Writing Speech – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

After having time to work alongside out partners to write speech, it was now time to write speech independently. We watched the video, took note of what was being said and by who before recording this in our books and punctuating it. It was lovely to see some children push themselves to green and experience with having the reporting clause at the start and end of the sentence.

Inverted Commas

In our writing lesson today, we had the opportunity to start creating a bank of speech that we could use in our writing along with our shoulder partners. We have become more confident with being able more the reporting clause. In our next lesson, we’ll work more independently to demonstrate our ability to punctuate direct speech

Prefix or Suffix?

In our grammar lesson this afternoon, we looked at what prefixes and suffixes are and what they do to a root word. We found out that a prefix goes at the start of a word and a suffix is added at the end of the word. We played the prefix pair game, where we matched up the correct prefix to the root word. We had lots of fun and was then able to apply this to our independent learning task.

Heading and subheadings ✏️

In grammar this afternoon, we looked at why headings and subheadings are used in nonfiction texts. We discussed how headings are used to tell you what the page is about and subheadings are used to tell you what the paragraph will be about. We then had a go at matching the paragraph to the correct subheading.