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We hope you enjoy these creative writing tasks! You can complete the tasks at your own pace throughout the week.

We would love to read some of your writing, if you would like to share it with us send it to the year5 email address. , week beginning 13.07.20.

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Year 5 - Creative Writing Home Learning Pack

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Unit of work

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18 March 2020

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A home learning pack designed to promote home learning during school closures, focused on Creative Writing and promoting Literacy skills. The small unit is focused on the video “Ride of Passage” and utilises and expands upon ideas provided on the Literacy Shed.

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Activity: Perform a poem

Read the poem, talk about what it means, and perform it to an audience.

5. Find story inspiration

You can find fun story ideas anywhere! Why not raid your kitchen cupboards or hunt through the attic to find lost treasures? Anything from an old hat to a telescope will do the trick. What could the object be used for? Who might be looking for it? What secrets could it hold? Suggest different genres such as mystery or science fiction and discuss how the item might be used in this kind of story.

Real-world facts can also be a great source of inspiration. For example, did you know a jumping flea can accelerate faster than a space rocket taking off into orbit? What crazy story can your child make out of this fact? Newspapers and news websites can be great for finding these sorts of ideas.

For more storytelling ideas, download our free Story idea generator  or our Character profile activity sheet .

Activity: Story idea generator

Activity: Character profile

6. Draw your ideas first

If your child isn’t sure where to start with a story or even a piece of non-fiction, it can sometimes be helpful to sketch out their ideas first. For instance, can they draw a picture of a dastardly villain or a brave hero? How about a scary woodland or an enchanted castle?

Your child might also find it useful to draw maps or diagrams. What are all the different areas of their fantasy landscape called? How is the baddie’s base organised?

Some children might enjoy taking this idea a step further and drawing their own comics. This is great practice – it stretches your child’s creativity, gets them thinking about plot, character, and dialogue, and is a big confidence boost once they’ve finished and have an amazing story to look back on.

What your child will learn

In Year 5 (age 9–10), your child will work towards being able to:

• Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing
• Noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.
• Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
• In narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
• Using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (for example, headings, bullet points , and underlining).
• assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
• proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
• ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing
• ensuring correct subject and verb agreement when using singular and plural , distinguishing between the language of speech and writing and choosing the appropriate register.
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.

Handwriting, spelling, grammar, and punctuation are all important aspects of writing too. You can find out more about them on our dedicated pages:

Handwriting in Year 5 (age 9-10)

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There are lots of writing ideas and resources on this page which I will keep adding to. The green words on this piece of text will also take you to some useful videos and websites for creative writing tips:

Lauren Childs , Oxford Owl , Usborne publishing , Suspense writing , Tips for parents , Relative Clauses , Similes and Metaphors , Using speech , Parenthesis song , Expanded noun phrase song , Persuasive writing videos , Parenthesis , Creative writing tips , Expanded noun phrases , Personification , Describing characters , Describing settings , Planning a story  

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Creative Writing

Write at least 2 pages using the following title.

In your writing you could:

• Explain the situation;
• Describe the thoughts and feelings of the person or people involved;
• Try to make your reader share the experience through your choice of words and sentences.

PLAN YOUR ANSWER!

In your writing you should:

• Make your writing interesting for your reader – use verbs, adverbs and adjectives to achieve effects;
• Present your ideas clearly, organising your writing into paragraphs;
• Write using accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation;
• Include an interesting beginning and ending for your writing.

In your writing, try to use the following:

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

Task: To complete a piece of creative writing.

What you need to do: Choose from one of the following story starters/writing prompts. You can write in any type of genre: A letter, a poem, a story, a short story, a play, a blog, a diary, a newspaper report, persuasive writing Remember that you need to include some powerful vocabulary but just start writing and have fun!  

Writing prompts/starters:

You’re digging in your garden and find a fist-sized nugget of gold.

The asteroid was hurtling straight for Earth…

There’s a guy sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper…

He turned the key in the lock and opened the door. To his horror, he saw…

Silvery flakes drifted down, glittering in the bright light of the harvest moon. The blackbird swooped down…

The detective saw his opportunity. He grabbed the waitress’s arm and said…

There are three children sitting on a log near a stream. One of them looks up at the sky and says…

You find a door at the end of the garden. What do you do?

And you thought dragons didn’t exist…

Write about nature.

You walk into your house and it’s completely different — furniture, decor, all changed. And nobody’s home.

Write about one (or both) of your parents. Start with “I was born…”

The most beautiful smile I ever saw…

Here is a poem using metaphors about James Bond

He is a bar of dark chocolate,

A smooth black cat’s coat,

An exotic fruit cocktail,

A silver Porsche disappearing into the distance.

He is a plate of caviar,

A blade on a knife,

A frothy cappuccino,

A piece of black silk.

He is a midnight alarm,

A tiger disguised as a pussycat,

A jet plane,

A perfect day.

Your task is to write a poem in the same style about either a fictional character or a celebrity. It could be about a character from a book or film. It could be a celebrity from sport, the music industry, the film industry or even the Royal family.

Think about these questions and write some interesting metaphors: What do they look like? What do they do? What are they famous for? What is their character like?

How to Play a Favourite Game

our school has been asked to make a book of instructions for children’s favourite games. These might be games you play at home or school. It could be a game you enjoy playing with your friends. It must not be a game you play on the computer. 

Your task is to write a set of exact instructions to explain how to play your favourite game. Remember, the person who will be reading your instructions will never have played this game before.

Planning ideas - Title of the game, equipment needed, aim of the game, step-by-step details

The Electric Skateboard

You have been asked to promote a new type of skateboard. It is powered by an electric motor and has rechargeable batteries. It is operated from a wireless hand controller.

Your task is to write a persuasive article for a parent’s magazine explaining the functions and advantages of the electric skateboard. You need to make it sound like the best Christmas present any child could ever want! 

Planning Questions

What are its uses? How is it unique? Why is it fun? Cost and maintenence? Features? 

Collect words and phrases to help you persuade parents to buy this skateboard.

The Argument

A group of friends, who are slightly older than you, have asked if you can come to town on Saturday. Your parents are not keen for you to go. Continue the play script below

(Emma and Mum are in the kitchen.)

Emma: Mum! Anna and Henna are going to town on Saturday. They asked if I could go too. Is that O.K.?

(Mum has a concerned look on her face.)

Mum: I don’t think so dear, you’re much too young.

(Emma pleads.)

Emma: But Mum, I’ll be fine. 

(Dad enters the room.)

Dad: What are you two talking about?

Planning ideas - Think about the characters in the play. What are they like? What are the arguments for and against Emma going to town?

Time Travel

One evening you go to your computer and accidentally press one of the keys you have never pressed before. Suddenly you are transported into a different time! Your task is to write about where you travel to, what the place is like, who you meet and how you manage to get home again.

Where did you travel to and what form did your transport/journey take? (Remember: You can travel back or forwards in time.) What is the place you visit like? Who do you meet? What are they like? How do you manage to get back home?

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Story Atmosphere Planner (Years 5-6)

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Paradise — Changing the Mood of a Text (Years 5-6)

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• Lesson 2 - answers.pdf
• Lesson 3 - divide with remainders.pdf
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Week 4 Home Learning - April 27th 2020

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• Lesson 1 - rounding decimals.pdf
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• Lesson 3 - understand percentages.pdf
• Lesson 4 - percentages as fractions and decimals.pdf
• Lesson 5 - equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.pdf
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Week 3 Home Learning - April 20th 2020

• Weekly Timetable April 20th.docx

F Maths Resources - Week 3

• Lesson 1 Adding decimals with the same number of decimal places.pdf
• Lesson 1 (answers).pdf
• Lesson 2 Subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places.pdf
• Lesson 2 answers.pdf
• Lesson 3 Adding decimals with different number of decimal places.pdf
• Lesson 3 answers.pdf
• Lesson 4 Subtracting decimals with a different number of decimal places.pdf
• Lesson 4 answers.pdf

W Maths Resources - Week 3

• Lesson 1 Compare lengths.pdf
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• Lesson 2 Order lengths.pdf
• Lesson 3 Four operations with lengths.pdf
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Week 2 Home Learning - April 13th 2020

• Weekly Timetable April 13th.docx

F Maths Resources - Week 2

• Lesson 1 Adding decimals within 1 (questions).pdf
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• Lesson 3 Complements to 1 (questions).pdf
• Lesson 4 Adding decimals crossing the whole (questions).pdf
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Play in a Day - 12/03/2020

The children in Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed taking part in Play in a Day yesterday. Their play was called 'Grecian 2000' and linked to their History topic of The Trojan War and their English text of Odysseus. The children's acting skills were amazing and had the whole school and parents in fits of giggles.

Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.

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