Writing

Year 5

Module 1

This week, we have fully immersed into our text 'The Curse of the Maya' and are beginning to get to know the story and the characters. We have recapped on a variety of skills, including fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, synonyms and editing. These skills have helped to build up to writing a setting description about Vee and Ethan seeing the newly discovered Mayan Temple.

in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.
proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning.

We have started working towards our first big write this week which is a Newspaper Report. As a class, we have looked at the features of a Newspaper Report and have explored the difference between fact and opinion, modal verbs and role play.

identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
- using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility.

After completing our unit on Newspaper Reports, we used our chromebooks to type up our final piece to fully embrace the unit. We included modal verbs and reported speech, as well as including some ambitious year 5 and 6 vocabulary.

using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning.

Over the next two weeks, we will be researching features of a persuasive advert to build up our knowledge of the genre. We will be collect ideas to incorporate into our own advert selling a brand new chocolate bar. We will be looking at elements of figuartive language including, alliteration, similes, metaphors, hyperbole, rhetorical questions and emotive language etc.

identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning.
using expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely.

Module 2

Recount of Annies feat:

We have learnt the skills to create a recount from the perspective of Annie about her dare devil feat, conquering the falls. To begin with, we explored a generic recount in order identify the features of this type of genre, giving us a fantastic foundation to create our own based on the amazing stunt that Annie conquered.

This term, our writing text will be based on the book 'The Queen of the Falls' by Chris Van Allsburg. The story is based on a retired 62 year old lady, Annie Edson, who sought fame and fortune after the closure of her beloved Charm School. Deciding to something extraordinary, Annie would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel.

We will be focusing on setting descriptions, diary entries and recounts from different character's perspectives whilst incorporating skills to make our writing cohesive and descriptive.

Setting Description:

We have also explored the setting of the Niagara Falls in order to write our own setting description, focusing on fronted adverbials and descriptive language. Brainstorming ideas for each of the senses gave us the necessary ideas to incorporate into out description of the journey of the Niagara Falls.

Character descriptions:

This week we have been exploring Annie's character by identifying suitable vocabulary to help the readers of our writing undertand the type of person she is. Using this information, we were able to create a description about Annie's life at the beginning of the story. We focused on the use of fronted adverbials to give our sentence structures a variety of openers and the use of parenthesis to add extra detail.

Module 3

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

This module, we have been writing a science fiction novel inspired by our class text 'Cosmic'. To begin with, we explored the characters and wrote a response from one main character to another.

We have been able to manipulate the story to create our own version of what happened to the main character, Liam, during his time away in space. Our SPAG focus for this module was to explore and use colons and semi-colons correctly and accurately within our own writing.

We foucused heavily on editing in order to read and improve our own writing in order to create an accurate final piece.

using semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses

plan their writing by:

identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary

assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing
proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors

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