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Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20
Year 6 English Week 7In this week’s English there are four lessons that build up to and prepare for a piece of work on the final day of the week.In school we code the levels of work for different children as follows:Green = what is expected of all children. Some children may need support to meet this statementAmber = many children will also be able to achieve this statementRed = some children will challenge themselves to achieve this tooPurple = an extension to the required level of work (Not all lessons will have each of these levels.)Please get in touch with any questions and to share work if you would like to. Twitter: @HBMissDean
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Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20
Please make sure you read this section carefully!This week you are going to write a persuasive letter to Boris Johnson, urging him to help prevent deforestation in South America. When writing a persuasive letter, it’s important to include persuasive language and vocabulary. P is for personal tone - use language that includes the reader
and makes them feel involved. E is for emotive language - use words that have a strong
emotional impact on the reader. R is for rhetorical questions - use questions to make the
reader think about your viewpoint. S is for say again - repeat key points to reinforce your most
important ideas. U is for undermine opposing arguments - show that you
recognise an opposing viewpoint and then undermine that argument.
A is for anecdotes - use a short, interesting story from real life. D is for direct address - use personal pronouns, like ‘you’ and
‘your’, to involve your reader. E is for exaggeration - use exaggeration to make your point
stronger.Check out the following video to give you some tips:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zv7fqp3/articles/zr8cmfrAt the end of the week, you will write your own persuasive letter to Boris Johnson. Today, you will look at what a good one looks like and identify the key features. On Tuesday, you will revise modal verbs. On Wednesday, you will research and find key information about how deforestation affects the planet. On Thursday, you will use your research information to plan your persuasive letter. Finally, on Friday, you will write your persuasive letter urging Boris Johnson to protect the rainforests situated in South America.
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20
Have a look at the following example of a persuasive letter. What features can you identify that are important? Use a highlighter or underline to annotate (write some notes) and see if you found the same features as me (mine is on the next page).
ExampleHartley Brook Primary Academy
Hartley Brook Road
Sheffield S5 0JF
5th July 202010 Downing StreetWestminster LondonSW1A 2AADear Prime Minster,I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the devastating impact deforestation is having on our planet. As a great Prime Minister, I know you are the one who can help preserve our planet for future generations. The depletion of the forest does not just affect the Americas; it affects the world.Every day, thousands of species and acres of forest are destroyed because of deforestation. It is estimated that 25% of all our modern medicines come from plants growing in the rainforest. Whilst only 1% of plant species have been studied, deforestation is threatening the prospect of discovering species that may unlock the cure to many medical mysteries. Would you throw away the cure to cancer?
MONDAY 13th July 2020 LO To understand what features make an effective persuasive letter.Success Criteria:
I can answer questions and identify features to put in a checklistI can write a paragraph to explain what features make an effective persuasive letter.I can discuss the purpose of some of the features.
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20Whilst acres of forests are reduced each year, our modern world continues to grow rapidly, contributing to dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere. Rainforests have been known as the “lungs of the world” due to their contribution in providing about 20% of the world’s oxygen. Like humans, the planet cannot breathe without its lungs. Surely you must be aware of this devastation? Rainforests are very rich in natural resources, but they are also very fragile. For this reason, indigenous people have become instinctive conservationists. The rainforest lifestyle may sound like a kind of paradise, a Garden of Eden for the lucky few who live there. It certainly has its advantages. However, life is far from perfect. One in every two children born in the rainforest die before their second birthday. It is estimated that the Amazon rainforest supported about six million tribal people before 1500AD. By 2000, there were less than 250,000 of them left. Scientists predict that this number will continue to decrease if deforestation continues at its current rate.Saving the rainforests is, and will probably continue to be, an extremely difficult challenge. It is estimated that every minute, 80 football pitches of rainforest are destroyed! Each day, at least one species of animal or plant becomes extinct! There is little hope of preserving all the remaining rainforests exactly as they are today. The destruction of the rainforest cannot be allowed to continue at the present rate. All tree felling cannot be stopped immediately, but any further destruction of rainforests must take place in a more planned way, with greater restrictions on logging companies. Fatal diseases are being spread, people and animals are being killed and if this does not stop immediately, there will be global implications. Most Respectfully,Mr V Worried
Features
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20Hartley Brook Primary Academy
Hartley Brook Road
Sheffield S5 0JF
5th July 202010 Downing StreetWestminster LondonSW1A 2AA
Dear Prime Minster,I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the devastating impact deforestation is having on our planet. As a great Prime Minister, I know you are the one who can help preserve our planet for future generations. The depletion of the forest does not just affect the Americas; it affects the world.Every day, thousands of species and acres of forest are destroyed because of deforestation. It is estimated that 25% of all our modern medicines come from plants growing in the rainforest. Whilst only 1% of plant species have been studied, deforestation is threatening the prospect of discovering species that may unlock the cure to many medical mysteries. Would you throw away the cure to cancer?
