WALT: Understand the difference between simple, compound and complex sentences.
TASK: Use different sentence types in our writing to make it interesting.
Instructions:
Complete Tasks 1 and 2.
Post your writing to your blog.
Title: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
Labels: writing, 2018.
Please ensure to put the URL from your blog post onto the BLOG LOG.
TASK 1
Week 6/7 - a guide to being kind - inspired by oat the goat
WALT: Re-write a story in our own words, keeping the message of the original story, but changing the setting and characters.
TASK: Re-write part of the story of Oat the Goat, using your own characters and setting. Provide 3 alternative endings, e.g. what would happen for 3 different ways the main character reacts to being unkind.
TASK
Writing Focus:
Re-write a story in our own words, keeping the meaning of the original story the same. Come up with different a different setting and characters.
Post your writing to your blog.
Title: A Guide to Being Kind - Inspired by Oat the Goat.
Labels: writing, 2018.
Please ensure to put the URL from your blog post onto the BLOG LOG.
Week 4 - Writing Descriptively
Walt: to write using descriptive language.
Instructions
Your instructions this week is to create a flying invention!
Create an image of your flying invention then write a story about it!
WALT: Write in the style of recount, writing about an event that happened in the past, and re-telling the sequence of events in the correct order. Our recount will use descriptive words that entertain and draw interest from our blog audience.
TASK: Write a recount about our experience as a literacy class of making pikelets.
Write in the style of a recount which includes; an introduction which hooks our blog audience in, and tells us about the 5 W's - who, what, when, where and why; the sequence of events, told in order using past tense; and a conclusion which sums up the experience, how you felt about it and why.
Post your writing to your blog.
Title: Pikelet Making Recount.
Labels: writing, 2018.
Please ensure to put the URL from your blog post onto the BLOG LOG.
WALT: Write in the style of narrative, using descriptive language.
TASK: write a narrative using something you or your whānau did during the school holidays for inspiration.
What is Narrative Writing.mp4
Writing Focus:
Write a narrative, using something you did in your holidays for inspiration.
Use descriptive language that makes your story interesting.
Remember a narrative has a beginning, a middle where there is a problem or complication that the characters encounter, and an end where the problem or complication is solved and 'loose' ends are tied up.
Use correct punctuation, when a character is talking use speech marks.
Once you've posted your writing to your blog, please ensure to put the URL onto the BLOG LOG.