Literacy

Summer 2 Term

This term we will be exploring poertry through Roald Dahl's 'Dirty Beasts'. Then we will develop our story writing skills using 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit. Finally, we will be creating an informative leaflet all about life in Year 3 that you can pass down to a Year 2 as a helpful guide!

Week 7 - Picture based stories

This week to finish off the year, we will be writing a fictional story based on a picture. Using all of the storytelling skills we have learnt during the year, we will create a fun story that will go wherever your imagination takes you!

Literacy S2W7L1

Lesson 1 - Planning


How can I write a story based on a picture?

Lesson 2 - Developing Setting, Character and Mood




Week 6 - Information Leaflets

This week we are going to learning about information leaflets, their features and purpose, before creating out own leaflet all about Year 3!

Literacy S2W6L1

Lesson 1 - Features

Leaflet example.pdf


Literacy S2W6L2


Leaflet template.pdf




Week 5 - Historical Narratives

This week we are writing own own innovated historical narrative. Using our previous work and our plan, we will write and develop our story using our evaluation and redrafting skills.

The row below is video recordings of the teacher going through the lessons. The row below that is just the slides. Work from whichever you'd prefer!

Lesson 1

Literacy S2W5L1


Lesson 2

Literacy S2W5L2


Lesson 3

Literacy S2W5L3


Week 4 - Historical Narratives

This week we will continue to learn about the features of historical narratives, before developing our own characters and planning our own version of the story.

The row below is video recordings of the teacher going through the lessons. The row below that is just the slides. Work from whichever you'd prefer!

Lesson 1

Literacy S2W4L1


Lesson 2

Literacy S2W4L2
Literacy L2 task characters.pdf

Link to research website:

Lesson 3

Literacy S2W4L3
Literacy L3 task story mountain.pdf


Week 3 - Historical Narratives

This week we will be exploring the text 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit. We will think about writing effective setting descriptions, inferring about character's thoughts, feelings and actions before looking at how a narrative is structured.

The row below is video recordings of the teacher going through the lessons. The row below that is just the slides. Work from whichever you'd prefer!

Lesson 1

Literacy S2W3L1

Lesson 2

Literacy S2W3L2

Lesson 3

Literacy S2W3L3

Week 2 - Creating Poetry

This week we will be focusing on how to begin writing your own poetry. We will be focusing on wordplay, exploring our ideas, gathering vocabulary and creating a mood in our poem.

Literacy Lesson

Lesson 1 - Creating your own animal

Literacy Week 2, Lesson 2

Lesson 2 - Playing with words to begin writing lines for a poem.

Literacy Week 2, Lesson 2.mp4

Lesson 2 - Teacher talking through lesson.

Literacy Week 2, Lesson 3

Lesson 3 - Writing and performing your poem.

Week 1 - Exploring poems

This week's learning will focus on exploring what makes a great poem! By analysing Roald Dahl's poems in 'Dirty Beasts' the children will identify the features of a poem and even practice performing one!

Roald Dahl Poetry

Lesson 1 - Features of a poem


Week 1

Lesson 2 - Language of a poem


EQ: How can I perform a poem?

Lesson 3 - Performing a poem


Summer 1 Term

Week 5

Lesson 2 - write the next chapter!

Lesson 1 - prediction

Fast forward to 1:03 for the second part of the lesson with sound.

LESSON 3

In this lesson we will be evaluating our work from yesterday (so have it handy) and redrafting it to make it even better!

LESSON 2

In this lesson we will be doing a shared write of our character description. Use this website to help you build you character if you need to!

Week 4 Character description

Lesson 1: planning your character description

Week 3 Character description

Lesson 3: show, don't tell

Lesson 2: powerful verbs

T-L-765-Verb-Word-Mat_ver_2.pdf

Lesson 1: character profiles

This week's spelling list with games to practise them (click on spelling tiles)

Week 2 Persuasive Letter Writing

Thursday - Lesson 3

Video Lesson Slides from lesson

Literacy W2L3

Wednesday - Lesson 2

Video Lesson Slides from lesson

Literacy W2L2

Tuesday - Lesson 1

Video Lesson Slides from lesson

Literacy W2L1

Week 1 Persuasive Letter Writing

THURSDAY

Literacy Lesson 3

WEDNESDAY

Literacy Lesson 2 Week 1

TUESDAY

Literacy Lesson 1

This week we are going to be learning how to write a PERSUASIVE LETTER. Follow the lessons each day to help you build to skills for persuasive letter writing.

In this lesson you will need to use your summary, prediction and inference skills.

You will read to the end of Chapter 2 in the story, do a hot seating task, answer some inference questions and find evidence to support your answers.

There is also a challenge task to write a diary entry if you would like a next step!

Reading

Reading everyday is the best thing you can be doing at home! Please continue to read a book you have at home for 20 minutes a day.

Below are some reading comprehensions you can do to practise answering questions on what you've read.

The sheets are differentiated into 1 star, 2 star and 3 star, so pick whichever one suits you!


POBBLE 365

http://www.pobble365.com/

A wonderful resource to inspire you with reading. Each image comes with questions, challenges and activities.

spellings.pdf
correct spellings.pdf

BOGGLE

http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/brad/boggle/braggle.htm

This is a fun way to help with word recognition and spelling. You can play it with your family and compete against each other.

  • 3 letter words = 1 point

  • 4 letter words = 2 points

  • 5 letter words = 3 points

  • 6 letter words = 4 points

  • Etc

Here are some animations and exercises for children to practise their handwriting.

Leaflet template.pdf