Park Mead Primary

Spring Term 1

English: 

• Writing to Entertain - Change tales

We will be continuing to use the Talk for Writing approach to teaching writing.

Grammar and punctuation is taught as part of the process of writing a story. Our focus for this unit of writing is including dialogue. We will be learning to tell our reader who is speaking, learning to use verbs other than said to report speech and also putting beginning a new line when the speaker changes. We will be looking at why we might use speech in our writing and what our choice of words can tell a reader about a character.

• Non-negotiables: Every time the children write at school we ask them to make sure that they have put a full stop at the end of every sentence, that they have used capital letters to begin sentences and for names, that they have finger spaces between their words, and that they have used a question mark at the end of a question.  

Reading:

 Read as much as you can at home. This website is a great source of free e-books:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Phonics and Spelling:

Spelling homework will be set on Spelling Shed each Tuesday linked to the spelling or phonics that the children have been learning that week. Our expectation is that the children will spend a minimum of 10 minutes playing Spelling Shed games at least 3 times per week. Please check the front of your child's reading record for their log in details.     

This week's spelling challenge: Click here to download and print