Year 4 English WB 15/06/2020English Home learning Grid (Y4) newspaper report

Reading comprehension attached at the bottomPlease write the date and WALT in your book and complete each day.

Some of these activities may need adult support however other tasks can be completed independently.Please make a comment on how much your child was supported in each activity.

Monday 22 nd June WALT find the key features of a newspaper.Independent taskActivity: Using today’s resources read through the three newspaper reports. Which is your favourite and why? Which is the worst one and why? Now look at the success criteria that Miss Newcombe created, is everything there in the 3 extract?. Challenge: Can you label the key sentence styles that were used to aid you later on?

Tuesday 23 rd June WALT be able to organise my ideas into writing.Independent taskActivity: watch this clip about the wedding of Prince William and Catherine, fill in the sheet below to help you think about reporting key information – the 5 W;s and a H (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How)Challenge: Can you write interesting fronted adverbials?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNRn5N-u80Y Wednesday 24 th June WALT distinguish between fact and opinion.Independent taskActivity: Read the statements on the sheet below, decide if they are a fact or an opinion. Then read the news article by Newsround, using the same colours decide what is fact and what is opinion.Challenge: find your own news article – are there more facts or opinions, why do you think this is?

Thursday 25 th June WALT use direct speech (quotes)Independent taskActivity: Have a look back through all the articles that are in this pack and highlight all the speech – what do you notice? Do they follow the rules on the poster under Thursday’s resources AND what do you notice about all the speech verbs? Past tense!!Challenge: see on today’s sheet.

Friday 26 th June WALT use reported speech.Independent taskActivity: reported speech is where you do not say exactly what has been said, you summarise it. You do not need to use speech marks/inverted commas when writing reported speech. Look at the examples below and then turn the direct speech given into reported speech.Challenge: look through newspapers and magazines, can you find 3 examples of reported speech?

Spellings Year 3/4Learn these 10 spellings from your spelling list.

Suppose, possible, medicine, grammar, describe, arrive, believe, different, group, mention

Challenge: can you write them into sentences on Friday with your spelling test?SUPER challenge: can you include any in your setting description?

GlossarySuccess criteria – what you need to include to be successful Fact – something that we know, or can prove, to be true.Opinion – a view, or judgement, that is not always based on fact or knowledge.Third person –You are telling us what is happening, how people are feeling, uses she, he, him, her, they, them.Past tense – when writing in a newspaper report the event has already happened – I walked, I ran, we sang…

Monday 15 th June Feature Article 1 Article

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3A catchy HeadlineA by-line (the name of the writer of the

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Year 4 English WB 15/06/2020article)PhotographPast tense (it has already happened)Chronological orderQuotationsClear paragraphs- TiP ToPDetails that bring it aliveSummary, or conclusion with authors comments/feelings

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Tuesday’s resource

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Year 4 English WB 15/06/2020SPaG: To use fronted adverbials for when & where

Watch the clip about the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and complete the table about Who, What, When, Where, Why and How the event happened.

Who is the report about? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What happened? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________When did the event happen? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Where did the event happen? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Why did the event happen? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________How did the event happen? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday’s resource

Create a coloured key to decide whether these statements are fact of opinion. Colour each statement appropriately. Key: Fact Opinion

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Year 4 English WB 15/06/20201. Girls are better than boys.2. The first moon landing was in 1959.3. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.4. Miss Newcombe has a dog called Ki.5. Looe Primary is the best school in the whole world.6. Our school had to close because of corona virus.7. Looe Primary is situated in the beautiful town of Looe, on the South West coast of England.8. London is the capital city of England.9. Boys are better at football than girls.10. School dinners are delicious.Now look at this Newspaper article – can you highlight the facts and the opinions in the colours you have chosen.

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Thursday’s resources

Look at these quotes. Add in inverted commas (speech marks) and any other punctuation.

1. My favourite hobby is being a soldier said William proudly2. My home town was Looe it is beautiful explained George

Challenge:Write examples of direct speech.Think about the clip of Neil Armstrong, can you think of 3 quotes he might have said, and how he would have said them. Don’t forget punctuation.Friday’s resources

Examples: (1) Direct speech: “I’m waiting for the train,” said Jason.

Reported speech: Jason said that he was waiting for the train; 8

Direct speech uses:

speech marks the speaker’s actual words new speaker, new line Narration about who said it

can go before, after or in amongst the speaker’s actual words.

Reported speech: doesn’t use speech marks changes pronouns, and often also

changes word order adjusts verb tenses (and time

phrases if necessary) usually starts by telling you who

spoke often uses “that…” – but you can

omit it if it sounds all right without it.

Year 4 English WB 15/06/2020OR: Jason said he was waiting for the train.

(2) Direct speech: “I’ll go tomorrow,” Anne told Haris, “and you can come with me.”

Reported speech: Anne told Haris that she would go the next day and that he could come with her.

Now use these rules to turn the following short sentences into reported speech. 1. “I am going to ride my bike later,” said Paul.

Paul said he ________________________________________________________2. Katie announced, “My dog Lucy has just had puppies!”

____________________________________________________________________ Sometimes you need to add a connective so that your reported speech makes sense:

3. “Make sure you put on suncream, Tim,” said Mum, “it’s a hot day.”

Mum told Tim to _____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________ 4. “Dad,” asked Hassan, “what is that big box for?”

____________________________________________________________________ 5. “I will pay you back next week, Bethany,” Adam promised.

____________________________________________________________________ Sometimes you need a different verb:

6. “See this, Aysha?” Olivia called proudly, “it’s the birthday present my grandma gave me.” Olivia proudly sh_____________________________________________________

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