter?
What do Winter feel like?
What does Winter looks like?
What colours make you think about Winter?
What you might do in Winter?
Does Winter have a different smell?
What does Winter mean to you?
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Tuesday 26th May to Friday 29th May
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Task: This week you have FREE CHOICE WRITING.
You can wow me with an information report, dazzle me with a narrative or make me chuckle with a funny comic strip? It's your choice!
Struggling to think of something to write - remember you can use the Writing Prompt ideas from the Home Learning Pack if you can't think of what to write about.
You could also use the prompts below from week 5 to write a narrative (story), remember you can use some of your descriptive writing from week 5 in the narrative.
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find persuasive and informational writing youtube videos and narrative, cartoon, informational reports and persuasive templates to help with your writing.
ENOKI TALES
PEGGED
THE CLOCK TOWER
Friday 22nd may
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Persuasive Writing - This week you will be writing a persuasive text using one of the image prompts below.
Today you will:
1. Write up your finished persuasive writing either using your best handwriting or in a Google Doc on a computer or iPad, then share with Mrs Rees.
Things to remember:
Remember to include paragraphs with an introduction, 3 reasons and a conclusion (closing paragraph). There are several templates you can use to write your persuasive in the persuasive writing help tab.
Check the persuasive rubric in the writing help page to guide your writing.
Publish and email me your persuasive writing once you have finished your draft copy and have rewritten your persuasive using your best handwriting OR in a Google Doc
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Thursday 21st May
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Persuasive Writing - This week you will be writing a persuasive text using one of the image prompts below.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Writing the rough draft and conclusion' youtube video and then
2. Write your conclusion (closing statement) in your home learning book.
3. Edit your draft persuasive writing today ready to write in neat handwriting or in a Google Doc.
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Tuesday 19th May
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Persuasive Writing - This week you will be writing a persuasive text using one of the image prompts below.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Developing reason's to support your persuasive writing' youtube video and then
2. Draft write your three reasons in your home learning book or create a new Google Doc.
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Monday 18th May
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Persuasive Writing - This week you will be writing a persuasive text using one of the image prompts below.
Today you will:
1. Watch and listen to the book 'Pigeon Needs a Bath' by Mo Willems - this is a great example of a persuasive text to get some ideas from.
2. Watch 'Writing the introduction' youtube video if you need help
3. Pick your topic from the picture prompts below.
4. Draft write your introduction in your home learning book or create a new Google Doc.
Click here for a link to the Writing Help Page - you will find the persuasive writing youtube videos and templates to help with your writing.
Friday 15th May
Warm Up Task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Task: Head to the Grade 3/4 Google Classroom and complete the 'Compound and Complex Sentences' activity.
If you have some spare time left for writing, you may continue with your free choice writing activity which you started on Thursday.
Thursday 14th May
Warm Up Task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Task: Today you have free choice writing.
You can wow me with an information report, dazzle me with a narrative or make me chuckle with a funny comic strip? It's your choice!
Struggling to think of something to write - remember you can use the Writing Prompt ideas from the Home Learning Pack if you can't think of what to write about.
Click here for a link to the writing help page for some templates, some writing story starters, and other things to help you with your writing.
Tuesday 12th May
Warm up task: Complete one handwriting practice page from your home learning pack or sheets delivered by Mr Miller or Mrs Rees.
Main Task: Descriptive Writing
Choose one of the images below and describe what you see, tell me about the picture. Use the prompting questions to help you with your writing.
Write your descriptive writing in your home learning book or create a Google Doc which you can share with me once you have finished.
ENOKI TALES
What’s happening here?
Do the two smaller mushrooms know the larger one?
What is the larger mushroom reading
What kind of thing might you expect to find inside this book?
PEGGED
What’s happening here?
Give the creatures names.
Why does the purple creature have a peg on its nose? Why are its cheeks bulging?
Is the large character an ogre? A troll? Something else?
Why does he have his foot in a bowl?
How is he feeling? Why?
Why are there flies around him?
THE CLOCK TOWER
What can you see in this setting? Where do you think this is?
Who is the person hanging from the clock tower? How did he get there? Who is the person holding him? Are they allies or enemies? How do you know?
What are they doing here? Does anyone know that they’re there?
Why is there a drone in the foreground? Does it belong to those characters or someone else?
Is the time important?
Monday 11th May
Task: Write about 3 places you would like to travel to someday.
Why would you like to travel to these places?
What do you think you will see when you are there?
What do these three places have in common?
Write your descriptive writing in your home learning book or create a Google Doc which you can share with me once you have finished.
Friday 8th May
Task: This week you are going to write an informational report about something you know about.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Informational Writing - Writing a Closing Statement' youtube video then
2. Write your Informational Report closing statement.
There are templates below to help you structure your writing.
See below for Informational Report writing help videos and informational report writing templates.
