Curriculum Impact Tag: English

Yesterday we created an adjective bank to describe the man and the turnip from our story. We practiced using them in a sentence verbally. Following from this, today we were able to apply this skill into our writing. We focused on describing the man today. 

This week in writing, we have started a new genre. We have explored the features of a formal letter and annotated WAGOLLs on Showbie identifying the different features. 

Today we have included capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops to compose sentences for our class text ‘The Enormous Turnip’. Some children edited incorrect sentences that address common misconceptions and mistakes. We also had groups of children that listened to verbal sentences from a…

We have been learning about instructions and what we need to include in a good set of instructions. Today we have followed a set of instructions to make rocket fruit skewers! Yum!

This week in Writing, Y6 have started their brand new text called ‘Wonder’. Y6 are really enjoying this text so far! This week, we have explored the different features of a diary entry and used SHOWBIE to annotate a WAGOLL.

This week in Y6, we have explored poetry. During our features lesson, we explored different ‘Poetry Tools’ poets use to capture the reader’s imagination. Poetry can be really tricky; however, Y6 have shown their determination and excellence to develop a super understanding so far! Well done…

We have watched The Snowman and spoken about what a snowman should not do! In this imaginative story the snowman comes to life and does lots of things such as ride a motorbike, fly through that winter sky and sit by the fire and almost melt! We enjoyed writing about ‘what a snowman should not do’…

In writing we have created our own story map to support our retell writing. We have broken the story into parts, wrote sentences/ captions for each and then drew images to remind us what happened during each part.

In our Writing lessons this week, we have started a new genre of writing called ‘Discursive Writing’. In one of our lessons we annotated a WAGOLL using our iPads to identify different features of the genre and Y6 produced some brilliantly annotated WAGOLLs! Keep up the good work…

We have used capital letters, finger spaces and full stops to correctly punctuate a sentence based on the speech of our characters. 

We have read and roleplayed the story Peace at Last by Jill Murphy to help us to understand the events and structure.

We are beginning a new story in our literacy lessons, This is the Bear and the Scary night! Today we have created a talk for writing map to help us to remember the story and we then discussed what actions we could include for our retell.