Monday 18th May - Weekly English

Story Writing

We hope you had a lovely weekend staying in with your grown-ups.  

We are looking at writing a short story this week based on the fantastic image below.

Greedy

Story Starter

He just couldn’t help himself because he had always been a greedy, fat rat.

Up until this moment, he had never been spotted by a human. Now, that was about to change……

Lesson 1
LO: To gather information from an image

There is lots of information you can ‘read’ from an image. They can make you think and open up your imagination. Focussing on the image answer the questions below and write your answers in your home learning book.

Task – Question Time!

What do you think the rat is thinking?

What has the rat been collecting?

If you saw the rat, what would you do?

What is the best way for the rat to carry the fruit back to his home?

If the rat had a son and a daughter, do you think he should let them go with him when he is gathering food?

Lesson 2
LO: To use adjectives to describe.

An adjective, as you know, is a describing word. When we want to use more than one adjective to describe something you must remember to use a comma.

For example - The bright, red, shiny strawberry looked very juicy.

Task

In your home learning book write five descriptive sentences about the image of the rat.

Lesson 3
LO: To edit and improve sentences.

These sentences are ‘sick’. Using your home learning book re-write them to improve them. 

Task

the fat grey rat held on to the fruit.

Inside the small silver bucket were some juicy red berries.

He wos always hungry and lovd fruit.

he held on to the berry tightly because he did not want drop it.

back home the babys were waiting for their tee.

Lesson 4
LO: To plan a story

Tomorrow you are going to write a story.

Remember how important it is to plan our sentences before we start writing them. 

Task

Can you create a story map like the one below, to plan what happens in to the rat? Remember you can add key words underneath the images to help you.

Lesson 5

L.O To write your own imaginary story

What would you need in your writers toolkit?

Writing toolkit

Capital letter and full stops

Full sentences

Conjunctions

Adjectives

Commas

Pre-cursive handwriting

Tall letter – tall

Small letters - small 

Task - Author for a day!

Using your imagination and your story map from yesterday, now write your own story about the rat and the red berries.

Greedy.

We look forward to reading your stories when you are back in school, or if you don't want to wait send us a photograph of your stories.