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Year 4 Summer Learning Big Write Booklet

Writing Big Write 1: Write a newspaper report Success Criteria:

• Make your headline short and snappy. • In the first sentence sum up what the story is about. • Write your report in the third person and the past tense. • Split your newspaper report up into paragraphs to help the reader clearly

understand the information. • If you use quotes to make your report more interesting, don't forget to use speech

marks! • Use a photo with a caption to give the reader more information. • Fill your newspaper report with both facts and opinions. Facts give the reader all

of the information they need by using the 5 Ws

Fire at Local Corner Shop

You are a reporter for a local newspaper. Your task is to write a newspaper report about the fire.

• In Elephant and Castle, in the early hours of the morning, a fire broke out in a three story building with a parade of shops underneath.

• A gentleman who works in one of the shops, detected smoke and discovered that his shop was on fire.

You may include details about:

• victims trapped in the building • who helped with the fire and rescue • how the residents escaped • what the future holds for residents and shop keepers


Vocabulary/phrases which may be useful:

enter

attracted

alerted

awakened

shouts

noise

roar

crackle

tenants

trapped

consumed by fire

Character Ideas

neighbours

jumped

frantically

mobile phone

fire department

ladders

equipment

foul play

suspect

salvaged

tongues of flames


Your Turn: Write your own newspaper article!


Big Write 2: Diary entry – watch this video clip! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-kent-44664719/wingsuit-flyer-in-snowdon-close-proximity-feat

This pulse-pounding clip follows wingsuit pilot Sam Laming as he becomes the first person to perform a close proximity wingsuit flight down Mount Snowdon in Wales. Sam spent five years training for this extreme stunt,

Place yourself in Sam’s position, write a diary entry on the day of this momentous endeavour.

Below are some ideas to help get you started:

• How do you feel? Talk about your suit, why you wanted to do this? • What’s the weather like? Though it might start off safe and sunny, what

would have happened if a storm approached? • How far can you see? Can you spot towns or villages or are you

surrounded by hills and fields? • Is there any wildlife – rabbits hopping below you, or birds flying in

formation?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-kent-44664719/wingsuit-flyer-in-snowdon-close-proximity-feat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-kent-44664719/wingsuit-flyer-in-snowdon-close-proximity-feat


What a good one looks like - exemplar;

Friday 30th November 2012

Dear Diary,

I had the best day EVER today. I woke up this morning, the sun was shining through the curtains and I could smell breakfast cooking downstairs. I jumped out of my bed, threw on my school clothes and skipped down to the kitchen.

A delicious breakfast of pancakes with syrup was waiting for me on the table and I gobbled it down as quick as a flash. I grabbed my school bag, shouted “Bye!” to my mum and dashed out of the door to school.

When I arrived at school, my teacher handed my homework back to me and a huge grin spread across her face. Guess what? I got 20 out of 20! I couldn’t believe it! We had my best lessons in the morning (Literacy and Geography).

Before I knew it, it was lunchtime. The menu today was my favourite: Spaghetti Bolognaise followed by Chocolate pudding – yum! The afternoon flew by, and we ended the school day with a really fun game of Dodgeball, and we all cheered when my team won (of course).

After school, I came home and was met with the most amazing surprise; my mum told me that we were going out to the cinema and to Pizza Hut for dinner. We had a fantastic time!

I’m sitting on my bed writing this, remembering all the fun things that happened today. I hope tomorrow is just as good!

Ahmed


Big Write 3: Write a narrative using the picture as a prompt.

When writing a story you should think about;

• In the beginning, establish your setting and characters. • In the middle, you could add conflict and a problem to solve. • At the end there could be a dramatic rescue. The ending could be happy or sad.

A setting is where and when a story is set. When writing a story, the setting is really important. Thinking about these things will help your writing.

• Think about what the setting is like, is it day-time or night-time? • How does the setting impact the characters? • Can you picture the setting clearly? This will help you describe it to the reader.

You need to create a character.

• What's their name? • How does the character behave? • What do they like to do? • How old are they? • What do they feel and what are they thinking? • Can you think of some more things you should know about your characters?

Now you are going to plan it!


Beginning…

What happens in the beginning?

Who are your main characters?

Where is your story set?

Build up...

What happens next?

How does your story hint of a

problem/ danger?

Problem..

You Main character/ characters

are in danger..

Enter your villain…(first

impressions of villain) eg; the lion

More build up...

The danger / threat intensifies

Resolutions..

How is this problem sorted out?

Does your MC escape?

Ending..

Does your story end happily?

Or is there a plot twist?

They lived……...


Now, write your narrative!

Year 3 and 4 Statutory Spellings

accident

accidentally

actual

actually

address

answer

appear

arrive

believe

bicycle

breath

breathe

build

busy

business

calendar

caught

centre

century

certain

circle

complete

consider

continue

decide

describe

different

difficult

disappear

early

earth

eight

eighth

enough

exercise

experience

experiment

extreme

famous

favourite

February

forward

forwards

fruit

grammar

group

guard

guide

heard

heart

height

history

imagine

increase

important

interest

island

knowledge

learn

length

library

material

medicine

mention

minute

natural

naughty

notice

occasion

occasionally

often

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

position

possess

possession

possible

potatoes

pressure

probably

promise

purpose

quarter

question

recent

regular

reign

remember

sentence

separate

special

straight

strange

strength

suppose

surprise

therefore

though

although

thought

through

various

weight

woman

women

Common Exception Words

Handwriting Activity Booklet

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