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Term 6 week 7 Monday 13th July 2020

Word of the week: putrid

• What does this word mean? • What word class is it? • Write a sentence that includes this word.

For example:

A foul, putrid stench was coming from beneath the floorboards.

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Monday 13th July 2020To understand a text

You need to read this text:

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Monday 13th July 2020To understand a text

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Monday 13th July 2020To understand a text

Now answer these questions. Make sure that you use the text and answer in full sentences:

1. What is a sapling?2. Why can't the little trees grow tall?3. What is the significance of the old tree dying?4. Give one reason why it is important that the saplings grow quickly.5. How long will a sapling wait to grow taller?6. Why has the author included a photograph of the stinging shrub?7. Give three places in the rainforest where the stinging shrub grows.8. Use the photograph of the stinging shrub to draw a diagram and label it using the information from the paragraph and caption.9. What happens to the rainforest if it is badly damaged?10. Complete this fact box:

Can you think of an event that would cause a huge gap?

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Tuesday 14th July 2020

What is a parenthesis? Parenthesis is the addition of extra information or an afterthought in our writing. It can be a word, phrase or clause marked with brackets, dashes or commas. When a parenthesis is removed, the sentence still makes grammatical sense.E.g. I moved to Sheffield in 2011 (when I was six years old). still makes sense as:I moved to Sheffield in 2011.

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Tuesday 14th July 2020

To identify the parenthesis in a sentence.

Identify the parenthesis and use the correct punctuation around it. Remember the 3 different types that you can use. 1. My brother the one who lives in Australia is coming over for Christmas.

2. Cambridge won the boat race for the 3rd year in a row.

3. The Amazon rainforest the largest in the world is under threat from deforestation.

4. Superman wearing his red cape called his friends to join his fight against evil.

5. Sanjeev the older brother took Dev to the park.

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Tuesday 14th July 2020To present informationYou need to read this information really carefully as you will be presenting it in a different way!

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Tuesday 14th July 2020To present information

Now that you have read the text, you need to create a poster to inform your reader of the different ways plants get to the sunlight.

For your poster to be successful you need: • an attractive border;• an eye­catching title;• subtitles ­ to make the information easy to read;• illustrations with labels to show your reader the information.

Don't forget you can email me your finished poster or upload it to Purple Mash!

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Wednesday 15th July 2020To use parenthesis to add detail

By day, Beetle Boy is a normal boy [hint: what is his name?] who attends a normal primary school. But by night, he becomes the toughest superhero the world has ever seen [hint: compare him to another superhero] and spends his time fighting villains. His shell is so strong [hint: what is his shell made out of?] that he is able to withstand anything hitting him [hint: give an example] without even the slightest bruising.

If his friends ever realised the amazing powers he has [hint: describe some of his powers], Beetle Boy would be asked to show them off every day at school. He knows that, as a superhero, he has sworn to keep his super powers a secret [hint: explain how this makes him feel] and use them only to protect the world from evil.

Make this story setting more exciting and interesting with the addition of parenthesis. There are a few hints but you can use your own ideas if you wish!

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Wednesday 15th July 2020To interpret informationThe information below is muddled up and needs to be sorted out and matched to the correct heading! Go to the next page when you have finished!

EMERGENT LAYERCANOPY FOREST FLOOR SOIL

RAINFOREST LAYERS

Here the very tallest trees rise above the forest. there is sunshine, rain, wind and changing temperatures.

This 40­45 metres above the forest floor. Leaves and branches stretch to reach the sunlight. Birds, monkeys and bats climb and fly among the branches

This is the foundation of the rainforest and it is filled with bacteria, roots, fungi and small creatures.

UNDERSTOREY

Inside the forest the air is moist and cool. The temperature hardly changes. Shade loving plants grow well here. snakes, insects and small mammals live here.

Beneath the trees is covered in fallen leaves. Seeds and seedlings wait for a chance to grow. Insects and ground dwelling animals live here.

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Wednesday 15th July 2020To present information

Use the information you sorted on the last page to complete this rainforest diagram ­ draw or print the image and then add the information to each layer!

Think about how you will present this ­

• with the image on one side with the information on the other?• OR the image in the middle and the information all around it?

Which one would be most effective?

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Thursday 16th July 2020To spell homophones correctly

Below are some sentences. Choose the correct spelling of the homophone to fit the sentence.

