Year 3

English

Week beginning 29th June

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This booklet has been designed to last for the next 2 weeks

Please don't feel that you need to complete all the activities with your child, just choose the ones that fit in best with your family situation.

There are no worksheets but your child will need an exercise book, or some paper to work on.

Please email us if you need any support and don't forget to send us photogrpahs of any completed work (which may be shared on our website).

Enjoy!

The Year 3 Team

Cover Analysis

• What do you think the story will be about?

• Who do you think the main character is?

• Do you think there will be other characters in this

book? Humans or animals?

• The cover has very bright colours and cartoon

pictures, how does it make you feel?

• We know that most stories have a problem that

needs to be fixed, what could the problem be in

this story?

• Which country do you think this story is set in?

What makes you think that?

• Do you think there will be a message in this story,

like the last books we shared?

• What could the message be?

• The title sounds funny, what do you think it

means?

• What other things does the cover make you

'wonder' about?

Now click the link,

listen to the story

and enjoy!

Look carefully at the front

cover of this book and

think about the following

questions:

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Reading ComprehensionRead questions carefully and then

write your answers in your exercise book.

1. Where does this story take place?

2. What had the farmer's wife started to watch?

3. What did the chickens make and why did they

make it?

4. Name two other animals on the farm that didn't

like their food.

5. What did the chickens take from the garden?

6. Who were inspired by the chickens?

7. How did the rooster distract the farmer for

the pigs?

8. Who decorated the barn?

9.What did the bull practise?

10 Which type of cookery book did the rooster

borrow?

Think about thesequestion words -

who, what, where, when, why, how

Create and write 5 new questions, and answers, from the story.

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Inference Questions

Read each question carefully

and write your answer in

your exercise book.

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Vocabulary

certain

inspired

mumble

overwhelmedenticing

recipe

rumblingsspicy

1. Influenced, moved or guided by example.

2. General talk or opinions that show unhappiness.

3. To be overpowered or overcome by something.

4. Known for sure.

5. Tempting or attractive.

6. A set of instructions for preparing food.

7. Flavoured with or smelling like a spice.

8. To say something quietly making it hardfor others to hear.

The following words are all taken from the text.

Match the word to its definition and then draw a

picture to show your understanding.

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Read the following statements from the text and

decide if they are 'facts' or 'opinions'.

Record your ideas in your

exercise book. You could

use a table, like the one

opposite, to help.

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Sentence Editing

Read each sentence then write it in your exercise book, punctuating correctly.

1. i want to visit nuthatcher farm

2.the story was about chickens ducks and pigs

3. mrs nuthatcher is the farmers wife

4 farmer nuthatchers birthday is may 3 1990

You should have used :

Capital letters.Commas

Apostrophes

Full stops

Can you write a sentence,

linked to the story,

with a question mark?

The spotlight word is: ENCOURAGEMENT

Making words

How many words can you make, using only the letters in the spotlight word ?

Here are a few to get you started:

1. ten2. meet3. rage

Now try and write a sentence including

the spotlight word.

Remember to punctuate correctly.

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The following words are taken from this week's

text. In your exercise book write at least one synonym for each word.

• Pilfered

• Perched

• Selected

• Plodded

• Delicious

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Wordsearch

13 words from our story are hidden in this wordsearch. Can you find them all?

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Create an 8 frame comic strip of the story 'Chicks and Salsa'

You must use 8 frames, no more and no less, so you will need to think very carefully and make sure you include all the important information.

A rough plan would be a good start!

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There is lots of alliteration in this week's text:

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We are going to write our own poems using lists and alliteration.

First make a list of 10 foods you love to eat.

Curry olivesBananas spinachPizza chocolateGrapes chipsCheese spaghetti

Now see how many describing words you can think of that have the same initial letters.

Slippy, slurpy, gorgeous, chewy, chunky, .

Put it all together and you have a poem!

Now you have a go, make sure you illustrate your poem and don't forget to send us a picture of your finished creation.

5 Things I love to eat

Chunky, chewable, cheddar cheeseSlippy, slurpy, surprising spaghettiBeautiful bendy bold bananasCreamy colourful creative curryPeppery pungent perfect pizza

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Story plan

The chickens were tired of chicken feed.

They crept into the

garden, where they took tomatoesand uprooted onions.

The ducks were tired of fish.

They dipped into the garden, where they selected cilantro and gathered garlic.

The pigswere tired of slop

Choose an animal,what is it tired of eating?

You are going to create a new character for the story!

They

made salsa.

Nobody knew where they got

the chips.

They made

guacamole.Nobody knew where they got the

avocados.

They plodded into the garden, where they borrowed beans and chopped chilies

They

made nachos.

Nobodyknew

where they got the cheese sauce.

How did they walk into the garden and what did they take?

What did they make?

Which additional food could they have?

Think about the following questions and make some notes in your exercise book.

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Very soon, there were mumblings at the duckpond of Nuthatcher farm.Inspired by the chickens, the ducks decided they were tired of fish.With rooster's encouragement, they dipped into the garden, where they selected cilantro and gathered garlic.That night the ducks ate guacamole – though nobody was quite certain where they got the avocados.

Use the text above, from this week's story, and adapt it to create your own addition for the book.

Try to include some adventurous vocabulary and for an extra challenge.........…...............alliteration !

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The author of this week's book is

Aaron Reynolds.

He has written lots of books here are some of my favourites:

You can find out all about Aaron on his

website

Your final task is to write a letter to Aaron – there is a template on the next page to help you.

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