Primary 7 Learning Grid 2 Suggested Learning Activities: Week Beginning 18.01.21 LITERACY AND ENGLISH Listening and Talking LI: To identify and discuss the main ideas of a text. LI: To listen to and identify main areas of a spoken text LI: To discuss current events LI: To listen and discuss a novel Watch Newsround daily. You can watch this online or on the CBBC channel Have a go at the quiz of the week on the Newsround website on Friday. Watch the Espresso Newsbite weekly news (usually updated every Thursday) and take the quiz at the end to see how well you remember the facts given. Read this week’s edition of First News (Looking Ahead to 2021) on your own or with someone at home. Choose and share 2 or more stories with someone in your family. What do they think about them? Listen to chapters 12 and 13 of our class novel ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ and then take the quiz on Teams Reading LI: To select and read texts I enjoy LI: To identify the main ideas and features of non-fiction text LI: To improve reading comprehension skills. LI: To discuss current events Continue to read a minimum of 30 minutes per day. Everyone is expected to complete at least 1 AR quiz in the next 3 weeks. Read 2 Accelerated Read Articles of your choice. Take the quiz when you have finished! Read the information about Oceans of the World and complete the questions in your jotter. Check your answers when you have finished. Read the edition of First News posted on the website and on Teams. Try to find 2 interesting stories to share with someone at home. Writing LI: I can write a report containing key facts. LI: I understand the key features of writing a diary. LI: I can write a diary entry including the key features. LI: To apply spelling rules and strategies. Click this link to find out about the Evacuation of Children in WW2 Read the information and watch the short video at the end. You might want to do your own research too. Task: Write a report explaining 1.When the evacuations took place 2. Why they happened 3. Where the children were sent to 4. How it was organised 5. Who helped the children when they arrived. 6. What it was like for the evacuees You can add this to your WW2 folder or do it in your jotter. Watch this lesson on Identifying the features of a diary It lasts about 20 minutes. Listen carefully to the information and follow the instructions. Task: Copy the mind map of the main features of a diary into your jotter. You can pause the lesson whilst you do this. Now combine the information you gathered about evacuees and what you learned about the key features of a diary. Task: Imagine you were an evacuee. Write a diary entry for the day you were evacuated. Start from arriving at the train station and finish with arriving at the home of your host family. Look at the mind map from the previous activity and check that you have included all the listed features. This week’s spelling pattern is: ‘-al endings’. Make sure you write your words out at least 3 times in your jotter. Complete the Nelson Spelling pages in your jotter and then go to Teams and complete and hand in the assignment. Ask someone to test you on your words at the end of the week.
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