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Welcome!

Year 5 Stay and Learn

Writing

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End of Year 6 expectations

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What can you do?

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Daily reading - to and with

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Vocabulary - never assume

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Writing opportunities

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Writing Journey

  • Immersion and exposure
  • Explicit teaching of skills
  • Research and planning
  • Shared write
  • Edit and evaluate
  • Repeat with an independent piece

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The Highwayman

BY ALFRED NOYES

PART ONE

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

And the highwayman came riding—

Riding—riding—

The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

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So that we can effectively create settings and atmospheres that the reader is able to envision.

Creating a word bank to be used when planning a setting.

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Task 1 - Annotating the setting

Describe your setting in this picture.

  • Expanded noun phrases - the stunning, glistening moon
  • Onomatopoeia - clip-clop
  • Adjectives - eerie, mysterious, deafening silence

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Task 2 - Annotating the setting

Now try:

  • A metaphor is a direct comparison
    • the moon is a ghostly galleon
  • Similes use like or as
    • the road winds like a river
  • Personification is giving something humanistic features
    • the dancing trees were performing for the night stars

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Thank you for listening.

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Questions...

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Things to Remember:

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  • Year 5 email: year5@broadford.havering.sch.uk
  • Mersea medical forms and payment (deadline 12th May)

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