Year 3 English Summer Term 2 Week 6

Task 1 To review

Complete a book review about The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry.

Task 2 To respond to our text with a sequel

We’ve reached the end of our story but what happens next? Write the sequel to The Great Kapok Tree from the man’s point of view.

What is he thinking as he leaves the rainforest? How does his life change?

Task 3 To answer questions about a text

People of the Rainforest

We stumbled on them much by chance – spotting a young girl, no older than four, through the clearing in the trees. She merely wore a skirt made from reeds and leaves, and a simple cloth headband to keep the hair from her eyes. We watched as she toddled towards the river – unsteady on her feet, but far steadier than we were. It was clear that she knew this rainforest well.

In the river, stood a man with a bow and arrow made from forest vines. He stood, knee-high in the flowing torrents, aiming towards the water as silently as a cheetah stalking its prey. With no hesitation, he let the arrow fly and, from beneath the water, he retrieved a humongous tilapia. He passed it to the little girl, who scurried away amongst the trees. ___________________________________________________________________________________

1. What two things was the girl wearing? 2. Approximately how old was the girl? 3. Why did she need to wear a headband? 4. “He stood knee-high in the flowing torrents”. What do you think torrents means in this

sentence? 5. What do you think a ‘tilapia’ is? Give a reason for your answer. 6. How do you think the girl’s clothing looks compares to the clothing of the explorers? 7. Find and copy a simile. 8. Do you think the man and girl saw the explorers? Explain your answer. 9. Summarise this text in less than 20 words.

Success Criteria

1st person (The man’s point of view)

Descriptive devices: adjectives, adverbs, fronted adverbials, similes

A range of conjunctions Paragraphs

A range of prefixes and suffixes A range of sentence types

Task 4 To spell words with a prefix

Tick the correct prefix for each root word

Root word super- anti- auto- clockwise

star hero

mobile bacterial

pilot market septic correct

biography human freeze social nova cue

body Write your own sentences using the super-, anti- and auto- words. Task 5 To revise Fix the errors in the text below. Gary new that he need to find an vantage – a place which wood give him a good view of the hole rainforest. Without that, a tiny frog like him would never bee able too find them. But where could he go! he was surrounding by acres of thick, dense vegetation. No cliffs. No waterfalls. suddently, he had an idea. He stretched out his toes as wide as they would go and jumpt towards the nearest tree trunk? Clinging on, he climbed higher and higher until he finally reached the canopy. He standed atop the wide-reaching branchs, looking towards the horizon in search of to tiny, blue specks, which lookt just like him. Just as he had giving up hope, an auburn orangutan swung by, carrying too sticky blue lumps on her back.

Year 3 Spellings – 6.7.20 - 10.7.20 Words ending with a /cher/ sound spelt with ‘ture’

Look, say and cover.

Write and check Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Creature

Picture

Nature

Furniture

Capture

Culture

Moisture

Future

Gesture

Structure

Next steps Define the words and discuss the spelling

pattern.

Use the words in a sentence.

Bingo! Choose 6 words. Ask a grown up to read out the definition or the word in a sentence. How quickly can you mark off all 6 words and shout “BINGO!”?

Dictation. Ask a grown up to read some sentences using some of our spelling

words. Write down the sentences. Spell and

punctuate the sentences correctly.

Spelling test.

Good luck!