Literacy Week 2 Spelling Practice Weekly spelling list

Literacy Week 2

Spelling Practice Weekly spelling list. Practise your spelling each day. Ask a parent or sibling to test you on Friday.

Can you include any of the words on your spelling list in your work this week?

Lesson 1: 11. 01. 2021 Lesson 1: This week, we will be reading some of the book – Beetle Boy by M. G Leonard. Part of Chapter 1: The mysterious disappearance of Bartholomew Cuttle. Doctor Bartholomew Cuttle wasn’t the kind of man who mysteriously disappeared. He was the kind of man who read enormous, old books at the dinner table and got fried egg stuck in is beard. He was the kind of man who always lost his keys, and never took an umbrella on rainy days. He was the kind of dad who might be five minutes late picking you up from school but he always came. More than anything, Darkus knew his dad was not the kind of father who would abandon his thirteen-year-old son. The police report stated that the 27 th September had been a unremarkable Tuesday. Dr Bartholomew Cuttle, a 48 – year – old widower, had taken his son, Darkus Cuttle to school, to the school gate and gone on to the National History Museum, where he was the Director of Science. He’d greeted his secretary, Margaret, aged thirty-nine, spent a morning in meetings discussing museum business and eaten lunch at one o’clock with an ex-colleague, Professor Andrew Appleyard. In the afternoon, he’d gone down to the collection of vaults, as he frequently would, via the coffee machine, where he’d fill up his cup. He’d exchanged pleasantries with Eddie, the security guard on duty that day, walked down the corridor to the vaults and locked himself in one of the entomology rooms. Art : This afternoon, draw an alternative front cover. or complete a fine-line drawing of a beetle.

That evening, when his father did not return home, Darkus alerted the neighbours and they called the police. When the police arrived at the museum, the room Dr Cuttle had entered was locked from the inside. Fearing he may have suffered a heart attack, or had an accident, they produced a steel battering ram and smashed the door open. The room was empty. A stonecold cup of coffee with some papers on the table beside a microscope. Several coleoptera specimen drawers were open, but there was no sign of Dr Bartholomew. He had vanished. The vault had no windows other than the one he had entered by. It was a sealed chamber with a controlled atmosphere. The puzzle of the disappearing scientist made the front page of every newspaper. The unsolvable mystery drove journalist crazy, and not one of them could explain how Dr Cuttle had got out of the vault. SCIENTIST DISAPPEARS! Headlines screamed. POLICE ARE FOXED! Newspapers cried.

alerted ascertain astonished cautious CCTV footage contacted disappearance entomology forensic high-profile observed permission potentially proceeding protocol re-secured reunite specimens unfortunate vacant vault Dr Bartolomew Cuttle Darkus National History Museum When? Who? Where? Why? How? Task: Write a police report or a newspaper report following the disappearance of Dr Bartholomew Cuttle. Imagine you were the police officer on duty, or you are the main reporter for the Kensington Times. You must report the disappearance. Use the extract from Chapter 1 to help. Features: Formal language Informative tone Technical vocabulary Key facts: dates, times, witnesses Past tense We were alerted to Dr. Cuttle’s disappearance when his son, Darkus Cuttle, aged thirteen, alarmed that his father had not returned home, contacted a neighbour, who in turn contacted us. We immediately opened a Missing Persons Case and responded to the information that he was last seen at the National History Museum. Following protocol, our officers broke into the vault to ascertain whether Dr. Cuttle was inside and had suffered a heart attack or some other health crisis. We used a battering ram to access the vault and were astonished to find the room vacant. The exception his coffee cup and some coleoptera papers. Dr. Cuttle had been sighted at the coffee machine, at 1: 30 pm, before heading to the Entomology Vaults.

Lesson 2: 12. 01. 2021 https: //www. nhm. ac. uk/discover/uk-beetles-british-most-spectacular-and-beautiful. html Visit the National History Museum website. Produce an information leaflet on beetles. Features: • Title • Sub-headings: description, diet, lifecycle, survival • Formal language • Informative tone • Technical vocabulary • Photographs and captions • Key facts • Sentence open in a variety of ways • Conjunctions used to connect ideas • Pronouns used to avoid repetition • Brackets, dashes and commas used for extra information The next slide contains examples of how you can set your work out to include the features checklist. You can select how to present your work: paper, power point or on a word document. Don’t forget to share your work on Class Dojo portfolio!

Lesson 3: 13. 01. 2021 Part of Chapter 2: King Ethelred Hall Darkus peered through the spiked railing that ran along the front of King Ethelred Hall High School. It was an enormous, gothic building with brooding gargoyles sprouting from its many corners. Darkus took in the narrow windows, soot-stained brickwork and graffiti. The playground looked like the exercise yard of a prison. His old school wasn’t perfect but at least is had a playing field. Darkus hoped this school would be better than the one he was dumped in for three weeks while staying at the foster home. That had been rough. He stared at King Elthelred Hall. If you counted his old one then this was his fifth school in five weeks. Five weeks since Dad last walked him to school. Darkus clenched his teeth. He couldn’t get upset just before going into a new school: people would stare. He thought about what Uncle Max had said ‘grit and determination’ and taking a deep breath, he walked through the school gates. At moring registration, Markus was made to stand at the front of the class to introduce himself to a sea of uninterested faces. A tall girl called Virginia Wallace was appointed to look after him. Her hair was pulled into eight black dandelion clocks, each held tight by brightly coloured elastic bands. She pouted as she looked him up and down, obviously unimpressed with her new duty. . Tasks: Write a setting description for King Ethelred Hall High School. Write a diary entry – Imagine you are Darkus Cuttle, attending his fifth school in five weeks. His dad has still not been found, he’s living with Uncle Max after three weeks in the orphanage. Use emotive language and personal pronouns.

Lesson 4: 15. 01. 2021 What are the features of the poem? What does the phrase ‘linked by invisible nodes’ mean? What does the word galore mean? Can you identify synonyms? What does the word aloft mean? What is your favourite line in the poem? Why do you think the title of the poem is Billion Bug Road? How does the poem make you feel? Why do you think the author wrote the poem? Task: Write a poem similar to The Billion Bug Road by M. G. Leonard. You could add humour into your poem. Don’t forget to share your work on Class Dojo Portfolio?

Lesson 5: 14. 01. 2021 Task: Write an instructional leaflet on how to befriend or look after an insect. You can research any insect; you may want to continue to research beetles. Features: • Imperative verbs: leave, cover, watch • Technical vocabulary • Top tips • Factual information • Formal language • Headings • Sub-headings • Interesting key facts information to make your reader want to befriend an insect.

Extra writing opportunities Write a letter of complaint.

Extra writing opportunities Use the picture prompt to a descriptive narrative.

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