Antelope Class Reading and GHASP

Term 6, Week 2 learning - 8.6.20

This term, we are going to be focusing on developing your reading and GHASP skills, in addition to those on Reading Express.

Therefore, within this learning guide there are grammar, spelling and handwriting activities, in addition to a reading comprehension, for you to

have a go at. Again, please keep sending work to antelopes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk, every

few days or at the end of the week. Thank you, Miss McMillan and Mrs Smith.

Reading comprehension

Read the text on the following slide and answer the questions below, in full sentences. 1. List three features that nearly all birds of prey share. 2. Fro m how far away can a bird of prey spot a rabbit’s ears twitch? 3. Why aren’t owls usually classified as bird of prey? 4. Which bird of prey…

a) hunts of the ground? b) hunts from the sky? c) doesn’t like hunting at all?

5. Which of these birds is usually bald? a) the bald eagle, b) the secretary bird, or c) the vulture.

6. List the two reasons why the lack of features is good. 7. Why does the secretary bird not die from snake bites? 8. Which bird is the national symbol of America? Why do you think America chose this

symbol? Make a list of reasons. 9. Write down 6 adjectives that are used to describe the birds. 10. Why do you think the writers calls these birds the ‘kings of the sky’?

Spellings

Y4 SPELLINGS

Strange

Straight

Special

Separate

Sentence

Remember

Reign

Regular

Recent

Question

quarter

Activity 1: Below are some spellings, I would like you to practise the relevant list of words. Use the strategies on the following slide. Look up any words you do not know the meaning of and put each word

into a sentence. Activity 2: Ask someone to help you by reading the word, without looking at the spellings, write down

the word on paper to see if you spell it correctly. Practise any words you get incorrect.

Y5 SPELLINGS

Soldier

Sincerely

Sincere

Signature

Shoulder

Secretary

Sacrifice

Rhythm

Rhyme

Restaurant

relevant

Spelling strategies:

• Look, say, cover, write, check

• Segmentation strategy

• Quick write – write as many words as possible in a certain time.

• Drawing around the word to show the shape.

• Drawing an image around the word.

• Words without vowels. E.g. field =

• Pyramid words

• Rainbow writing

Activity 3: Put the lists of word into alphabetical order.

Grammar

Apostrophes for contractions.

You can use apostrophes to show that you have omitted (left out) some letters when you are joining words together.

For example, you can join the words ‘you’ and ‘are’ together. You

+ are = you're. The apostrophe takes the place of the removed letters. In this example, the letter a.

Sometimes, however, you need to rearrange the letters a bit

when you contract the words. For example: will + not = won't.

Please watch the following video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zcyv4qt

Activity 1: Write the contracted version for each set below:

Activity 2: Rewrite each sentence out, placing the apostrophe in the correct place to show a contraction of two words.

1. Theyre going to the cinema today.

2. Mary said, “Youve got a lovely house.”

3. Mum told me Ive got to be home by 7.

Did not It is We are You have

They are I am We will Should have

Activity 3: Explain the mistake in each sentence before writing it out, so it is correct.

1. Its cold out’side today.

2. I told her I didn’ot do it.

3. The dog chased after it’s ball.

4. We willn’t be coming for dinner after all.

Activity 4: Replace the underlined words in the sentences below with their expanded forms, rewriting the sentence out.

We’re going into town later, so I’ll buy some bread then. We won’t be back late.

Handwriting