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English

Reading

 

Read chapter 5 and 6, then answer the following questions:

 

1.What is Hiccup’s mother called?

 

2.What has Hiccup got to do by Thor’sday Thursday?

 

3.What happened when Old Wrinkly accused Hiccup of talking to dragons?

Cressida reads How to Train Your Dragon: Chapters 5 and 6

Vocabulary

 

Use chapter 5 to think about the vocabulary used in the book and answer the following questions:

 

1.What does the word ‘shovelling’ suggest about Stoick the Vast at breakfast time?

 

2.Why does the author describe the sea as being ‘as flat as glass’ p.75?

 

3.Find a word on p.80 that means the same as ‘other’.

Grammar

 

Watch the BBC bitesize video to remind you what adverbs are and how to use them - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zgsgxfr then complete the activities:

 

 

 

Writing

 

Now that you know the features of instructions, can you put these instructions in order?

They are all jumbled up!

 

Once you have done this, can you highlight some of the features you learnt about last week?

 

Lastly, could you act out or use talk for writing to help you remember the instructions?

 

How to trap a dragon:

Spelling

 

straight

strange

strength

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

position

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Here is an example of me using pyramid writing to learn the spellings: