Overview of English tasks and activities for Week 9 (22/6/2020)

Remember you can take photos of your work or draw or write in your

portfolio using your dojo child login.

Every day: Keep reading to a grown up. Use the books on EPIC and books you

have at home.

Over the week:

Our second week on our unit all about Journey to the Jungle! This week you will

be writing your log book entry and some instructions for discovering a

mysterious creature.

Day 1: Re-read the Jungle log entry and answer the comprehension questions in

your book. Complete the grammar exercise to practise writing sentences that

add detail using simple joining conjunctions ‘and’ or ‘but’ and use fronted

adverbials to signpost when an event happened.

Day 2: Write your own Jungle log

Day 3: Read the Instruction text ‘How to uncover a Soupee Bird’. Design and

label a trap to tempt your creature out of its hiding place.

Day 4: Use the planning frame to plan your own set of instructions to tempt

your creature out of its hiding place.

Day 5: Write your full set of instructions using your planning sheet to help you.

Remember to use imperative (bossy) verbs. Perhaps you could include a picture

of your creature too? Please find time to complete your regular spelling test.

Spellings – Learn your spellings daily ready for a test on Friday. Use your

neatest handwriting to write your sentences. There are also some optional

spelling activity sheets at the bottom of this document.

Handwriting- log on to letterjoin and rehearse letters and words that you know

you find difficult (lots of you need to work on f and g and y). There are lots of

games on here, have a play!

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Last week we looked at adding detail using simple

joining conjunctions ‘and’ or ‘but’ and using fronted

adverbials to signpost when an event happened,

Use the planning frame on the next page to help

you include all of these details.

Root words are very important when finding out how to spell the word endings

that sounds like ‘shun’. So we will start by recapping what a root word is.

Root words:

Root words are the basic words before any suffix or prefix is added. They

often help us work out the meaning of the word. For example; in the word

‘happily’ the root word is happy.

Can you identify the root word in the words below?

Root word + suffix or prefix Root word

reopen open

disloyal

information

playful

misunderstand

wanted

helpful

magical

misplaced

exclaiming

Watch the video at:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/zyv4qhv

Now draw a line to match the word ending, root word and the correct suffix.

Root word ends in…. Suffix to add

c or cs (magic or mathematics) tion

d or se (expand or tense) cian

ss or mit (permit or confess) sion

t or te (invent hesitate) ssion

Here are the spellings to learn for this week- don’t forget to ask a grown up or

older sibling to test you on Friday.

Year 3 Year 4 Challenge

lecture famous mention

literature nervous extreme

mature ridiculous guard

miniature carnivorous forward

mixture herbivorous possible

moisture porous

sculpture adventurous

signature courageous

temperature outrageous

texture advantageous

Root word + suffix or prefix Root word

reopen open

disloyal loyal

information inform

playful play

misunderstand understand

wanted want

helpful help

magical magic

misplaced place

exclaiming exclaim

Root word ends in…. Suffix to add

c or cs (magic or mathematics) tion

d or se (expand or tense) cian

ss or mit (permit or confess) sion

t or te (invent hesitate) ssion