Our Power of Reading book is Skellig
12-year-old Michael and his family have recently moved into a house. He and his parents are nervous, as his new baby sister was born earlier than expected and may not live because of a heart condition. When Michael goes into the garage, he finds a strange emaciated creature hidden amid all the boxes, debris and dead insects. Michael assumes that he is a homeless person, but decides to look after him and gives him food. The man is crotchety and arthritic, demanding aspirin, Chinese food menu order numbers 27 and 53 and brown ale. Michael hears a story that human shoulder blades are a vestige of angel wings.
Writing
Throughout Year Six we practise writing in a range of genres:
- Story writing with descriptive settings
- Persuasive writing
- Recounts
- Chronological and non-chronological reports
- Formal and informal letters
- Instructions
- Explanations
- Biographies
- Diaries
Sometimes it can be difficult to remember all the necessary features of the different genres, so here is a writing genre checklist to help!
Reading
We encourage the children to read a wide variety of genres too. We complete reading journal tasks for every book we read that help us further understand the text and meaning.
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
We have been working hard to learn lots of aspects of grammar, such as parts of speech, verb tenses and the functions of a range of punctuation in preparation for the SATs test we will cover in this area in May.
Click on the following links for general revision and games:
Click here for spelling, punctuation and grammar games.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/ (general literacy revision)
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/literacy/index.htm (general literacy revision)
Year 6: SAT Revision; SPAG links for Year 6 pupils
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/grammar-test-1/
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/category/grammar/
http://www.british-study.com/quizzes/grammar-test.php
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_advancedreview.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html
http://www.majortests.com/sat/grammar.php
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/niu/niu16.htm
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ei013/esl-test.php
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/
http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_grammar.html
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_55.htm
http://www.allaboutcommunication.com/PunctuationTest.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9380154/Back-to-basics-the-questions-that-all-11-year-olds-will-face-next-year.html
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/spelling.htm
http://smad.jmu.edu/AdmissionPunctuationExam.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Punctuation.htm
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/punctuation_mastery.asp