The class have been reading ‘Running Wild’ by Michael Morpurgo as part of a ‘Keys to Literacy’ project. This time we were looking at the key “Description Detective”. We had to scan through the chapter and pick out great description. We were looking for adjectives, similies, metaphors, aliteration, onomatopoeia words etc. We also were looking at ‘Scene Stealer where we had to draw a detailed picture of our favourite part of the chapter.
“…the shadow came into the light, flickered into a flame of orange fire, and became a tiger…”
“…a toucan flew off a sudden flash of colour…”
“…the tiger was right below me now, gazing up at me out of unblinking amber eyes, magnificent, awesome, teriffying…”
i learnt that even though a peice of writing may be funny it is not necaceraly good description
i found that really fun,and i learnt how to do lots of discriptive writing and how to do a deatailed drawing.
i learnt about slimals and meterfors.It was fun but hard to read!!!!!!!!!
I enjoy reading the book and learning about similies, metaphors and onomatopoeia.
At first i didn’t think it would be a good idea everyone reading the same novel. but now as we got further into the book i think its a really good idea. some weeks i find the task really hard and other weeks i find them really easy. from ethan
i found it quite fun. i leanrd that i am not that good at drawing, and you really have to look for good descripshon!
I learned diffrent ways of finding the meaning of a word.
I quite liked being able to be able to use what the author has given you so you can make a picture in your mind that you can draw on paper. I really would like to do it again.
i am enjoying the book and i have learned how to put more information into my discriptions