Noun Groups
Learning intentions: I can write a simple noun phrase.
Success criteria: •I can expand a simple noun phrase.
I can use adjectives to expand a simple noun phrase.
I can select adjective(s) to describe a noun to create effects.
I can add expansion after the noun phrase.
Success criteria: •I can expand a simple noun phrase.
I can use adjectives to expand a simple noun phrase.
I can select adjective(s) to describe a noun to create effects.
I can add expansion after the noun phrase.
Complete p38 Noun Groups in Grammar conventions. Fast finishers play Noun Group game
Verb groups
Recount - Postcards from Home by Maureen Stewart
A postcard is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.
Holland
A country in North West Europe also known as the Netherlands famous for it's tulips, windmills, canals, clogs and cheese. Amsterdam is the capital city Dutch is the language spoken. Many people use bicycles as a form of transport. There are three times as many bicycles in Holland as cars.
A country in North West Europe also known as the Netherlands famous for it's tulips, windmills, canals, clogs and cheese. Amsterdam is the capital city Dutch is the language spoken. Many people use bicycles as a form of transport. There are three times as many bicycles in Holland as cars.
Windmills
A windmill is a machine that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. The reason for the name "windmill" is that the devices originally were developed for milling grain for food production; the name stuck when in the course of history, windmill machinery was adapted to supply power for many industrial and agricultural needs other than milling. The majority of modern windmills take the form of wind turbines used to generate electricity, or windpumps used to pump water, either for land drainage or to extract groundwater.
A windmill is a machine that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. The reason for the name "windmill" is that the devices originally were developed for milling grain for food production; the name stuck when in the course of history, windmill machinery was adapted to supply power for many industrial and agricultural needs other than milling. The majority of modern windmills take the form of wind turbines used to generate electricity, or windpumps used to pump water, either for land drainage or to extract groundwater.
Hovercraft
A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle, is a craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary.
A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle, is a craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary.
Gable - the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof.
Yr 4 Reading to Learn Cycle – Term 1
Teaching Goals: To expose students to the conventions of a postcard in order to read postcards and compose their own postcard.
Topic to be Studied: Literacy/Geography/Holidays
Genre of Writing Task: Recount
Language: typical, countryside, windmills, landmark, hovercraft, tulips, England, Holland, France, Amsterdam, Paris, canals, postcard, boarding, gables, narrow, system
Name of the Text: Post Cards Home, Maureen Stewart
Preparation for Reading
Background knowledge: Postcards are a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. The earliest postcard was posted in London in 1840. Postcards are a way that people can communicate while traveling, whether it is overseas or interstate. Postcards have a picture of the place of travel on the front and despite digital technologies such as emails; Flickr and Facebook postcards still hold a place in holiday communications.
Summary of the text:
This text is a postcard, which is a recount. It sent from Grandma to her Grandchildren, Mary and Steven.
In Mary’s postcard Grandma is in Holland, and she writes about the windmills, fields of tulips and bicycle travel. She finishes the postcard by telling Mary where she is going next.
In Steven’s postcard Grandma is describes the city of Amsterdam’s (the capital city of Holland), its canals and the houses beside the canals. She finishes with a comment about how surprised she is about how many bicycles there are in Amsterdam.
Comprehension Questions:
Literal:
Which country did Gran write the postcard from?
What is a Dutch landmark?
Inferential:
Why is the countryside colourful?
Why is travelling by bicycle is popular in Holland?
Interpretive:
Why was Gran travelling to England by Hovercraft rather than by plane?
Why do people travel?
Teaching Goals: To expose students to the conventions of a postcard in order to read postcards and compose their own postcard.
Topic to be Studied: Literacy/Geography/Holidays
Genre of Writing Task: Recount
Language: typical, countryside, windmills, landmark, hovercraft, tulips, England, Holland, France, Amsterdam, Paris, canals, postcard, boarding, gables, narrow, system
Name of the Text: Post Cards Home, Maureen Stewart
Preparation for Reading
Background knowledge: Postcards are a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. The earliest postcard was posted in London in 1840. Postcards are a way that people can communicate while traveling, whether it is overseas or interstate. Postcards have a picture of the place of travel on the front and despite digital technologies such as emails; Flickr and Facebook postcards still hold a place in holiday communications.
Summary of the text:
This text is a postcard, which is a recount. It sent from Grandma to her Grandchildren, Mary and Steven.
In Mary’s postcard Grandma is in Holland, and she writes about the windmills, fields of tulips and bicycle travel. She finishes the postcard by telling Mary where she is going next.
In Steven’s postcard Grandma is describes the city of Amsterdam’s (the capital city of Holland), its canals and the houses beside the canals. She finishes with a comment about how surprised she is about how many bicycles there are in Amsterdam.
Comprehension Questions:
Literal:
Which country did Gran write the postcard from?
What is a Dutch landmark?
Inferential:
Why is the countryside colourful?
Why is travelling by bicycle is popular in Holland?
Interpretive:
Why was Gran travelling to England by Hovercraft rather than by plane?
Why do people travel?
Teacher background for Reading to Learn Cycle 1. Lesson 3.
