Thursday 26th March  Literacy Tasks:

TASK 1 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the new literacy jotters that are in your packs.

WORD OF THE DAY – EARNEST

In your jotters, you can set it out like this:

WORD: Earnest

Meaning:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Uplevelled Paragraph:

TASK 2 – GET SPELLING BOOKS

Please complete Choose the Right Word then any pages/ Special Focus you haven’t completed.  (Special Focus pages up to the unit that you are currently working on).

Please revise this week’s spelling words from Monday ready for spelling test tomorrow.

TASK 3 – Scholastic’s Learn at Home Article  https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/021720/search-for-a-monster.html#960L

1. Read this article about the Loch Ness Monster.
2. Once you have read the article, create some of your own literal and inferential questions based on the article.  We have been working on these questions in class, remember literal questions are questions that come directly from the text and inferential questions involve the reader having to search for clues to answer the question.
3. Ask someone to home to read the article and then answer your questions, or ask a classmate to answer them by commenting on this post.

Additional Task – Complete the ‘Continue the Learning Journey’ tasks at the bottom of the article.