Take a ‘selfie’

When students are proud of their work they request that a ‘selfie’ is taken so that it can get published online! Work is not over-corrected as normally we would be focusing on a specific target and that would be the area that they may get prompts about. They are encouraged to take pride in their work so that their work can be published. This helps to motivate students to improve on the presentation of their work.

 
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Character description

L was working on developing character descriptions. He focused on using descriptive language as well as features such as similes. L was also working on using his senses (sight, smell, sound etc) to describe the character.

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Spelling ‘ea’ and ‘ow’ words

C was revising his spellings of ‘ea’ and ‘ow’ words. He practised the spellings, thinking about if the word had an ‘ea’ sound or an ‘ow’ sound. He was encouraged to think about all the sounds in the word and say each sound as he wrote the word.

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Writing a newspaper article

After discussion about the features of newspaper articles as well as reading examples, M watched Roald Dahl’s ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ video clip on You Tube. He then planned and wrote his own newspaper article about the death of the detective.