Writing

Today we met the Pout Pout Fish. He comes across a number of different friends who comment on his gloomy face. 

Notice the use of the 'ou' sound in this read aloud.

Use this story to retell what happens and who he meets.

In this story, you will notice the use of similies. A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” 

In this story, you will notice a lot of floss words, ee words and double consonants. Check out the word bank below to see these and include these in your rewriting of the story.

For his story, our focus will be on using different types of punctuation, particularly speech marks " " and the colon :. In our word bank doc, you will see how these are used in the story.

In this story, we will look at spoken sentences that use question marks. We use a ? when a question has been asked. We use speech marks " "to show who has asked the question.

This is a short book that sees Pout Pout Fish showing a range of emotions.  

Choose another character from the Pout Pouy Fish stories and write a similar story and using some different emotions. 

In the story title and the main characters name, you will notice a language feature called alliteration. The first letter or sound, is the same. 

In your writing today, see how many times you can use alliteration.