Literacy17/09/21Tuesday

Task One: Grammar

Write a definition of the following homophonesand put them into an interesting sentence:

Buy:Bye:Saw:Sore:

Task Two: Reading

You are to select a book from either bug club or ePMs. Read it aloud and then completeone of the following activities. If you are unable to access ePM’s or bug club, please leave acomment and Mrs Stojanovski will get back to you ASAP. For this week, please choose aFICTION book. Remember a FICTION text is an imaginative text - it’s not real!

My book is called: __________________________ written by ____________________

Sketch To Stretch

Select one sentence fromyour book and illustrate it

with a lot of detail.Remember to include any

inferential or assumedinformation.

For example, if your book isset in a park, you would

assume it was a sunny day. Ishould see a sunny day in

your drawing.

Awesome Adjectives

Find 10 adjectives in yourstory and use them in

interesting sentences. THEN,write down any bump it up

words you can think of.

Eg: bigI gazed up at the big kite

floating in the wind.

Huge, large, gigantic,colossal would be examplesof bumping up your work!!

Character MindMap

Draw a picture of the maincharacter and using clues

from your book, write downeverything you know aboutthem. Their likes, dislikes,what makes them happy,

favourite foods, hobbies etc...

Whirly Words

Find 10 interesting words inyour book. Jumble (mix) themup and write them alongside

the words spelt correctly.

Lovely Letters

Write a letter to the author.Tell them what you enjoyed

about the book, what they didwell as an author and what

you would change if you hadwritten the book.

Quick Questions

Write down 10 questions youwould ask a student aboutthis book if you were theteacher. Your questions

could start with who, what,when, where, why or how.

Persuasive Poster

Design a poster to persuadecustomers to buy this book.

Why should they read it? Whyis it so good?

Author’s Purpose

Explain why you think theauthor wrote this book. Isthere a special message or

lesson they’d like the readersto learn? Are they trying to

teach something? Findevidence in the text.

Task Three: Writing

Learning Intention: We are learning to compose an informative text.

This week, we will be looking at informative texts. The purpose of an informative text is toshare, teach or provide information about a topic. Informative texts are factual. Thatmeans, the information does not change. Informative texts come in lots of modes: visual(posters, pamphlets, commercials), written (reports, books, magazines, newspapers) andoral (speeches, presentations…)

Lesson Two: Fact or Fiction.

Seperate the following statements into fact and fiction.If you are working on google docs, you can change the colour of the text; red for fact, bluefor fiction.If you are working on a print out, you can cut them up and glue the facts together, and thefiction together, OR colour code them in the same was as above.If you are working in a book, you can rewrite them.

Penguins cannot fly. The Emperor Penguin is the tallest of all penguinspecies, reaching as tall as 120 cm in height.

Penguins love to tap dance. Penguins use their feet like sur�oards.

A Penguin’s black and white plumage serves ascamouflage while swimming. The black plumage ontheir back is hard to see from above, while the whiteplumage on their front looks like the sun reflectingo� the surface of the water when seen from below.

Penguins eat a range of fish and other sea life thatthey catch underwater.

Penguin feathers go curly in the water. Penguins can talk and go on adventures.

Penguins enjoy skateboarding Emperor Penguins often huddle together to keep

warm in the cold temperatures of Antarctica.

Why do you think it’s important to know the di�erence between fact and fiction whencomposing an informative text?