Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Year 3 English Week 14A note about this week’s English:This week, there are four lessons that build up to and prepare for a piece of writing at the end of the week. In class, children are used to using the colour-coded Success Criteria system of what is expected in a lesson:Green = what is expected of all children. Some children may need support to meet this statementAmber = many children will also be able to achieve this statementRed = some children will challenge themselves to achieve this tooPlease get in touch with any questions and to share work if you would like to. Twitter:

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Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

In each of the following diary entries can you highlight

Conjunctions yellow

Fronted adverbials red

Address green

Greeting pink

Can you also answer questions about each text?

- In a letter conjunctions are used to make the writing flow. Time conjunctions are often used at the start of a paragraph.

- Fronted adverbials are words or phrases which go at the beginning of sentence to provide extra information.

- In a letter you must include the address of the sender and the recipient.

- The greeting in a letter often starts with ‘Dear’ or ‘To’.

MONDAY 29 th June LO To identify features of a letter.Success Criteria:

I can identify conjunctions, fronted adverbials, an address and a greeting.I can answer questions about a letter.

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

1. Letter to Miss Smith

- Find and copy one reason why Mr Chair wants Merlin to go to the zoo.

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- Name two things that Merlin should spend his days doing.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

2. Letter to the Mayor

-Who

do you think has been working hard on the vegetable patch ? _____________________________________________________________________

- Why does Martha enjoy spending time in the garden?

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- Why does Martha was the Mayor to come to the opening?

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Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Identify

Can you sort these conjunctions into time conjunctions and not time conjunctions?

Time Conjunctions Not time conjunctions

Firstly, and, but, secondly, because, for, nor, finally, next, furthermore, after that, consequently

Controlled Practice – Fill in the missing gap.

TUESDAY 30th June LO To be able to use conjunctions, fronted adverbials, an address and a greeting.Success Criteria:

I can identify time conjunctions. I can use fronted adverbials in controlled practice.I can apply my understanding of greetings to write a letter.

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Apply

Write a short letter to one of your friends explaining what you have been getting up to these past few weeks. Make sure you include your address and your friends address. If you don’t know your friends address, you can make it up!

WEDNESDAY 1 st July

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

LO To gather language for writingSuccess Criteria:

I can collect a range of conjunctions.I can use fronted adverbials.I can use first person pronouns.

Can you collect conjunctions to use in your letter?

Conjunctions

Also, furthermore,

Can you collect fronted adverbials?

Fronted adverbial

Taking this into consideration, subsequently,

Can you collect first person pronouns?

First person pronouns

I,

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

As Big Billy Goat’s Gruff you will be writing a letter to the Council to convince them to get rid of the evil troll!. Remind yourself of the story ‘The three Billy Goats Gruff’. Your letter will have an introduction, 3 middle paragraphs and a conclusion.

Have a look back at the features you found in the first lesson and try to include features you identified to help you make your fact file effective.

Use the planning format on the next page to write your key points in note form. You can add extra lines if you need to.

P1 – Who? What? Where? Why? Why are you writing and what are you asking for?

P2 – When did you first notice the troll being a problem? How is the troll affecting you?

P3 – How is the troll affecting your family? What is the troll stopping your family from doing?

P4 – How is the troll affecting your friends and the community? Is everyone scared to go out?

P5 – Summarise your main points. Why is it so important to you as the oldest goat?

THURSDAY 2 nd July LO To plan for writing.Success Criteria:

I can write in note form and include details from yesterday’s language gathering.

I can include conjunctions, fronted adverbials, an address and a greeting.

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Today you are going to write a letter to the Council to convince them to get rid of the evil troll! Remember that the letter is from Big Billy Goats Gruff.

Re-read the examples from the first lesson to remind yourself what a good one looks like, use your work from the word class lesson, gathering language lesson and your plan yesterday.

Start by writing out your checklist so that you have something to tick at the end to check you’ve included everything that you thought would make your writing effective.

Feature Tick

Use the word mats below to help you too.

Pointers:

- Paragraph 1 should start with – I am writing to…- Paragraph 2 should start with – Firstly…- Paragraph 3 should start with – Furthermore…- Paragraph 4 should start with – Also…- Paragraph 5 should start with – Finally…

Please share your writing with your teacher by email, Twitter or the blog!

FRIDAY 3 rd July LO To write a letter.Success Criteria:

I can write in paragraphs using my plan and my checklistI can re-read and edit and improve my writingI can write a paragraph to explain what made my writing effective

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Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading

Year 3 WEEK 14 Writing, SPaG and reading