Spelling
1. Marvellous – (adjective) causing great wonder; extraordinary.
Mar / vel / lous
Base word – marvel - Middle English (as a noun): from Old French merveille, from late Latin mirabilia, neuter plural of Latin mirabilis 'wonderful', from mirari 'wonder at'.
Suffix -ulous : a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, with the meaning “inclined to do, habitually engaging in” the action specified by the initial element: bibulous; credulous; garrulous; tremulous.
Spelling rule: Double the l when adding endings which begin with a vowel to words which end in a vowel plus l (as in travel): (marvels, marvelling, marvelled).
Context Synoymns: amazing, astounding, astonishing, awesome, breathtaking, sensational, remarkable, spectacular, stupendous, staggering, stunning; phenomenal, prodigious, miraculous, extraordinary, incredible, unbelievable.
2. Planned – (verb) an intention or decision about what one is going to do.
Base word – plan- late 17th century: from French, from earlier plant 'ground plan, plane surface', influenced in sense by Italian pianta 'plan of building'.
Spelling rule: If the base word has: one syllable, one short vowel (the short vowels are ham, bed, lip, rot, gun), one consonant at the end
o then you double the final consonant when you add a vowel suffix
slip has one syllable, one short vowel (i) and one consonant (p) at the end so: slip + ed = slipped (double p); bed + ing = bedding; flat + est = flattest; fun + y = funny; hot =er = hotter.
Context Synomyns: intend, make plans, aim, propose, mean, be resolved, have in mind, hope, want, wish, desire, contemplate, envisage, foresee, envision, expect.
3. Morning – (noun) the period of time between midnight and noon, especially from sunrise to noon (morn / ing).
Base word – morn – before 900; Middle English morn ( e ), Old English morne (dative of morgen morning); cognate with Dutch, German Morgen.
Context Synonyms: daybreak, dawn, sunrise, first light.
4. Different – (adjective) not alike in character or quality; differing; dissimilar; not identical; separate or distinct (Dif / fer / ent).
Base word – Differ 1325–75; Middle English differren, to distinguish.
Context Synonyms: 1. unlike, diverse, divergent, contrary.
Suffix ~ ent: causing or performing an action.
5. canal (noun) an artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation (ca / nal).
Origin - late Middle English: from Old French, alteration of chanel 'channel', from Latin canalis 'pipe, groove, channel', from canna 'cane'.
Context Synonyms: inland waterway, channel, watercourse, waterway; ship canal
Spelling
1. Marvellous – (adjective) causing great wonder; extraordinary.
Mar / vel / lous
Base word – marvel - Middle English (as a noun): from Old French merveille, from late Latin mirabilia, neuter plural of Latin mirabilis 'wonderful', from mirari 'wonder at'.
Suffix -ulous : a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, with the meaning “inclined to do, habitually engaging in” the action specified by the initial element: bibulous; credulous; garrulous; tremulous.
Spelling rule: Double the l when adding endings which begin with a vowel to words which end in a vowel plus l (as in travel): (marvels, marvelling, marvelled).
Context Synoymns: amazing, astounding, astonishing, awesome, breathtaking, sensational, remarkable, spectacular, stupendous, staggering, stunning; phenomenal, prodigious, miraculous, extraordinary, incredible, unbelievable.
2. Planned – (verb) an intention or decision about what one is going to do.
Base word – plan- late 17th century: from French, from earlier plant 'ground plan, plane surface', influenced in sense by Italian pianta 'plan of building'.
Spelling rule: If the base word has: one syllable, one short vowel (the short vowels are ham, bed, lip, rot, gun), one consonant at the end
o then you double the final consonant when you add a vowel suffix
slip has one syllable, one short vowel (i) and one consonant (p) at the end so: slip + ed = slipped (double p); bed + ing = bedding; flat + est = flattest; fun + y = funny; hot =er = hotter.
Context Synomyns: intend, make plans, aim, propose, mean, be resolved, have in mind, hope, want, wish, desire, contemplate, envisage, foresee, envision, expect.
3. Morning – (noun) the period of time between midnight and noon, especially from sunrise to noon (morn / ing).
Base word – morn – before 900; Middle English morn ( e ), Old English morne (dative of morgen morning); cognate with Dutch, German Morgen.
Context Synonyms: daybreak, dawn, sunrise, first light.
4. Different – (adjective) not alike in character or quality; differing; dissimilar; not identical; separate or distinct (Dif / fer / ent).
Base word – Differ 1325–75; Middle English differren, to distinguish.
Context Synonyms: 1. unlike, diverse, divergent, contrary.
Suffix ~ ent: causing or performing an action.
5. canal (noun) an artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation (ca / nal).
Origin - late Middle English: from Old French, alteration of chanel 'channel', from Latin canalis 'pipe, groove, channel', from canna 'cane'.
Context Synonyms: inland waterway, channel, watercourse, waterway; ship canal
Reading to Learn - Narrative
Background for James and the Giant Peach
London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom.
London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom.
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo in the world. It is England's best loved zoo and is in Regent's Park, a suburb of London. The zoo is sometimes called Regent's zoo.
Rhinoceros - Members of the rhinoceros family are characterized by their large size, as well as by an herbivorous diet; a thick protective skin and a large horn. These species are native to Africa and to Southern Asia.
The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd.
The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd.