Description

Contents: Introduction; Unit 1. Storybook: Developing story talk; Prediction and inference; Narrative and dialogue conventions and tenses; Refining word selection; Reading aloud; Writing an introduction; Unit 2. Going Deep: Alphabetical order; Key words, sentences and phrases; Using a contents page; Non-fiction text features; Summarising; Oral presentation; Unit 3. Mind Pictures: Understanding poetic terms, exploring kennings; Using a thesaurus, working with rhythm and rhyme, interpreting images, planning with a mind map, writing a colour poem; Unit 4. Just Imagine: Using apostrophes; Descriptive adverbs; Story tenses; Forming questions; Working with dialogue; Formal and informal writing; Dramatic reading; Presenting a storyboard; Unit 5: Making the News: Working with brochures and news articles; Developing visual literacy; Understanding instruction; Summarising information; Sequencing information; Identifying fact and opinion; Writing a news article; Unit 6. Sensational Poems: Exploring rhythm and rhyme; Increasing vocabulary; Using poetic devices for sound and image; Reading silently and aloud; Working with punctuation; Writing a shape poem; Unit 7. What Would You Do?: Exploring informal language; Making predictions; Identifying significant events; Sentence length and connectives; Degrees of comparison; Summarising; Reading aloud; Developing and performing a play script; Unit 8. Food for Thought: Investigating and analysing persuasive texts; Using fact and opinion; Using connectives and adjectives persuasively; Designing an advertisement; Writing a profile; Debating and oral presentations; Unit 9. Poems to Ponder: Practising and performing poems; Identifying mood; Prefixes and suffixes; Using similes and personification; Developing listening skills; Developing word selection skills; Writing a sun poem; Spelling Activities; Term 1: Root words; The y rule; Compound words; Syllables; Letter patterns and sounds; Silent letters; Word endings; Term 2: Adding suffixes; Working out spelling rules for adding suffixes; -logy word families; Build word families; Vowel sounds; Homophone scan trip you up!; Term 3: Comparative spelling; Root words; Nifty numbers; Cardinal and ordinal numbers; Short and long vowel sounds; Toolkit: Parts of speech and articles; Punctuation; Reading skills; Poet’s Corner; Looking for information; The writing process; Reading aloud essentials; Exercise your listening skills; Editor’s handbook; Acknowledgements.