Year 5 English

 Easter Holiday English Homework

 

Your homework is to read a book and then answer the following questions in your reading diary.  List any other books that you have read as well.  Don’t forget to add a comment about each one.

 

 

 

 

 

Year 5 (Mrs Morelli)

 

 

 

How has the author started this in an interesting way? How does this make the reader want to read on?

 

 

 

Did any characters help each other in this story?  How did they do this?

 

 

 

Write about one important event that happened that could not be left out.  Say why it was so important.

 

 

 

 

 

Year 5 (Mr Tuckwell)

 

 

 

Why do you think the author chose this particular setting for this story?

 

 

 

Many traditional tales have messages.  What do you think your story is trying to tell you?

 

 How did one of the characters change their ideas/attitudes during the story?  What was it that brought about this change?

 

A useful website:

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/englishH

 Writing an argument:

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/writing/argument/watch.shtml

Help for Story Writing

 

 

Practise Your Punctuation

Parts Of Speech

Writing Better Sentences - using conjunctions

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Practise Your Spellings