Week 2 Monday 27th April to Friday 1st MayYear: 3/4 Subject: ENGLISHLesson for: ALL WEEK_________________________________________________We are learning about: You will be using this stimulus to write a story about the alien by the end of this week.

_________________________________________________How will I show my learning?IN YOUR BOOK. ON GOOGLE DOCS.UPLOAD A PICTURE.

_________________________________________________How will my work be marked? YOUR TEACHER WILL COMMENT.ASK AN ADULT TO MARK YOUR WORK.

_________________________________________________What to do:

1. Read the instructions carefully.2. Use stems (in blue) to help you.3. Use the word bank provided to write the story on Friday.

Summer Term 5_Week 2_Year 3 and 4_ENGLISH

Stimulus: Why are aliens visiting our planet?

Day Activity

1 HOT SEAT!

Create 5 questions to ask this alien who has just arrived on Earth.

e.g., Who sent you here? Did you mean to come to earth or was it an accident?

Once you’ve written your 5 questions, answer them as the alien (you might want to name him).

e.g., Who sent you here? The leader of our planet sent me here to find out about humans and how they live.

Challenge: Write as an alien who speaks differently and spells some words incorrectly (hoomans).

2 This alien is from a planet called Pandora.

Think about these questions:

How far away is it? Who lives there? What’s the weather like? Who is in charge? Are they kind? What do they eat? What do they do with their day?

Write a paragraph as the alien explaining to humans what it is like there. Make sure you use adjectives to describe and give detail about how it is different or similar to planet Earth.

Challenge: Can you make sure you add some relative clauses in this paragraph?

e.g., The alien, who’s from planet Pandora, is really kind.

Planet Pandora, which is really far away, is bright and colourful.

3 Here is a sentence starter written by another pupil.

'___________ pushed open the rusty door of his sphere and peered out anxiously. He definitely wasn’t in Pandora anymore...

The character is called _______________ and he’s just opened the door of his sphere and realised that he’s crash landed onto a different planet.

TASK: Write the next 3-5 sentences to complete the first paragraph.

What does he see? What does he do next? How is he feeling? Does he meet anyone else?

Challenge: Can you add speech into this paragraph where he is talking to himself? E.g. “I wonder what’s up there?” ______________ thought to himself.

4 Today your task is to plan your story.

Characters (who?)Setting (where?)Introduction and build up (How does he feel when he lands? Is he happy to be there?)Problem (Who does he meet? Does he happy? Is he stuck here?)Solution (How is the problem fixed?)Ending (How does he get home?)

Challenge: Can you create a list of 5 adverbs that you will use in your story? e.g., suspiciously, angrily, curiously.

5 Use your plan to write your story.

You will need: Capital letters and full stops*Paragraphs (if possible)Expanded noun phrases e.g. A curious alien.Fronted adverbials e.g. Suddenly, Filled with fear, Anxiously, Adjectives - describing wordsParagraphs

Here are some sentence starters:

When * opened the door… Out of nowhere, he saw… An hour or so later, he decided to… Bravely, * began to explore his surroundings...After a while, he came to the realisation that… Just then, his eyes began to… In a flash, he could see a…

Challenge: Can you add hyphenated adjectives into your writing?

***COMPETITION TIME***The best story will be read aloud by their teacher and posted on

google classroom!

See below for a word bank.