English Story Home Learning: Year 3 Please 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. Please find the Guided Reading Activity on pages 7 and 8 ! Monday 29th June Tuesday 30th June

WALT: watch and talk about a news article. WALT: sort articles into themes.

Activity: Watch an episode of and choose one article to discuss with a Activity: friend or adult. Think about the following: Read through some newspaper articles – if you don’t have newspapers at home, use a news app What is the article about? What is the theme? (E.g. sports/lifestyle/national etc…). on your ipad/laptop (e.g. BBC News/Sky News etc…). Can you group the articles you have read How does the presenter make it exciting? What information is being presented? What into suitable groups/themes (for example, sports/lifestyle/national/cultural etc…). Which is did you like about it? your favourite theme to read about? Challenge Think of a creative title for the article, using some alliteration to catch the attention Challenge of the reader/watcher. Read the article that relates to your favourite theme. List the features that appear in the article (use the checklist on the resources page to help you) Wednesday 1st July Thursday 2nd July

WALT: write detailed notes about a chosen article. WALT: use the features of a newspaper article to write my own.

Activity Starter: Read the article on the resources page. Use the checklist to identify the key Watch an article that relates to your chosen theme on Newsround. For example, you features that have been used in the article. You will need to include these features in your may want to focus on a sport based article, i.e. an FA cup match report (just type in article. You can also watch the video by clicking on the link below to help you with your sport Newsround or culture Newsround etc…). Write a detailed list of notes about the features! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z2yycdm/articles/z2gk9qt news article. For example, what is it about? What is the key information? Where did the event/news take place? Complete a time line for the article, listing the 4 key events Activity in time (chronological) order. Using the notes you made yesterday, write your own article based on the Newsround report your watched (yesterday). Remember to refer to the checklist to help you structure and Challenge write your article. Think of a creative title for the article, using some alliteration to catch the attention of the reader/watcher. Challenge Can you use paragraphs? Friday 3rd July SPELLINGS

WALT: use the features of a newspaper article to write my own (2). Objective: I can learn 10 spellings from my spelling list. Activity Words to practise: potatoes, surprise, therefore, pressure, minute, guard, difficult, bicycle, Continue writing article. Remember to refer to the checklist to help you breath, disappear. structure and write your article. You could create a poster/game/picture/bubble writing or complete a speed write to help you Challenge learn your spellings this week! Can you add a picture with a caption?

Thursday 2nd July 2020 – Starter, checklist and writing template