Writing Overview Year 5 Week beginning – 4 May

Write the story that they’ve always wanted to write

Question time!What happened three months ago?

Who is the girl in the picture?

What has she spent the last three months doing?

Why do you think there are so many animals gathered in this place?

Who do you think used to live in these houses?

Why have they become so overgrown?

How will the animals react to her presence? How will she react to them?

Sentence challenge! (Use BBC Bitesize Daily Activities for Support)

1. Investigate Setting Description

Oak National Academy lesson Setting description: Identifying features of a text

2. Use prepositions for effect in setting description

Prepositions show the position of an object in relation to another. They show the relation between two objects – prepositions tell us where something is: behind, through, between, beside, underneath etc.

Proudly, the deer cast his eye over the deserted sight.

Write 5 sentences based on the picture using prepositions to show the animals / girls / metal barrels / buildings/ woods position (use a different preposition each time).

3. To use alliteration and onomatopoeia

Alliteration is when the same letter or sound begins two wordsWicked witch Silly sausageDirty Dog Open and Honest (sound)

Write alliteration for the barrels, the girl, the deer, the fox

Onomatopoeia is when a word imitates the sound in describes:Splat oink boom crashWhoop whack shush blurt etc

Write 5 sentences, based on the picture, that use onomatopoeia

Sick sentences!These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you help by adding alliteration, onomatopoeia and prepositions?

The girl walked through the woods. There were metal objects on the ground. She was scared.

Perfect picture!Choose one of the objects in the picture and describe it in 100 words, think about what it was used to be like too.

Use Onomatopoeia, alliteration, prepositions

LO: Use descriptive language in order to create meaning

Story starter!It had been three months since it had happened. It had been three months since she had seen another living soul. She had to be brave if she was to make it through…

Continue the setting description using onomatopoeia, alliteration and prepositions

LO: Use figurative language to develop setting, character and atmosphere

Extra Writing Activity: The girl finds an object on the site, which cause a flashback to what happened (100 words)

LO: Build cohesion within a paragraph through the use of conjunctions