Literacy:
Exploring stories written by Jill Murphy: (15/03/2013)
Listen to story podcast and follow the instructions while writing your own story.


Story Writing Task: (15/03/2013)
Dear Children, plan and write your own story, using the same characters and settings of 'The Worst Witch'.

Dear Children, enjoy your pictures:

Traditional Story Time

Dear Children, as we are re-visiting traditional stories written by different authors, follow the following links to read more traditional stories including "The Frog Prince".

http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/oxfordreadingtree/traditional_tales/ebooks/

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/english/story_telling/index.htm

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/jack-and-the-beanstalk

Writing a Book Review

Dear Children, writing a book review can be lot of fun.  Your task is to write a book review which you have read recently or you can follow the given web-link to read any book.  http://www.magickeys.com/books/

How to write a book review:  Listen to the podcast to learn how to write a book review and what are the points which you need to include while writing.

Example:

Here is a sample that you could use: 


A book that I have just read is _____________(title) by______________(author). The story took place in…

My favourite character was…

A problem the main character had was…


My favourite part of the book was…     
I liked it because…

I like/disliked it when…   because…

An exciting/sad/tense/interesting/important part of the book was…


I would recommend it for…

From reading, the book I learned…

This book made me think about…


I give it ______ marks out of 10

Feedback Time:

Dear Children,
 Its' time to assess your classmates work done in story plan task.Choose any child's work from "Story Plan Task Comment" and give your feedback on the success criteria given for story Podcast.Follow the example given.

Web links for story plan.

Dear Children,
Follow these links to practice some more story plans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/storyplant.shtml
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/story-30008.html

Story Plan Task

Dear Children, listen to the podcast below and complete your task on story planning:

More activities for planning a story

Click on the following link to learn more about how to plan a story:
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/learn_y4/main.asp?lesson_path=year_4/writing_stories/&lesson_file=lesson.swf&language=eng

Plan a Story

Dear Children, As we are learning to plan a story, follow the link below to learn more about story planning:   http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

While planning a story, we need to remember the following:
- Where the story is taking place (Settings)

- Who is in the story (Characters)
- What unexpected things happens (Problem)
- How it gets solved (Solution)

Extended activity for writing character's profile

Dear Children, choose any character from the picture below and describe it.

Writing Character's profile

Dear Children, as we are learning to write character's profile in the classroom, lets describe the character of Horrid Henry.

From the Children

Dear Children, Ms. Nikhat wants to know what do you think about our blog.