Personal Reading-
Ensure you are keeping up with a personal text of your choice and discussing what you read with others. As an example of pace you should be reading at least 3 chapters per week. Try answering some of these reflective reading questions about your reading:
Comprehension-
Fantastic Women Who Made History: Read the non-fiction book and complete the task grid.
Fantastically-Great-Women-Who-Made-History-PDF
Access this lesson about character inference from BBC Bitesize daily lessons. Answer the questions it poses from the example text.
Access this lesson about summarising and giving your opinion from BBC Bitesize daily lessons. Answer the questions it poses from the example text.
Access this lesson about skimming and scanning from BBC bitesize daily lessons. Answer the questions it poses from the example texts.
Try this BBC Bitesize daily lesson about making predictions about the text. Answer the questions it poses from the example text.
Try some of these reading comprehension passages:
Non-Fiction-Reading-Revision-Mat
Try these film literacy comprehension mats, you can find the clips by scanning the QR codes:
Finding-Nemo-Comprehension-Mat
Grammar-
Check out MC Grammar on YouTube. He posts fantastic video lessons for P5-7 all about various articles of grammar!
Use BBC Bitesize daily lessons to explore these grammar topics:
- writing direct and indirect speech
- paragraphs
- relative clauses
- verbs and tenses
- fronted adverbials
- using hyphens and dashes
- using apostrophes
Try this work all about relative clauses:
Spelling-
Use the P7 Active Spelling Menu to practise the class weekly word list found on the homework page.
Give this spelling activities a go:
Correct the Spelling Mistakes Questions
Complete this lesson from BBC daily bitesize, all about homophones.
Complete this lesson from BBC daily bitesize, all about silent letters and unstressed vowels.
Complete this lesson from BBC daily bitesize, all about prefixes.
Complete this lesson from BBC daily bitesize, all about suffixes.
Writing:
If you can, complete daily writing by watching NewsRound and taking notes about what you hear. Create a daily report to give the news to your family.
Use this writing grid for ideas about what to write. Make sure you plan your writing, and proofread for any mistakes. Why not let a family member proof read, then you can edit your work.
