English Home Learning Pack

Summer Term Week 2: 27th April 2020

This is a great opportunity to practice your reading and writing and be as imaginative

as you can!

This pack will provide a writing activity for each day.

For each task there will be an image to inspire your writing and some notes to help

you plan your writing. Try to include the following things in your writing if they

are appropriate!A range of punctuation

Capital letters Full stops Commas

Exclamation/ question marks Colon/ Semi-colons Inverted commas

Brackets/ dashes/ commas A range of sentence types (relative clauses, fronted adverbials,

conjunctions)Adjectives and noun phrases

Year 5/6 words (these are stuck in the front of your workbook)Paragraphs

Task 1:

She had found it lying alone, deserted, abandoned in the attic. After making the discovery, Anna had gazed and marvelled at it for some time. Where had it come from? Why had no dust settled upon it, as it had done over everything else that resided in her attic? A layer of the thick dust blanketed the attic floor, and as the sunlight glared through the attic windows, the dust particles yet to settle were illuminated as they hovered in the stuffy air. Yet, the mirror looked flawless, untouched by age, not a finger print in sight.

Anna propped the mirror up against one of the thick, timber beams that jutted from the attic floor. Settling down into a comfortable position, she tentatively placed a finger against the glass…

Read the story starter and look at the image. Use it to answer the following questions.

1) She had found it lying alone, deserted, abandoned in the atticWhat does this sentence suggest about the attic?

2) What does the word ‘marvelled’ suggest about how Anna looked at the mirror?

3) What was odd about the mirror?4) What impression does the reader get of the attic? Use

evidence from the text to support your answer. 5) What does the word ‘flawless’ suggest about the mirror?6) What does the word ‘jutted’ suggest about the beams?7) Settling down in a comfortable position…

What does this sentence suggest about what the girl is going to do next?

Answer the questions in as much detail as is necessary.

Answers are at the end of this booklet.

Task 2:Look at the mirror image and story starter from yesterday.

Continue the story to explain what happens to the girl and the mirror. What will she discover? What adventure will it lead to?Don’t forget to use a range of adjectives to describe the character, setting and feelings.

Try to make your writing as exciting for the reader as possible.

Task 3:

This die is part of a game that 4 giants are playing. They have drawn a game board on the beach and are playing in the wide

open space. Task: Design a board game for the giants that this dice could

be part of. Write a set of instructions for how to play the game.Plan:

What do you need?How do you set the game up?

Numbered steps for how to play the game.

How do you win the game?

Task 4:

Look at the image above.Write 10 sentences to describe the scene pictured.Challenge:Can 2 of your sentences use a word from the Year 5/6 list?Can 2 of your sentences include some parenthesis (brackets or dashes)?Can 2 of your sentences use a relative clause?Can 2 of your sentences include an expanded noun phrase?

Task 5:

For many years now the piano had stood in silence, like a tombstone in a graveyard, surrounded by echoes, memories of the past.

What things the piano had witnessed! Glorious concerts that delighted the countless ladies and gentleman that dressed up in their finery and flooded into the concert hall: a wave of laughter and joy. Oh, how the piano had shone under the lights! Oh how its keys had sung the most beautiful melodies, bathing the audiences in the movements of Chopin and Beethoven performed with angelic perfection!

Now, everything was different. The events of the last few years had seen to that…

Now answer the following questions:

1) Find and copy 2 phrases that suggest the piano has not been played for many years.

2) What things the piano had witnessed!What does this phrase suggest about the piano’s past?

3) What does the phrase ‘angelic perfection’ suggest about the music the piano once played?

4) Find and copy two pieces of music that the piano has played.

Answers to the questions are at the end of this booklet.

Challenge:

Explain what has happened to the piano over the past few years.

Answers to reading questions

Task 11) She had found it lying alone, deserted, abandoned in the

atticWhat does this sentence suggest about the attic?That it is not cluttered- there is not a lot of items in the attic

2) What does the word ‘marvelled’ suggest about how Anna looked at the mirror?She was very interested in it. She is amazed by it

3) What was odd about the mirror?It was not covered in dust. It looked like it hadn’t been touched.

4) What impression does the reader get of the attic? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. It is very dirty and not visited very often. ‘Layer of think badge’ ‘dust particles yet to settle’

5) What does the word ‘flawless’ suggest about the mirror?It is unbroken or untouched. It has no marks or imperfections.

6) What does the word ‘jutted’ suggest about the beams?They are sticking out at odd angles.

7) Settling down in a comfortable position…What does this sentence suggest about what the girl is going to do next? She is planning to stay there for a while, she isn’t going to move anywhere for a while

Task 5:1) Find and copy 2 phrases that suggest the piano has not been

played for many years. Stood in silence, tombstone in a graveyard, surrounded by echoes

2) What things the piano had witnessed!What does this phrase suggest about the piano’s past?It has been part of some amazing events or experiences.

3) What does the phrase ‘angelic perfection’ suggest about the music the piano once played? It sounded beautiful and never made mistakes.

4) Find and copy two pieces of music that the piano has played.Chopin and Beethoven.