Year 6 July 13 th YOUVE MADE IT

Year 6 July 13 th YOU’VE MADE IT YEAR 6 WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!

Spelling- Wow word revision

Reading task 1

“Go on, I dare you!” Ralph muttered boisterously across the table to Harry, with a grin etched across his mischievous face. “Go on, Harry, rub the magic coin!” “Ha! Don’t be so silly! There’s no way that rubbing a stupid, old coin will make me shrink!” Harry laughed, as he picked up the coin and started rubbing it vigorously. “You see! Nothing!” he announced, pointing at his friend. Later that evening, the dare was long forgotten, forgotten until midnight when everything changed…

What will happen after midnight? Question s: Why do some people do stupid things when they’re ‘dared’ to do so? Would you ever do something silly to impress your friends? Is it good to be a daring person? How would you respond if you were dared to do something that you know wasn’t right?

Grammarrevising sentence starters Revising sentence starters. How many different ways can you think of starting a sentence in an interesting way? Do you remember each of these?

Remember these different ways of starting sentences? Try to use each of these starters to write a variety of sentences about courage or being brave. You could start with a boring, simple sentence such as: I was brave when I saw a spider. This could become: Terrified, I entered the room, palms sweating and teeth chattering as in the corner, I spied a creature whose shadow cast on the wall above… Can you hear how much more tense the second version is? Have a go. Challenge: Write the same sentence using all six different openers from the grid.

Paragraph Introduction What changes are you facing now? Why are you writing to yourself? Remind yourself of 2 or 3 occasions when you did something to overcome a tricky situation. What was the challenge? What did you do to overcome the situation? How did you feel? So what are you going to do now to help with this change? What do you wish for your future self? Main points Writing- plan a letter to your future self.

Wednesdaywrite your letter Success Criteria: Range of sentence starters (use your grammar lesson to help you). Write in second person (use the pronoun -you/ yours) Change tense appropriately between past and present.

- Read backwards to check for spellings - Spelling corrections are written 3 times under your writing - Read forwards, does your writing make sense? Editing - Read forwards to check for punctuation and capital letters - Read forwards – one final check - Now start your self-assessment using the success criteria Finally write your next step.

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