Literacy Homework 7th February 2014

This week we have been continuing our topic on adventure stories in Year 3. We love adventure stories in Big Ben class!

Which adventure stories are your favourite?

When writing your comment, try and answer these three questions:
1) What is the name of the adventure story and who wrote it?
2) Can you describe what happens in the story briefly?
3) Can you explain why it is one of your favourite stories? What does it have that makes it a great adventure story?

Literacy Homework 31st January 2014

Literacy Homework 31^st January 2014.

This week in Literacy we have been looking at how we can change familiar stories. We have taken 'Kidnapped' and changed one thing about the story. Your task this week is to write a different ending for the story ‘Kidnapped’. What do you think happened after Ron met Cindy Breakwell in the old house?

 Try to use lots of descriptive vocabulary to make the ending come alive!

Literacy Homework 24th January 2014

Literacy Homework 24th January 2014

This week in Literacy we have been reading and retelling a short story called 'Kidnapped' by Pie Corbett. 

Somebody was coming up the stairs! Ducking down behind an old crate, we waited. I could feel my heart thumping like a bass drum and my throat felt tight and dry with dust…and the crush of fear. What if we were caught? The strange girl glanced at me through the semi-gloom and grinned. I thought that she was trying to be reassuring.

Gradually, the door opened and we could hear someone tiptoeing in. There was a pause and then a torch flickered on. Its beam stabbed the darkness, seeking us out, nosing into all the hidden corners. Holding my breath, I tried to make myself as small as possible. After a few moments, the light switched off. Whoever it wasstood quite still, listening. We could hear each rasping breath. Then the door shut and the footsteps clicked back down the stairs. Relieved, I let out a sigh. As we clambered out of the window and slithered down the wet roof, I was trying to remember how I had got into such a mess.

It had only been half an hour ago when Mum had sent me down to the chippie with a tenner and strict orders for no vinegar on her chips. When I reached the Stroud roundabout, I couldn’t help looking at the old house. It was ready for demolition, which was a shame because we had played there for years! It was then that I’d seen it; a light at the window. Then I saw a face. I stood there staring. It was a girl, mouthing a word and the word was, ‘HELP’.

That’s how it happened. I’d broken in round the back through a smashed window. Half a minute later and I’d found her, a trapped prisoner in an upstairs room. She’d only just finished telling me that she was the American ambassador’s daughter, Cindy Breakwell, and about the ransom money when the kidnappers had returned to move her to a safe house.

So there we were, balancing on the wall, as if we were walking the plank. Gripping the guttering tightly, I lowered myself down. Five minutes later and we were back at Mum’s. “So Ron, where’s the fish and chips?” she asked, eyeing Cindy suspiciously.

Half an hour after that, Cindy’s Dad arrived in an embassy car. All the net curtains on the St Petroc’s estate started to twitch with curiosity. That night it wasn’t just chips for tea. He took us all out for a big meal. Amazingly, the next day, there I was in the local paper. A hero.

Can you retell the story in your own words?  Challenge - Try to retell it in less than 100 words. 

Literacy Homework

Literacy Homework - Friday 17th January 2014


This week in Literacy we have been writing and editing our own Extreme Environment shape poems. Our class have written a range of shape poems about icebergs, snowflakes, polar bears and penguins. Here is an example we came up with. What features can you spot? 


                                     A
                        giant
                         icy iceberg is
                as delicate as icicles.
         Slippery pieces sliding down
              the iceberg and cracking
                  open under the grey,
                              dirty
                            water.

Literacy Homework

Literacy Homework – 10^th January 2014

This week we have been looking at shape poetry and

calligrams. We have noticed that some shape poems have

alliteration in them.

Can you create a whole sentence using alliteration?

Here is an example to help you...

E.g. My mother munched many mangoes.

Literacy Homework

Homework- Due Thursday 19^th December

For homework this week, write an acrostic poem based on a winter theme. An example is shown below. You don’t have to just use the word winter for your poem, it is up to you!

Wonderful snow

Icicles hanging

Never falling

Trees covered in snow

Excited for spring

Remembering winter is fun

Literacy Homework

Literacy Homework- Friday 6th December

 

Can you describe this wintery setting? Write a descriptive passage using adjectives, adverbs and a range of language that will help to paint an image in the readers mind.

Homework is due in on Thursday 12^th December.