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We are learning to write our We are learning to write our own riddlesown riddles
We are learning to write our We are learning to write our own riddlesown riddles
What am I? I have no colour, not even white,but sometimes I’m wide and blue. Sometimes I’m still, sometimes I rush,and I can fall down on you.
I can change my shape, I often do,but I’m hard to hold in your hand.You need me to make your castle stand upwhen you’re playing in the sand.
I haven’t much taste, but on a hot dayYour tongue’s hanging out for me.Then I am cold, but I can be hotWhen I’m in your mum’s cup of tea.
What am I?
WATER!
Rules for Writing a ‘What am I?’ Riddle
• Write at least 6 clues about different things.
• Use present tense (mostly!)
• Try to be clever!
• Begin each sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full-stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
• Use a comma before but.
• Finish with a question – What am I?
Over to you!• With your Literacy partner, think of a
type of food. Don’t tell anyone else!
• Write at least 6 clues about this type of food to make a riddle.
• Take a whiteboard each, to help you to plan.
Describe your food!• Is it hot or cold?• Do you have it for breakfast, lunch or dinner?• It is soft or hard and crunchy?• Can you make it into something else?• What does it taste like? Sweet, salty or bitter? • What do you normally eat it with?• What do you normally eat it from?• What colour is it? (Can it be different colours?)• It is a fruit / vegetable / dairy / animal?