Whilst acres of forests are reduced each year, our modern world continues to grow rapidly, contributing to dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere. Rainforests have been known as the “lungs of the world” due to their contribution in providing about 20% of the world’s oxygen. Like humans, the planet cannot breathe without its lungs. Surely you must be aware of this devastation?
Rainforests are very rich in natural resources, but they are also very fragile. For this reason, indigenous people have become instinctive conservationists. The rainforest lifestyle may sound like a kind of paradise, a Garden of Eden for the lucky few who live there. It certainly has its advantages. However, life is far from perfect. One in every two children born in the rainforest will die before their second birthday. It is estimated that the Amazon rainforest supported about six million tribal people before 1500AD. By 2000,
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20there were less than 250,000 of them left. Scientists predict that this number will continue to decrease if deforestation continues at its current rate.Saving the rainforests is, and will probably continue to be, an extremely difficult challenge. It is estimated that every minute, 80 football pitches of rainforest are destroyed! Each day, at least one species of animal or plant becomes extinct! There is little hope of preserving all the remaining rainforests exactly as they are today. The destruction of the rainforest cannot be allowed to continue at the present rate. All tree felling cannot be stopped immediately, but any further destruction of rainforests must take place in a more planned way, with greater restrictions on logging companies. Fatal diseases are being spread, people and animals are being killed and if this does not stop immediately, there will be global implications. Most Respectfully,Mr V Worried
Features
xxx = Writer’s Address
xxx = Recipient’s address
xxx = introduction – attention grabbing and introduces what the letter is about
xxx = final paragraph – bring it up to date and repeats important points.
xxx = Formal language
xxx = facts, dates, key information
xxx = Technical vocabulary
xxx = modal verbs
xxx = exaggeration - use exaggeration to make your point stronger.xxx = rhetorical questions - use questions to make the reader think about your viewpoint.xxx = flattery
xxx = direct address - use personal pronouns, like ‘you’ and ‘your’, to involve your reader.
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20Now use what you have found to make a checklist of features to use later in the week for your own persuasive letter. Choose around five things that you consider to be the most important in making your persuasive letter effective.
Features
Now write a paragraph to explain why the features make the persuasive letter effective. Can you include the purpose of the features?
TUESDAY 14 th July 2020 LO To be able to use modal verbs for effectSuccess Criteria:
I can identify modal verbs in a sentenceI can add a suitable modal verb to a sentence I can apply my understanding of modal verbsI can explain the use of a modal verb
Identify
Underline the modal verbs in each of the sentences below. Can you order the degree of certainity or possibility?
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Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20Certainty Possibility
1) We must act now if we want to preserve the planet!
2) Deforestation should be made illegal.
3) If people work together, we could save the planet.
4) Many unique species may now be extinct.
5) We can already see the effects of deforestation taking place.
6) You and other powerful leaders should be working together to stop deforestation.
7) There will be global implications.
8) Many species might already be extinct.
Controlled practice
Add a suitable modal verb into the sentences to show how certain or possible something is.
will can shall may mustwould could should might ought
You may use a modal verb more than once.
1) Many endangered species _________________ become extinct by 2030.
2) The Amazon Rainforest ______________________ be protected.
3) Without the mass vegetation in the rainforest, flooding ______________ increase.
4) Everybody ________________ be working together to stop deforestation.
5) Many world leaders _____________________ help prevent deforestation.
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.206) Animals ___________________ be allowed to live peacefully in their habitat.
Apply
In the advert below, circle all of the modal verbs you can find.
Decide if you’re going to make the advert more persuasive or less persuasive.
Explore swapping the modal verbs for the ones in the table above. You may also add a few to create the impact that you want. Then, rewrite the advert with the new modal verbs.
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Challenge
How does replacing the modal verb change the meaning of the sentence?
Sentence Meaning Boris Johnson may prevent deforestation.Boris Johnson should prevent deforestation.Boris Johnson shall prevent deforestation.Boris Johnson must prevent deforestation.
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20
WEDNESDAY 15 th July 2020 LO To research and find key information about the impact deforestation has on the planet.Success Criteria:
I can find information for the introductionI can select the key information I want to include I can find out further details to include (scientific facts and data)I can include modal verbs
Over to you today! Find out key details about how deforestation is affecting our planet every day. Search for how deforestation affects animals, land, communities and the world. The more you understand about what is happening, the more persuasive you will be!
Use the links below to help you research
http://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/rainforests/introduction#sectionhttp://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/rainforests/why-are-rainforests-important#sectionhttp://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/rainforests/what-are-the-threats-to-the-rainforests#sectionhttps://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/geography/physical-geography/amazon-facts/https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/amazonrainforest.html
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20
What is deforestation?
Who/what is affected by deforestation?
Where is deforestation taking place?
Which animals are affected?
How are farmers affected?
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Increased flooding
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What are the effects on Global Warming?
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Global impact
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Extra details (scientific facts)
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Technical vocabulary
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Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20
Today, you are going to plan the persuasive letter that you will write to Boris Johnson tomorrow. Use yesterday’s research from the websites to include factual information.
