Last Friday was our first experience day of our new writing unit. We watched a clip of a girl who attended the Martin Luther King Jr’s speech. We reflected on what we had seen then built ideas from the clip using our senses and some of the writing lenses. We took part in a gallery walk to magpie ideas for our mini crew and praised each groups ideas. Finally, we built some figurative language based on what we will write about in plot point 1 of our setting descriptions.
Today we took part in a grammar day with a focus on cohesive devices. We firstly watched some clips looking at main clauses and subordinate clauses. We consolidated our knowledge through a variety of activities before building our own sentences using subordinating conjunctions within sentences and at the start of sentences. We worked with our partner well to move sentences around. During our afternoon session, we looked at adverbials and experimented with prepositional phrases. We unpicked a model of writing then finally built our own sentences using different adverbials and prepositional phrases. Here you can see some of our work as well as our anchor chart showing all the work we have built together. I can’t wait for you to get writing PP1.
