English
English
This week, we will continue using the Oak Academy for our English lessons. On their website, you will watch a video of a lesson taught by a teacher. Then, you be given some activities to have a go at.
These lessons will build up skills throughout the unit and you will produce a final written piece in lesson 5. Use the button in the right hand corner of the screen to navigate between sections of the lesson. You can pause the video and come back to it at any point.
If you have not finished last week's lessons, please finish those off first before starting a new unit. Remember to take a photo of your final piece every Friday to email in.
This week, you’re going to be reading and writing character descriptions.
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Monday 6th July
To warm up your brain, have a look at this week's spelling list and do the activities.
Then, you are ready to get started on today's learning. You have done lots of work on fact retrieval using Oak Academy so you should be applying the skills you have learnt to help you answer the questions. Look at the key words and see if you can find them in the text. This will help you answer the questions correctly. Remember to note down the word of the day to use in your own writing. Answer the questions in your book or on paper. Please write neatly, with joined handwriting.
Lesson 1 - Character Description: Reading comprehension - fact retrieval
Tuesday 7th July
To warm up your brain today, do some Doodle English.
Then, start today's main lesson. Remember to note down the word of the day to use in your own writing. Make sure you understand all the text. If you don’t, look the words up or ask an adult. When it asks for evidence, you need to use the information from the text. Answer the questions in your exercise book or on lined paper.
Lesson 2 - Character description: reading comprehension - inference
Wednesday 9th July
To warm up your brain, do some Doodle Spellings or Nessy (if you usually do Nessy at school).
Then, get started on today's lesson. You will been given the 'key features' list in this lesson. Make sure you refer back to it later in the week when you write your own. We’ve not looked at parenthesis (using brackets or dashes to add extra information) in year 4 (you will do in year 5) so please don’t worry too much about this! Remember similes are ‘as’ or ‘like’ something else; a metaphor ‘is’ something else; and alliteration is two or more words next each other beginning with the same letter or sound.
Lesson 3 - Character Description: Identifying key features of a text
Thursday 9th June
Start by watching this video to improve your vocabulary. Maybe you'll learn some new words that you can use in your writing.
Vocabulary - Clever or Sly Words
Then, get ready for today's SPaG lesson on subordinate clauses. Remember to note down the word of the day to use later in your own writing. Listen really carefully to the teacher's subordinate clause explanation. Make a note of the different subordinate conjunctions you can use. Your answers may be different to hers but if they make sense when you read it out loud, you are correct.
Lesson 4 - Character description: SPaG focus - subordinate clause
Friday 10th July
Today, you are creating your own creature. You need to watch today’s video really carefully to help you with your writing. The questions you need to answer are:
What does it look like?
Where does it live?
What does it eat?
What features does it have?
What are its personality traits?
There are lots of questions they ask you on the video and you can refer back to those on the slides later on to help plan your character description. It may help to draw the creature as well and answer the questions. They’ve given you lots of ideas to help or you can make up your own.
Lesson 5 - Character description: write a character description
When you have finished, ask your parents to take a photo of your character description and email it to the Year 4 email address. Mrs Simmons can't wait to read your writing.