Features Notes
IntroductionIntroduce what you want to say
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Fact Sheet – RainforestsWords that are highlighted in yellow are key vocabulary. Use as much
key vocabulary as you can. Tick them off as you use them.
Rainforest land is required for grazing land, to feed cattle, for beef (used for beef burgers!)
More land is needed when it loses its nutrients from over-grazing. Rice, wheat and corn consumption is set to increase by 40% by
2020, so more land is needed to grow food. Need for wood, worldwide, will double by 2020 Rainforests are good source of hardwoods: teak, mahogany,
rosewood This wood is often used for coffins Wood from rainforests needed by the west as they have already
depleted their own wood source Money from logging helps to pay off National debt Wood is also needed to make charcoal to power industrial plants Rainforest creatures need to be hunted to satisfy Westerners’
desire for animal skins – ocelot, jaguars and caiman Rainforests also cleared for mining Cropland for bio fuels – instead of petrol and to grow palms for
palm oil
Connectives – tick them off as you use themalthough however therefore actually so because while like nevertheless despite m if as perhaps
when after admittedly basically obviously presumably clearly personally in general above all
THURSDAY 16 th July 2020 LO To plan a persuasive letter.Success Criteria:
I can write in note form and include details from yesterday’s researchI can include key facts, modal verbs, exaggeration, rhetorical questions, interesting sentence startersI can include opposing arguments
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20Eg
I’m writing to you about………….
If we don’t act now……..
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Paragraph 1
Point
Evidence
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Point
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FlatteryEg
The nation knows that you are a great Prime Minister and that you are doing everything in your power to ensure that Britain plays its part in protecting our forests.
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Explain your reasonsI am sure that you have noticed the global implications of
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Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20deforestation. However, we will need to act now if we going to preserve our beautiful planet. Encouraging other world leaders to work together could be the first steps in preventing the depletion of our great forests.
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EmotionsI know that if you agreed to this, the next generation would remember you as the prime Minster who tried to save our planet!
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Exaggeration
It will be too late to do anything if we do not act now!
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Rhetorical Questions
Surely you must be aware of the devastation?Will you ignore this forever?
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Concluding Sentences. Must be detailed. Remind the reader of the important points. Bring your letter to a close
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Today, you are going to write your persuasive letter to Boris Johnson explaining why he should try to help preserve the Amazon Rainforest. Start by writing out your checklist so that you have something to tick at the end to check you’ve included everything that you thought would make
FRIDAY 17 th July 2020 LO To write a persuasive letter.Success Criteria:
I can use my plan to write a persuasive letter.I can re-read and edit my writingI can include modal verbs.I can discuss or write a paragraph to explain what features have made my writing effective.
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20your writing effective. Once you have finished writing your letter, you could even send it to Boris Johnson.
Prime Minister’s address:
10 Downing StreetWestminster LondonSW1A 2AA
On the next page, you will find two word mats with vocabulary that you might want to magpie.
Please share your writing with your teacher by email, Twitter or the blog! It would be great to see some of your writing!
Persuasive strategy definitionsYour main point – the reason for your argument – the nitty gritty.
The rainforests are vanishing. This is bad because...
Using logic, numbers and facts to support your argument – refer to your research
Use your fact sheet
Appeal to your readers’ emotions – tug on their heart strings – show some photos
Talk about rare and endangered species – talk about diseases that owe their cures to the rainforest
Make yourself seem trustworthy and believable – be persuasive – use appropriate vocabulary
Don’t threaten or abuse your readers
Build a sense of urgency for your case – worry your readers – pressure them
Talk about time frames – why does something need to be done NOW?
Use studies and others’ research to convince your readers – graphs and tables etc.
Use the internet, books and papers.Say according to... In a study carried out by...
Persuasive language and vocabularyTick off each of these sentence starters/
phrases as you use them.
The question of whether or not... It is clear that...
It is obvious that...There can be no doubt that...
There is no doubt that...
Year 6 Week 16 - Writing & SPaG 13.07.20 – 17.07.20If...then...
When...then... If we continue to...then......is necessary because...
It is important to realise that...There are many reasons why...
Imagine... Try to put yourself in... position...
The arguments for...are compelling because...There are thought to be...
...rely on...for... ...provides...for...
Many people agree that... Many people believe...
It is generally believed to be that case that...The truth is... The fact is... Actually...
In conclusion... At the end of the day...
So... therefore...
Fact Sheet – RainforestsWords that are highlighted in yellow are key vocabulary. Use as much
key vocabulary as you can. Tick them off as you use them.
Rainforest land is required for grazing land, to feed cattle, for beef (used for beef burgers!)
More land is needed when it loses its nutrients from over-grazing. Rice, wheat and corn consumption is set to increase by 40% by
2020, so more land is needed to grow food. Need for wood, worldwide, will double by 2020 Rainforests are good source of hardwoods: teak, mahogany,
rosewood This wood is often used for coffins Wood from rainforests needed by the west as they have already
depleted their own wood source Money from logging helps to pay off National debt Wood is also needed to make charcoal to power industrial plants Rainforest creatures need to be hunted to satisfy Westerners’