Starter: To start today’s lesson we are going to revise the different nouns from last week. Click on the Wordwall link below and sort the words into the correct groups!

I have purposefully not given the proper nouns a capital letter so you will have to think a little harder!

https://wordwall.net/play/2804/124/378

On the next page, you will see a picture taken from a story. I would like you to have a good look at the picture and think about what is happening, what happened before the picture was taken and what you think might happen next? Also, think about any other questions you have about the picture. Once you have had a look at the picture, read the story starter on the next page and answer the mini SPaG/reading tasks linked with the picture!

The Troll!

Story starter!

Thump! He slammed his enormous, grass-covered foot into the middle of the road, sending shockwaves of dust in all directions. With a loud grunt, the troll wrenched the entire, fully tiled roof off a nearby holiday home, with the owners peering helplessly and frightened out of the downstairs windows. He didn’t mean any harm, but he just couldn’t help himself…

Task 1 – Vocabulary explorers Your first task is to look up the definitions of any words you are unsure of in the short text. Then, I would like you to think of as many synonyms as you can for the words below that underlined and taken from the text. Enormous: Loud: Wrenched: Peering: Frightened:

Synonym: A word or phrase that means the same

e.g shut and close.

Task 2 - Question time! 1. What do you think the troll is thinking?

2. Do you think he is a mean or a kind troll? Why?

3. What are the people doing when they have seen the

troll?

4. Would you try to catch him or talk to him?

5. Where do you think the troll has come from?

6. What do you think the rope around the troll’s waist is for?

Task 3 – Sentence challenge! Can you spot the 5 mistakes in this sentence and then write it out correctly, editing the errors made?

the roof ov the yellow hose wos ripped off by the enormous troll

Task 4 - Perfect Picture! Where do you think the troll lives? Can you draw what you imagine the troll’s home looks like? You may want to label it!

Extension: These sentence are ‘boring’ sentences can you think of ways to improve them to make them ‘wow’ sentences?

1. The troll put his hand on the house.

2. He had a nose and teeth.

3. He was covered in grass.

If you have time at the end of this lesson spend some time practising your spellings using look, say, cover, write, check or ask someone else to test you on them.

This is the Year 3 and 4 spelling list. Children should be able to spell these by the end of Year 4. You could do your own spelling test with some of these or maybe create a game with them to help you learn them. Your weekly spellings may include some of these.

I will put a set of spellings up each week that you can learn at home. It will have the previous weeks spellings and the next weeks spellings (you only get 5 new ones each week, recapping the 5 from the previous week). Spend about 10 minutes at the beginning/end of every SPAG lesson to learn this weeks spelling using look, say, cover, write and check. If you are able to, ask someone to test you on these spellings at home.

This weeks spellings

unzip

unacceptable

unwell

unable

unpack

unfasten

unbeatable

uncovered

uneven

unload

New spellings Words with the prefix ‘un’.

Prefix ‘un’ meaning not or to do the opposite.