Subject English Year Group 3 Week Commencing 27420

Subject: English Year Group: 3 Week Commencing: 27/4/20 For subject information, games and activities to support this planning, please also look on the ‘Help your child with English’ document saved on the class page.

Date: 27/4/20 Lesson Objective: ‘ou’. How to spell the ‘u’ sound using Activity: Spellings Test spelling words for Wk 2 – ‘u sound, spelt with an o’ Learn spelling words for Wk 3 – short u sound, spelt with ‘ou’. View the spelling rule Power. Point on the website page. Have fun with the wordsearch. Choose interesting activities from the ‘challenge’ to help learn your spellings: Make up a wordsearch; write the words in rainbow; write your spellings into a layer of sand or flour; use a ball or balloon to throw and say each letter in turn, write spellings in a pyramid. You could also take the opportunity to practise your best handwriting by creating sentences that include your spellings.

Spelling support. Can you find this week’s spellings in the wordsearch? Try making your own wordsearch up using the spellings. See if someone in your house can complete it.

Date: 28/4/20 Lesson Objective: To understand how to use vocabulary to create atmosphere. Activity: Look carefully at the picture entitled ‘Afterwards’ which is on the next page. Writing task: Over the next four days, generate a description that creates a sense of place and shows how it has changed over time, hinting at what might have happened there. What imaginative vocabulary choices can you make to show what life looked like before and after an event? As you are writing, remember to read your sentences through and improve your vocabulary, punctuation and spellings. Checklist: Capital letters, punctuation, neat and joined handwriting and presentation. Remember to use an online dictionary and thesaurus to help you. Let’s get started on your first session…

This picture is called, ‘Afterwards’.

Date: 28/4/20 Lesson Objective: To understand how to use vocabulary to create atmosphere. The picture is called, ‘Afterwards. ’ Look very carefully at the picture and then talk about it. What can you see? How does the picture make you feel? Jot down three words to describe the atmosphere and mood of the place pictured. Write some questions down that you have about the setting, thinking about what might have happened there. You can try to answer these yourself as you grow your ideas. Glossary: Jot – Quickly write down. Atmosphere - mood. (The atmosphere in the castle was spooky. )

Think about what makes an effective description of a setting. Look for interesting adjectives and other vocabulary. Read this description of Coketown, an industrial city, written by Charles Dickens. Don’t worry if you can’t understand all the words at first – take it a sentence at a time; explain each little bit you read in your own words and discuss it with somebody else. You might like to write down words that you want to look up. https: //www. collinsdictionary. com/ It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black… It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens

Date: 29/4/20 Lesson Objective: To research the meaning of words that create atmosphere. Here are some words from the description of Coketown that you may need to look up. interminable ill-smelling monotonously melancholy Look at some of the synonyms (words that are the same or similar) for ‘ill’ and ‘smelling’ https: //www. thesaurus. com/ Look up these words in a dictionary. What’s the difference between… • ‘vile’ and ‘sinister’, • ‘noxious’ and ‘rotten’, • ‘acrimonious’ and ‘unwholesome’ Now, use your drawing skills to sketch a careful picture of Coketown, using the description. What kind of place is it? What can you see? What can you smell? How might it feel to walk through it?

Date: 30/4/20 Lesson Objective: To draft ideas by asking and answering questions about a setting. Now, take another look at the picture. Something happened here in the picture several months before it was taken. You have to decide what that event could have been. Answer these questions to help you form your ideas. What could the event have been? Was it some sort of disaster? Was it something that humans had done? What caused this event? Why did it happen here? Who and what did it affect, and in what ways? Who is the little girl? Why is she there? There is a chart on the next page to help you generate some ideas about what you might have seen, heard, smelt and felt both before and after the event. You could copy it and fill it in. You might also want to make a mind map, like the example on the next page, to gather your ideas. You could use some of the sentence starters to help you start your ideas.

Date: 1/5/20 Lesson Objective: To write an atmospheric description of a setting using interesting vocabulary. You have done well to generate your ideas about the atmosphere of the setting. Now write your drafted ideas up into a description and remember to use some of the given sentence starters to help you. Remember that your first idea will not be your best so play around with each sentence; like this: Once, many children played and laughed here but now the girl was alone. Once, car engines hummed and throbbed from the nearby road but now the only sound was the whirring and scuttling of secretive insects. Once, tall, concrete buildings dwarfed the people bustling about their dull, daily business below but now only the whisper of paper-thin leaves interrupted the sky. Once you have finished your work, don’t forget to check your spellings, punctuation and grammar.