1. You are not allowed/aloud in there!

2. He walked passed/past the window and glanced at his reflection.

3. The bride walked up the aisle/isle towards the altar.

4. It was a steep ascent/assent, but Tom knew/new the way.

5. He heard/herd the sound of hooves and saw the stallion approaching in the distance.

6. The shoplifter learnt it was wrong to steal/steel and that is had a negative effect/affect on the victim.

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Thursday 25th July 2020To understand informationRead the following information:

Rainforests of the world: Tropical rainforests surround the earth’s equatorial zone and are warm and humid places. They provide shelter and sustenance to an enormous variety of plant and animal species, and they are also home to 50 million Indigenous peoples. Although tropical forests cover less than 7% of the earth’s surface they are home to approximately 50% of all living things on earth!What is Amazonia?Amazonia is a region that includes most of Northern Brazil and parts of the bordering countries of French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Amazonia can be visualized as a funnel (with its wide end at the Andes) draining some six million square kilometres through a complex of rivers that are tributaries of the Amazon River. The Amazon River has the greatest volume of water of any river in the world. The Amazon is also extraordinarily rich in biodiversity. A very large number of Amazonian plant and animal species are “endemic”, meaning that they are found there and nowhere else. Recent estimates from Conservation International indicate that in the Amazon one can find:• 18,000 varieties of plants (c.13, 680 endemic)• 434 species of mammals (138 endemic)• 239 reptile species (59 endemic)• 225 species of amphibians (203 endemic)• And more freshwater fish and primates than anywhere else on the planet!

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Thursday 25th July 2020To understand informationRead the following information:

How old is the rainforest?Rainforests have been around for tens of millions of years.

How much rainforest is gone?In many parts of the tropics, current forest cover is only a fraction of what it was 50 years ago. For example, only 5% of Brazil’s Atlantic coastal forest remains. While the Amazonian rainforest is still largely intact due to its great size, recent data have shown that the scale and rates of deforestation there are actually greater than many published estimates, not less.

Are rainforests the lungs of the earth?Not exactly – they are often given this name because they produce about 20% of all the oxygen in the world. The real lungs of the planet, however, are the microorganisms in the world’s oceans which produce the other 80% of our oxygen. But rainforests do play a crucial role in many of our planet’s ecological cycles – they maintain global rainfall and regulate climate patterns worldwide. Even more importantly, mature forests such as the Amazon and elsewhere store huge amounts of carbon in their vegetation. Burning the vegetation or cutting it down and allowing it to rot releases this carbon in the form carbon dioxide – a major greenhouse gas. Keeping rainforests intact and healthy will go a long way towards combating the threat of climate change and global warming.

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Thursday 25th July 2020To understand informationRead the following information:

Will rainforests regenerate?In some cases this is possible, but the new forest will be a much poorer habitat, home to many fewer species of plants and animals. Rainforest fragmentation leads invariably to biodiversity loss.

What do we use rainforests for?Rainforests are crucial to all humanity. About 1.2 billion people in the world rely on the rainforest for their survival, directly or indirectly. In addition, the destruction of the rainforest creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change – something that impacts us all. And rainforests provide many other important benefits that we all can appreciate. For example, approximately 121 useful drugs currently on the market are obtained from plants, and over a third of these originated in tropical forests. Similarly, much of the food we eat – coffee, bananas, lemons, oranges, cacao, cashews, peanuts, pineapples, papayas, and many more! – comes from tropical forests.Forests regulate water and protect watersheds. Without the canopy breaking the force of heavy downpours, rain can dissolve pastures and cropland into mud slides. The canopy allows rainfall to slowly trickle down, rather than rush into rivers and flood the surroundings. In 1998, for example, Hurricane Mitch left 11,000 people dead and many more homeless in Central America. The destruction was caused primarily by deforestation.

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Thursday 16th July 2020To understand information

Now that you have read the information about how important the rainforest is to the world, you need to plan an information poster or leaflet to let everyone know about it! make notes on your plan so that you know what to include when you write it tomorrow!

Think about:• what is the most important information to include?

How you will lay your information out on your page ­ • will you have fact boxes that make the information easy for your reader to understand?• Will you include images to catch your reader's attention?• Will you have an eye­catching heading to draw your reader in?• Could you find out about some endangered animals to add to your poster/leaflet?

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Friday 17th July 2020To use homophones correctly in a sentence.

Below are a list of homophones. They sound the same but are spelled differently. Choose the correct spelling for the sentence.

1. Sanjeev's favourite cereal/serial is Coco Pops.

2. The walk to the shop from the farm was farther/father than they thought.

3. When Paul looked at the shape of his birthday present, he guessed/guest that it was a bicycle.

4. In the mourning/morning, Dev always has a shower straight away. 5. 'Whose/Who's coat is this?' The teacher asked her pupils.

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Friday 17th July 2020To present information

Today you need to use the plan you made yesterday to create a poster to inform your reader of the different ways plants get to the sunlight.

For your writing to be successful you need: • an attractive border;• an eye­catching title;• subtitles ­ to make the information easy to read;• illustrations with labels to show your reader the information.

You might choose to show your information in a different way ­ a brochure or a booklet or an information leaflet!

It is up to you!

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