WB. 15.6.20

Year 3: English Writing Home Learning Pack

Below are a range of English writing and SPaG activities for you to

complete. Please use the vocabulary boxes and have a look at the examples

below to see how your work should look like. ENJOY!

WAGOLL- What A Good One Looks Like

Activity One- Creative writing linked with Geography (Poetry)

Poem – Write a poem which would describe a journey down the Amazon River.

What would you see, hear, smell, taste and touch?

Take a look at the pictures below and use the rainforest word bank to give

you some helpful ideas!

Vocabulary Box

Can you try and

include all of the

senses in your poem?

Here are some fronted adverbials

you can include:

- In the rainforest,

- Along the forest floor,

- High up in the canopy,

- Sometimes,

- Occasionally,

Use the checklist below to

help you keep track of your

writing. Make sure you try

and include all the points

listed below as well as some

fronted adverbials.

WAGOLL- An example for you to read

What features in the example can you see

being used?

The Great Journey

The river makes his way along

the mountain path he chooses

Shamelessly eroding rocks,

as on his way he cruises.

Starting at a steady pace,

he’s happy to go slow

And meanwhile smaller tributaries

come to join the flow.

Activity Two- Creative writing linked with Science (Diary Entry)

Look at the picture below (magnet). Your task is to imagine that you are the

magnet. You will need to write a diary entry continuing with the sentence ‘I

woke up from a nap and to my surprise I found out that…’

Things to think about…

What happened to you?

What did you see, hear, smell, taste, and

touch?

What do you think you would be used for?

Why are you important? What can you do?

Challenge- Ask a family member

to read through your diary entry.

What do they think of it? Are

there any changes that you can

make to make your diary entry

even better?

Use the checklist below to help you.

Vocabulary Box

- Suddenly - Escape - Cobalt - Magnet

- Traumatic - Secret plan - Iron - Shocking

- However - Forces - Metal - Surprisingly

- Mission - Nickel - Mysterious - Finally

WAGOLL- An example for you to read

Dear Diary,

Today, I woke up from a nap and to my

surprise I found out that my day was about

to get even worse! Those tiny screeching

children were going to take turns to throw

me onto the fridge to see who could throw

me the furthest and make me land in the

middle of the fridge! I don’t know how much

longer I can take of this! I wasn’t born to do

this! I was born to help pick up metals like

iron. I need to find a way to escape from

this place and set myself free…

Activity Three- Writing linked with P.E. (Informal Letter)

Activity

Can you write an informal letter to

Coach Michael, telling him about what

kind of exercises you have been doing

at home since lockdown and what you

think about his helpful short P.E.

videos up on the school website.

Use the checklist below to help you

plan and write your letter!

Vocabulary Box

- Dear - Speed

- Exercise - Agility

- Lockdown - Fitness

- Fantastic - Warm-up

WAGOLL- An example for you to read

123 Cherry Gardens

London

England

SW15 9GS

15th June 2020

Dear Coach Michael,

How are you and your family doing? I hope you are all

doing well!

Well it’s been such a long time since I last spoke to you

and I have been so busy since the day that schools closed.

Do you remember the warm up exercise you taught us in

P.E? Well, you will be pleased to know that every day

when I wake up in the mornings I have been practicing

those warm up exercises and have even been getting my

pet cat to join in! She absolutely loves it!

I have also been watching your videos on the school

website and I get my whole family to join in with the

exercises! We all have such a great time taking part and

my favourite video is the speed agility and quickness video

because I am the fastest person at completing exercises in

my house!

I reckon we’re all going to have lots of muscles by the end

of this lockdown from all of that exercise!

I’ll write again to you soon!

With best wishes,

Jane

Can you include a range of adjectives to make

your letter more interesting to read?

Activity Four- Writing linked with R.E. (Newspaper Report)

Activity

You have just visited a Gurdwara. Using

what you have learnt from last week

and this week in the R.E. tasks, can you

write a newspaper report about what

Sikhs do at the Gurdwara and how Sikhs treat the Guru Granth Sahib.

Use the template and the features of a newspaper report sheet below to

help you.

Here are some websites and pictures to help

you.

www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z9gkq6f

Vocabulary Box

- Sikhs - Religion

- Gurdwara - Faith

- Guru Granth Sahib

- Peaceful

Example of a template

Activity Five-Creative Writing

Take a look at the picture of the tiny dragon. Using the picture below as a prompt, can

you write a short story?

Remember- What features should we look to include when we are writing a short

story?

Questions to think about:

Where is it from?

Why is it so small?

Are there more like him?

Where does he live?

How will you look after it?

Will you keep it a secret or tell

someone?

What is it called?

Is it magic? What kind of magic does

it have?

Click on the link below to give you some helpful hints and tips on how to

plan an interesting story!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/zqmkh39

WAGOLL- An example for you to read

The Teeny Tiny Dragon

This dragon was not like any other dragon. No. This dragon was as tiny as a mouse. It was so

tiny that you could keep it in your pocket. But… One thing about this dragon was that when

you rubbed its nose for 3 seconds, the teeny, tony dragon would grow into a huge dragon so

that you could ride it through the swooshing winds…

Activity One - SPAG and Spelling activities

Task a) Expanded Noun Phrases

Noun phrase

A noun phrase is a simple phrase built around a noun.

It contains a determiner and a noun.

For example: a tree, some sweets, the castle

Expanded noun phrase

An expanded noun phrase adds more detail to the noun by adding one or

more adjectives. An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

For example: a huge tree, some colourful sweets, the large, royal castle

Think about why writers might add adjectives to nouns to make expanded noun phrases.

Top tip!

Look for the noun (person, place or thing) and then find the determiner and

the adjective. All these together make an expanded noun phrase.

For example: The house was next to the huge lake.

The noun is 'lake', the determiner is 'the' and 'huge' is the adjective.

Read the sentences below and write out the expanded noun phrases that you can see

being used in each of the sentences.

Task b) Expanded Noun Phrases

Look at the picture of the underwater scene below. Can you write some sentences about

the picture? Improve your sentences by expanding the noun phrase in each sentence.

Try adding an adjective or prepositional phrase

Task c)

Now, write some of your own sentences about the picture which include expanded noun

phrases.

1.

2.

Activity 2- Synonyms and Antonyms

Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning.

Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.

How can using synonyms and antonyms help to make your writing more exciting and

less repetitive?

Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning:

Words such as happy, cheerful and merry.

Words such as sad, miserable and heartbroken.

Antonyms are words with opposite meanings:

Words such as angry and peaceful.

Words such as funny and serious.

You can use a thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms for words.

Re-write the sentences below either on a whiteboard or on a piece of paper.

Replace the underlines word/s with a synonym (use a thesaurus to help you if

you get stuck). Try to be as imaginative as you can!

Write a sentence of your own with a ‘boring’ word included. Challenge a family

member to think of as many words as they can in 30 seconds to replace your ‘boring’

word.

No words are really boring but sometimes they can get over used or don’t express

what we really mean.

Activity 3- Spelling activity

Optional Activity- Reflection time

Write a few sentences about how you have found your home learning work this

week. You could draw a cloud and fill the cloud with your sentences.

You are all doing an incredible job at completing your home

learning. We are so proud of you all and are constantly thinking

of you as we prepare this home learning work each week.

Remember it is ok if you find something hard or tough… it

means you are learning. Every day is an adventure!

Challenge- Ask a family member to write some

sentences with a deliberate spelling mistake. Can you

read the sentences and correct the spelling mistakes?