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Our most recent Power of Reading book is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
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