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Session 1 Read the story ‘The King of the Fishes’ and record

your answers in your Home Learning books.

Reading Task

1. What did Li usually do with the fish that he caught

a) take them to market to sell b) put them back c) eat them

2. What was special about the king of the fishes?

a) it was large b) it was beautiful c) it had a family

3. How did Li save the King of the Fishes?

a) he scooped it up b) he put it back in the sea c) he gave it a wish

4. How long did it take Li to decide on his wish?

a) all evening b) a few weeks c) all day

5. Whose baby did Li hear at the end?

a) his and his wife’s b) a neighbour’s c) someone’s in the forest

Writing Task:

1. Re- read the extract above. Underline and write down the adjectives used

to describe the fish.

Watch https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znpbgwx and revise what

an expanded noun phrase is.

2. a) Write a short paragraph describing your own King of the Fishes.

Remember to use descriptive language (expanded noun phrases). Try to think

of detail to include colour, size, special features to make it memorable to you

and the reader.

b) Draw a picture of your own ‘King of the Fishes’ based on your description

bright shiny huge minature beautiful

spotty mulit-coloured dark scales fins

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Session 2

Reading task

a) Re-read the text King of the Fishes and look up the words highlighted in yellow

using a dictionary. Record the words and meanings in your books

Words Dictionary definition

whip (verb)

whip (noun)

precious (adjective)

reflection (noun)

c) The word ‘whip’ has

different meanings. Can

you match up the

picture to the correct

meaning of the word.

Writing Task

Use each of the words below and write them in a sentence. Make sure you check your

spellings. Can you use a fronted adverbial, conjuction and adverb in each sentence?

whip

precious

reflection Suddenly, Polly caught sight of her reflection in the mirror and

gasped out loud.

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Session 3 Text ‘A fish in a spaceship’

A fish in a spaceship is flying through school.

A dinosaur’s dancing on top of a stool.

The library’s loaded with orange baboons,

in purple tuxedos with bows and balloons.

The pigs on the playground are having a race

while pencils parade in their linens and lace.

As camels do cartwheels and elephants fly,

bananas are baking a broccoli pie.

A hundred gorillas are painting the walls,

while robots on rockets career through the halls.

Tomatoes are teaching in all of the classes.

Or maybe, just maybe, I need some new glasses.

— Kenn Nesbitt

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Session 3

Read the poem, ‘Fish in a spaceship’ and record your answers in your Home

Learning books.

Reading Tasks

1) Where is the dinosaur?

2) What is in the library?

3) What are the pigs doing?

4) Who is baking a broccoli pie?

5) Why is the author seeing all of these strange things in this poem?

6) In the first stanza (group of lines), orange baboons are wearing tuxedos.

What is a tuxedo?

Writing task Look at the 4 poems that have been started below

Task 1

i) Write the number of syllables in each line

ii) complete the final line and end with a word that rhymes with the

highlighted word. The first one has been done for you!

1) Our picnic was ruined (6)

by too many ants. (5)

At least I am grateful (6)

they did not eat my pants! (5)

d) Tomorrow we’re having a test

at the beginning of class.

I didn’t remember to study…

_______________________

Task 2 Have a go at writing your own funny poem. Collect your rhyming pairs

first (car/far). Try to establish a simple rhythm by counting out the syllables.

It doesn’t have to make sense!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/z83g2nb

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Session 4 text Stories from other cultures

Ananse, the forgetful guest – Part 1

This is a West African story about Ananse. The mythical

halfspider/half-man

character.

Ananse had journeyed for miles

and miles. Now after several days of

tracking through the forest, his

journey was almost at an end.

Ananse could think only of one

thing—food. On the nights he had

spent in the forest, he had

dreamed of food—hot steaming rice and spinach sauces, or crab and

palm nut soup. Now he was at last in the great town of Po-Ano, a

guest of none other than the king of the coast lands. The king was a

kind man, and after making sure that Ananse had been given a room,

water to bathe and a change of clothes, he instructed his servants

to prepare a meal for him. Imagine the pleasure Ananse felt as the

smell of cooking food filled his nostrils.

"Let me guess," he chuckled to himself. "This will be rice and

chicken stew that's cooking." Unable to wait any longer, Ananse

dressed quickly and followed his nose to the kitchen.

"Ah, Mr. Ananse, you are most welcome," said the servants. "You

must be very hungry after your long journey." "Yes, indeed," replied

Ananse. "Right now, with the smell of your food filling this room, it is

my pleasure to be hungry."

