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Sentence Level Work

o Use connectives other than and, then, but, to link clauses in sentences. Find in own previous
work (collect lots of connectives before they start) and re-write sentence on today's page.

Text Level Work
Narrative / Plays / Scripts

Links to o Add a new character/scene to a Roald Dahl/Lucy Daniels/Jeremy Strong book, using the
curriculum style of the author (i.e. a talking animal in a Roald Dahl book)
o Write a short story (pref. myth/fable) on the board, and ask them to review and edit it
(include misspellings, poor language selection etc. Make sure you clearly show that these are
the parts to rework.)
o Write a well-known story from someone else's point of view.
o Discuss known proverbs in class, a bird in the hand, too many cooks etc., and choose one to
write as a story in fable/myth/legend style, to demonstrate it's meaning.

Non Fiction

Star fillers o Write an incident letter to the police from two different people's points of view, i.e.
victim and eye-witness.
o Write to the local MP regarding e.g. poor lighting outside school, placing poop scoop bins at
edge of park etc.
o Write instructional texts, i.e. How to Use an ipad.

Poetry

o Read a poem with a definite theme (i.e. football) and ask them to change the theme by
substituting words (i.e. to horse riding)
o Read a poem with a definite structure, explore structure and ask them to add a verse.

MATHS

Counting, partitioning and calculating

o Using a calculator. Mental methods of adding 9, 19, 11, 31. Written methods of
adding/subtracting decimals (use calculator to check only, or estimate mentally, use
calculator, then check using written methods.)
o Story board, one-two-step problems involving measures (Noah's Ark? weights of food
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needed, distance travelled in a day etc.)
o Look at 11 x and 12 x table, notice any patterns, past 100 too?
o Written methods (grid/Napier's bones? Russian?) of HTU x U, U.t x U and/or HUTE / U.