Thursday 7th May
Task: This week you are going to write an informational report about something you know about.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Informational Writing - Writing a Draft' youtube video then
2. Write your Informational Report facts, remember you need to have three subheadings full of facts.
There are templates below to help you structure your writing.
See below for Informational Report writing help videos and informational report writing templates.
Tuesday 5th May
Task: This week you are going to write an informational report about something you know about.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Informational Writing - Writing an Introduction' youtube video then
2. Write your Informational Report introduction.
There are templates below to help you structure your writing.
See below for Informational Report writing help videos and informational report writing templates.
Monday 4th May
Task: This week you are going to write an informational report about something you know about.
Your report needs to be organised in paragraphs, an introduction, three subheadings with facts and a closing statement. By the end of the week you will have completed all the steps to completely write an informational report.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Informational Writing - Brainstorming and Choosing a Topic' youtube video then
2. Watch 'Informational Writing - Making a Plan' youtube video
3. Choose your informational report topic.
4. Organise your ideas by deciding your subtopics.
There are templates below to help you structure your writing.
See below for Informational Report writing help videos and informational report writing templates.
Monday 27th April to Friday 1st May
Task: This week you have free writing.
You can wow me with an information report, dazzle me with a narrative or make me chuckle with a funny comic strip? It's your choice!
Struggling to think of something to write - remember you can use the Writing Prompt ideas from the Home Learning Pack if you can't think of what to write about.
Below are some templates, some writing story starters, and other things to help you with your writing.
Friday 24th April
Task: This week you will be writing a persuasive text to convince someone why you deserve to win $1000.
Today you will:
1. Write up your finished persuasive writing either using your best handwriting or in a word document on a computer or iPad, then
2. Email your persuasive text to me, Mrs Rees. There's a prize for the two students who can convince me the most that you should win $1000.
(Note: the actual prize isn't $1000 but I promise it will still be good!)
Things to remember:
Remember to include paragraphs with an introduction, 3 reasons why you deserve to win $1000 and a conclusion (closing paragraph). There are several templates you can use to write your persuasive in the persuasive writing help tab.
Check the attached rubric to guide your writing.
Publish and email me your persuasive writing once you have finished your draft copy and have rewritten your persuasive using your best handwriting OR in a word document.
See below for persuasive writing help videos.
Thursday 23rd April
Task: This week you will be writing a persuasive text to convince someone why you deserve to win $1000.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Writing the rough draft and conclusion' youtube video and then
2. Write your conclusion (closing statement) in your home learning book.
3. Edit your draft persuasive writing today ready to write in neat handwriting or in a word document.
See below for persuasive writing help videos.
Tuesday 21st April
Task: This week you will be writing a persuasive text to convince someone why you deserve to win $1000.
Today you will:
1. Watch and listen to the book 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!' - this is a great example of a persuasive text to get some ideas from.
2. Watch 'Writing the introduction' youtube video and then
3. Draft write your introduction in your home learning book.
See below for persuasive writing help videos, templates to use for your writing, word mats to help with word choice and some examples of persuasive texts.
Monday 20th April
Task: This week you will be writing a persuasive text to convince someone why you deserve to win $1000.
There will be two prizes sent out to the most convincing writing from a Grade 3 student and a Grade 4 student.
Today you will:
1. Watch 'Developing reason's to support your persuasive writing' youtube video and then
2. Draft write your three reasons in your home learning book.
There are templates below to help you structure your writing.
See below for persuasive writing help videos.
friday 17th april
Task: Adding adverbs to a sentence.
Rewrite the 5 to 10 sentences you wrote yesterday (Thursday 16th April) but ADD an adverb to add more detail to the sentence.
e.g On the holidays I often rode my lazy pony. (the adverb in this sentence is 'often')
Once you have rewritten the 10 sentences, underline the noun and adjective words in each sentence using bright colours.
Email me a photo of your great work.
thursday 16th april
Task: Adding an adjective to a sentence.
Rewrite the 5 to 10 sentences you wrote yesterday (Wednesday 15th April) but ADD an adjective to describe the noun in the sentence.
e.g On the holidays I rode my lazy pony. (the adjective in this sentence is 'lazy')
Once you have rewritten the 5 to 10 sentences, underline the noun and adjective words in each sentence using bright colours.
Email me a photo of your great work.
Remember:
Adjectives are words that modify nouns. They are often called “describing words” because they give us more details about a noun, such as what it looks like (the white horse), how many there are (the three boys) or which one it is (the last house).
A noun is a word for a person, place, or thing.
Wednesday 15th april
Task: Writing sentences that include verbs (doing/action/feeling words).
Write between 5 and 10 sentences starting with "On the holidays I......"
e.g On the holidays I rode my pony. (the verb in this sentence is 'rode')
Once you have written 5 to 10 sentences, underline the verb words in each sentence using bright colours.
Email me a photo of your great work.