Coundon Primary School Year 5 English Home Learning

Coundon Primary School Year 5 English – Home Learning W. B: 18. 5. 20

Year 5 English ‘Setting Description’ This week, your English learning is going to be very similar to the Maths ‘live’ lessons you have been using online. Each lesson includes: an initial quiz, a video explaining your learning, an activity and then a quiz at the end of the lesson to check your understanding. The lessons should be easy to follow and the online teachers mark your answers with you. However, it would be great to read some of your final setting descriptions. Once you have completed these, please send them across to your class email or upload them on ‘Teams’ to share your amazing effort!

Helpful Hints If you still have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask any of your teachers using the class email address or ‘Microsoft Teams. ’ �Click on the relevant lessons from the Power. Point slides. �Click ‘Start lesson’. This will then take you to a quiz, complete the quiz. Once you have completed this initial assessment, click ‘Close quiz. ’ �Then click ‘Next Activity’ at the bottom right of the screen. This will take you to your lesson. Play and pause the lesson as you wish. If you need to come out of the lesson video, just click ‘Close video’ and you can ‘Resume video’ at any time. �To complete the activity, ‘Close video’ and go to ‘Next Activity’ to find an activity to complete. These independent activities can be completed in your workbook.

Lesson 1 KS: To retrieve facts Please see ‘Slide 6’ for how to select your spellings for this week In this lesson, you will be learning about fact retrieval. This lesson looks at how retrieve information using a setting description.

Lesson 1 KS: To retrieve facts Please see the next slide for how to select your spellings for this week EXTENSION ACTIVITY Well done for completing Lesson 1 – if want an extra challenge today, watch lesson 2 and complete the suggested activities. Remember, this is optional but will help you develop your fact retrieval skills even further.

Lesson 1 �Clouds – Choose 5 words from the Year 3 and 4 list that you find tricky and 5 from the end of today’s online lesson. �Moons – Use the 8 words from the final part of the online lesson and you will be given time to practise these at the end of each lesson. �Stars – Use the 8 words from the online lesson and then use your reading book, a dictionary or words that interest you or choose another 7 words from the Oxford Owl spelling activity.

Lesson 2 - Spelling practise task For spellings this week, you can complete a spelling activity of your choice from the Oxford Owl website. https: //www. oxfordowl. co. uk/ Username: coundonyear 5 Password: spellings � Use the techniques suggested in ‘Spellings Practise ideas’ to help you remember these spellings. � Use this lesson to practise spelling your selected words. � If you have chosen Moons, then they will test you on Friday as part of the lesson. � If you have chosen Clouds, ask a parent or carer to test you on Friday. � If you have chosen Stars, some of the words will be tested in the lesson and you may need a parent or carer to test you on the others. � Good luck!

Lesson 3 KS: To identify the key features of a setting description Please see the next In this lesson, you will be looking at what features make a good setting description. There will be 4 main features that are discussed � Parenthesis � Prepositional language � Hyphenated words � Personification We have taught some of these skills already in school. We have spoken about parenthesis but not covered this in detail. Don’t worry – Lesson 4 goes into more detail about parenthesis and how we can use it effectively in our writing. slide if you require extra information on each of these ‘features.

Lesson 3 KS: To identify the key features of a setting description Well done for completing Lesson 3 – if you want to learn more about any of the features taught in the lesson today, please explore the links and resources that are suggested Click on the image below. Click on the image to watch a video and learn more about parenthesis. Click on the image to watch a video and complete a quiz about hyphenated words. to watch a video and complete a quiz about prepositions. Click on the image to watch a video and learn more about personification.

Lesson 4 KS: To use parenthesis effectively Once you have completed this online lesson, see the next slide for ‘Extension’ activities. In this lesson, you will be learning how to use parenthesis to add detail to a sentence. You will be shown examples of parenthesis within a setting description and then asked to create your own sentences including parenthesis. This will be a great skill to learn, ready for when you write your own setting description in the next lesson.

Lesson 4 KS: To use parenthesis effectively Well done for completing Lesson 4 – if want an extra challenge today, complete the Year 5 Parenthesis worksheet attached in the resources. Clouds – Developing questions Moons – Expected questions Stars – Greater Depth questions There are 2 sets of each level of questions. Pick whichever you prefer or you could even try all of the questions in that level!

Lesson 5 KS: To write a setting description Class emails 5 JT@coundon. coventry. sch. uk 5 AS@coundon. coventry. sch. uk 5 RB@coundon. coventry. sch. uk In this lesson, you will get the opportunity to write a setting description. You can use all of the skills you have learnt this week and other skills you have been taught this year to create a wonderfully descriptive setting description. Mr Emmerson (the online teacher) takes you step-by-step through each stage of planning and writing an effective setting description. We would love to read some of your setting descriptions. Please send them to your class email or upload them onto ‘Microsoft Teams. ’

Spelling test time! Remember : Clouds - don’t forget to ask somebody if they could test you on your spellings! Moons – you should have done your test as part of the lesson. Stars – You may need to ask somebody to test you on your ‘extra’ words. �Good Luck! �How many did you get correct? �Add any tricky words to your spelling list to practise for next week.