Blog by Tag: Writing

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’…

This week, we have continued to practice a range of skills to prepare us for our independent writes which will be an alternative event based on the text ‘War Horse’. I have been beyond impressed with the writing this week and look forward to reading everybody’s independent…

We have begun our new class text this week - Owl Babies. We have used Talk for Writing and role play to show our understanding of the book, the characters and their feelings. We can recall key elements of the story in order!

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 been really impressed this week with the amount of effort Year 5 have put into their writing! Keep up the hard work!

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