Home Learning Y6
Story Writing
Homework: To write an exciting story based on the pictures below. You could write a flashback story, a mystery story, an adventure story - your choice! You could even include a diary entry in your story, a letter, a mini newspaper article - mix it up and have some fun with playing around with story writing!
You should include:
-paragraphs of different lengths
-sentences of different lengths to create suspense
-exciting introduction
-setting and character descriptions
-dialogue between characters (direct and indirect speech)
-Expanded noun phrases with pre and post modification (eg: The tall trees with dark brown branches that looked like claws swayed in the wind and cut through the night sky.)
-showing changes between formal and informal
-conjunctions (but, so, because, or, yet, as, when, while, even though, although, since, despite)
-full range of punctuation (full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, colon, semi-colon, dash, hyphen, brackets)
-adjectives, powerful verbs, adverbs, personification
-past tense, past progressive tense, past perfect tense, subjunctive form
-active/passive voice