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Year 4 the World of David Walliams English and Literacy Home Learning Read and Respond Units Year 4 - Week 6 Provided with our compliments by the English and Literacy LPDS Team Week Six Year 4 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Focus theme: Below are various Look back at your chart Mr Stink The Midnight Gang David Walliams reviews The World of Walliams! opening extracts of from yesterday. Think Read the extract below: Watch/listen to the first David Walliams’ books. about the characters https://www.lovereadin two chapters – up to You have looked at Enjoy a week of Read through the and their relationship. g4kids.co.uk/book/5566 13:15 mins: some extracts this week exploring a variety of extracts and think about You are going to help /Mr-Stink-by-David- https://www.youtube.c from books by David books by David the characters that are David Walliams write Walliams.html (Note: om/watch?v=MCMN8y Walliams. You might Walliams, comparing introduced. (Note: You his next book by helping You will need to register m0oiA have already read some characters, watching will need to register him invent a child and with LoveReading4Kids or all of his books. Do clips of the screen with LoveReading4Kids adult character. to view the extract. How is the start of this you have a favourite? adaptations, reviewing to view the extracts. Draw your characters Membership is free). book similar to the Why is it your his work and lots more! Membership is free). and label them. others that we have favourite? If you Think about: Find these words in the looked at this week? haven’t read any Make a table like the Is your child a boy or a text – can you work out How is it different? before, which was your When following links one at the bottom of girl? what they mean? (Read favourite extract from online, parents should the page and note down Is the adult a man or a the sentence they are Look back at all the this week? Which one monitor that children what you find out about woman? in, the sentence before extracts that you have made you want to read are remaining on that the characters: What will their and the sentence after read this week. Look at more? page only and are relationship be? (Uncle, to help you work out the way David Walliams keeping safe online. Bad Dad Auntie, Grandma, Mum, the meaning). presents his writing, Write a short ‘emoji’ https://www.lovereadin Step Mum, Dad, Step Write down what you e.g. review for three of g4kids.co.uk/book/1588 Dad, Cousin, Sister, Half think it means. Then Aaaaaaarrrggghhh David Walliams’ books, 8/Bad-Dad-by-David- Sister etc.) look up the definition of B or for three of the Walliams.html What do they look like? the word using a extracts read this week. Do they have any dictionary. (See table at A Choose some emojis to Awful Auntie unusual features? the bottom of the page N help with your review. https://www.lovereadin to help create your G You can find some g4kids.co.uk/book/1044 Label your new own). ! emojis here: 1/Awful-Auntie-by- characters. Try to use https://www.wordhipp Why do you think he https://emojipedia.org/ David-Walliams.html some expanded noun o.com/ does this? people/ phrases for your labels, stench What effect does this E.g. Gangsta Granny e.g. On top of her head justice have on you, the © Lancashire County Council 2020 https://www.lovereadin she wore a ruby red residence reader? One of my favourite g4kids.co.uk/book/8164 beret with a large luxuriated Now watch books by David /Gangsta-Granny-by- ostrich feather attached elaborate The Midnight Gang Film Walliams is Gangsta David-Walliams.html to the side. impatiently https://www.bbc.co.uk/ Granny. I like this vagabond iplayer/episode/b0bxc4 book because it is so Grandpa’s Great Escape Write a short paragraph authoritatively t4/the-midnight-gang funny. There are lots https://www.lovereadin to introduce your Note: PG certificate. of parts that make me g4kids.co.uk/book/1383 characters. Include a Now answer these (Watch from 2:40 mins laugh, for example 2/Grandpas-Great- description of what they questions: until 6:20 mins) when Ben and Granny Escape-by-David- look like and some meet the queen! This Walliams.html interaction between the -What are your first You are going to write part made me . characters. Do your impressions of Mr the scene that you have characters like each Stink? Use evidence watched in your own Check your writing for other, admire each from the text to words. Think about the spelling and other, trust each other, support your answer, events that have punctuation. dislike each other or like this: happened since Tom despise each other? Use I think Mr Stink is …. entered the children’s You could share the what they say and do to I think this because in ward. reviews with family show this in your the text it says … members or your writing, e.g. Try and write more Things to think about: friends. As Auntie Ada entered than one impression. -write in 3rd person the room, Isla froze. (he, she, they) Immediately, her eyes -What are your first -write in the past darted to the floor to impressions of Chloe? tense avoid any eye contact. Use evidence from the -include some of your “Look up girl when I text to support your Year 4 skills, e.g. walk in to the room!” answer, like this: fronted adverbials for demanded Auntie Ada. I think Chloe is … where or when From this we can tell I think this because in -include speech and that Isla is scared of the text it says … remember to use Auntie Ada and that Try and write more speech punctuation Auntie Ada is than one impression. properly authoritative. -use some of the When you have David Walliams style © Lancashire County Council 2020 finished, read through of writing, e.g. larger your writing and check words for effect. your spelling and punctuation. After you have finished, read your writing out loud and check for spelling and punctuation. Book Main Adult Child Relationship to Other Character Character each other Character/s Word What I think the word means Dictionary definition Information that Information that we know about we know about them them Bad Dad – Gilbert Son – Frank Dad-son Dad Racing car driver Worshipped his Hero Dad Protective of son Sneaky Awful Auntie Additional activities: If you enjoy David Walliams books, you might want to take a look at his website. https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/books/ Have a look at this website to see books by some different authors. Have you read any? You could make a list of the ones you would like to read and send it to your teacher. https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-4 © Lancashire County Council 2020 .
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