With a flourish, the servants lifted the lid off Ananse's bowl. But

at the sight of the food, Ananse collapsed, for in the bowl was the

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most despised of foods—dried cassava mash. He couldn’t face eating

it! He pretended to faint and the servants called for help.

By the time help arrived, Ananse had emerged from his sudden faint.

"It is nothing," said Ananse weakly. "It’s just that I’m allergic,” he

lied. “Cassava is forbidden to me. Even the sight of it affects me.”

“Oh, dear,” said the king. "I am afraid this is going to be a difficult

visit for you. In this town we eat cassava at every meal."

Impossible, thought Ananse. This must be a trick to test me. Why

would people eat cassava at every meal? But they did! In the

mornings they ate cassava porridge, in the afternoons they ate

cassava mash, and in the evenings they ate their cassava roasted.

Ananse had to go out each day to find moist leaves and bugs to eat,

for the news had spread that cassava was forbidden to him.

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Session 4

Read the text ‘Ananse the forgetful guest’ and record the answers in your home

learning books

Reading Task

1. What food had Ananse dreamt about?

2. What was the name of the city he came to?

3. What did he hope for when he arrived in the city?

4. What did Ananse think he had smelt?

5. What food had been prepared for him?

6. Why did Ananse pretend to faint?

7. What lie did he tell?

8. What problem did this leave Ananse?

9. What did Ananse have to go and eat?

Writing Task: Predict the end of the story

What do you think could happen in the second part of the story? Will Ananse

get to eat? How might that happen? Use Story Summary and Predictions to

show your idea. Use words and pictures in the first three boxes to tell what has

happened so far. Use the next three boxes to tell what you think might happen

next.

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This is the end of the story

about Ananse - the half-

spider/half-man character.

The last day of Ananse's

visit fell on the harvest

celebrations. A great feast was anticipated. By now Ananse wished

strongly that he could be allowed just a small bite of cassava, which

the people of Po-Ano cooked in so many delightful ways. There were

spicy cassava fries, cassava and vegetable stir-fry, not to mention

the soups and stews with which cassava was served.

That night, he hatched a plan. The next day dawned bright.

Everywhere, people bustled about preparing food and preparing

themselves for the feast in the public square where the king would

be in attendance. Early that afternoon the people of Po-Ano

gathered and the king made his entrance. But Ananse was nowhere

to be found.

Then in the lull before the dancing started, a very odd figure in the

rough clothes of a farm labourer appeared.

"Ananse!" the king thundered. "What is the meaning of this...this

insult! Why aren’t you wearing proper clothes?"

"I beg your pardon, sir, but I thought we were going harvesting

today," said Ananse.

"No!" shouted the crowd. "Today is the harvest celebration!"

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"Oh, no," said Ananse, hanging his head in apparent shame. "You

must think I'm crazy but really I'm not. It is just this awful

forgetfulness that comes over me occasionally. It is the same

forgetfulness that made me say cassava was forbidden to me when

actually it is one of my favourite vegetables!"

The king was pleased to forgive him and pleased that he did eat

cassava. The people of Po-Ano were pleased to share their feast

with him. Many secretly thought that Ananse was kind of strange,

but since his visit people sometimes plead his kind of forgetfulness

whenever they are caught in a sticky situation.

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Session 5

Reading task

1) What was being celebrated on the last day of Ananse’s visit?

2) Where in the town was the feast being held?

3) What reason did Ananse give for wearing farm labourer clothes?

4) At what time of day did the King enter?

5) How was the King feeling when he first saw Ananse wearing the clothes?

What evidence in the text supports your answer.

6) Why did Ananse pretend to be forgetful?

a) To get himself out of a difficult situation

b) Because he had always wanted to try cassava

c) Because he was trying to deceive the King

Writing task Imagine you are Ananse the spider

Write a Thank you letter to the King. Explain the reasons in detail for why you

are grateful to him and what you enjoyed during your trip. Use polite language.

- He offered you a room after a long, tiring journey. How did that help you?

- He was kind and generous. How did that make you feel?

- He invited you to the Harvest celebration. What did you enjoy?

- He offered you food when you were hungry. How did that help you?

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Dear King of Po-Ano,

I am writing to express my thanks for your wonderful generosity over the last

couple of days.

I really appreciate…

Thank you so much for…

I particularly liked…

I very much hope to…

Yours sincerely,

Ananse

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