The Greville Primary School
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English
Starter: Practise your weekly spellings.
Over the next 3 days, you will work towards creating a piece of work. By Friday, you will have written a description on one of the following pictures:
Here is timetable for the week:
Wednesday: Plan your writing by brainstorming vocabulary, phrases, similes, metaphors, personification
Today, we expect at least 15-20 phrases / words/ sentences to go with your picture.
Things to think about:
What can you see? Cottage – trees – pathway - smoke- castle- bats - clouds - moon
Colours – light – dark -
What can you hear? Trees – sound of the forest – footsteps?- wind- rain
What can you smell? Smoke – grass – forest
How does this make you feel? Happy – sad – courageous – anxious – determined
curious – puzzled – apprehension -inquisitive
If you get stuck, try writing a basic word / phrase / sentence and then seen if you can up-level it. For example:
| Basic | Up-levelled |
| Smoke came out the chimney. | Delicate smoke danced out of the chimney. |
| There was a large tree. | Next to the cottage, stood an ancient tree which towered over the house. |
| There were faeries in the grass. | Amongst the dancing flowers, were tiny faeries, who spent their time collecting nectar. |
Send us your mind maps so that we can post them on Thursday's English page. That way, you can magpie each other's ideas.
Thursday: Write using first class sentences and referring to the success criteria
Friday: Edit: Punctuation, spellings, improve word quality.
Re-write your work up neatly. Present by drawing a picture (this could be over the top of the writing) and you could creating a border.