Hi Year 5, I am really missing our reading lessons and our cosy reading! I have just finished the book Explorer by Katherine Rundell, which is all about four children who get lost in the Amazon jungle – I would really recommend this. I’m going to have a go at reading the next instalment of Brightstorm, which is called Darkwhispers. Do you have any book recommendations for me? What books have you been enjoying? Comment below!
I loved these words from the books I’ve been reading:
- supple
- grimacing
- charred
- furrowed
- tendrils
- grudgingly
- brusquely
- convalesce
- indignantly
- recoiled
- inscrutable
- shoal
- Can you define these words?
- Can you find synonyms?
- Can you use then in a sentence?
Reading Comprehension
I have attached a reading comprehension task for you to complete at home. You must read the information (ECO!) and answer the vocabulary questions and the comprehension questions.
I will post the answers next Monday
Hi
I have been reading a lot and I would recommend the book Skellig by David Almond.
Hope you enjoy the book
Lenny
Oh superb recommendation Lenny! Let me know what else you’re reading. You could start a Book Club! Keep up the hard work and take care.
Thank you Miss Ferrara
I would love to start a book club!
Great idea!
I have also been reading the Books:
Harry Potter
Millions by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
My hidden Chimp by Steve Peters and
The Narnia collection
thank you again
Lenny
thank you miss ferrara
I would love to start a book club!
Great idea!
I have also been reading the Books:
harrry potter
Millions by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
My hidden Chimp by Steve Peters and
The Narnia collection
thank you again
lenny
Lenny, you’ve been so busy! Right, Book club it is! I’ms sure Miss Andrew will help out with the recommended reading list and some discussion questions.
Book Club with a hot chocolate and a book – it’s going to be great!
thank you miss Ferrara
I like the idia off Hot Chocolate
I think we could read a Tom Gates or Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Great i would love to join! When is it? thanks
Cassie
Hi Lenny, what a brilliant idea! I’m so glad that you’ve been reading so many books the past couple of weeks – it’s so nice to delve deep into a great story. I am going to start reading some Harry Potter books too, so watch this space for some book club questions!
I will defently watch this space for some Questions
I hope you enjoy the Harry Potter books
Oh, i love that book i would definitely recommend it!
Great recommendation, Lenny! Year 6 read some of Skellig in the Autumn term. It’s a book that really makes you think. It has some interesting messages:-)
Miss Lee
I have read Percy Jackson and the last Olympian for the third time this week, I really enjoy them. The whole set is great i love the book so much they are written by Rick Riordan – they are adventure stories based on Greek myths in modern life. The main characters are Percy, Annabeth and Grover who show up in every book. My favourite character is Bianca and Thiala because they are very adventurous and brave.
I looked up tendrils (noun)
1: a long, thin, leafless twining stem or extension with which some climbing plants attach themselves to a support.
2: something similarly long, thin, and twining, such as a lock of hair.
synonym:twine
Great work Cassie! I love an adventurous and brave character. Keep up the good work!
That’s brilliant Cassie, I might have to pop to Y5’s bookshelf and take a Percy Jackson book to read as they sound great! Do you have any words for me to find Cassie?
I have got marred and forged for you.
I found furrowed. It can be a noun
1 a long narrow ditch made in the ground for planting seeds.
2 any narrow groove in a surface.
Or it can be a verb
1. to make furrows in.
Well done Cassie! Keep exploring different vocabulary.
I love those books to Cassie
My favourite character is Mr D, the God of wine
Miss Andrew
I am unable to open the file you sent out
If you are able to send it out on a PDF forat,plese can you
lenny
Hi Lenny, I have attached it as a photo too so that you can now read it – I hope that helps.
thank you
that helps alot
thank you for the school books you have sent me Miss Andrew.
I will use them regularly and also use the problems of the day in the maths books. I will use the TYM sheets in my maths book as-well.
You’re very welcome!
I recommend you to read The Beast of Buckingham Palace.It’s all about a boy who lives in Buckingham Palace and in the cellar there’s a statue that is actually a beast. Also,it is made in the future. I think it’s a really good book. I rate it a ten out of ten.
Sorry it’s Ciona.
That sounds really interesting Ciona, I’ll put it on my ‘to read’ list!
Reading Comprehension
1) Chameleon used a FlyPod to send the email.
2) Animals have been calling earth their home for 65 million year however humans have only been on Earth for a few hundred thousand years and we have made the biggest impact on this planet.
3) Chameleon’s cousin used to see herds of elephants and rhinos drifting across the plains and giraffes getting some breakfast from his tree in the morning.
4) Taz had just returned from Australia so that she could lay her eggs.
V) Chameleon feels depressed about the damage that humans have caused.
I) Chameleon feels furious and annoyed. This is because he was sarcastic, ” I’m sure it’s all worth it, isn’t it?”
S) He says that he can’t find a tree to live in, the elephants and rhinos are poached for their tusks or horns, he sees herds of cows and the forests are burnt to the ground, a habitat destroyed for a internet cable and the corals in the Great Barrier Reef have been bleached so that the oceans are warmer for us humans to swim in.
V) We know that the animals were forced out of their homes because the email says, ” Thousands of animals killed or displaced.” He used the word displaced.
E) I know that this is an informal letter because Chameleon said hi humans, you suck and contractions like “I’ll”.
Reading Comprehension
1) Chameleon used a FlyPod to send the email.
2) Animals have been calling earth their home for 65 million year however humans have only been on Earth for a few hundred thousand years and we have made the biggest impact on this planet.
3) Chameleon’s cousin used to see herds of elephants and rhinos drifting across the plains and giraffes getting some breakfast from his tree in the morning.
4) Taz had just returned from Australia so that she could lay her eggs.
V) Chameleon feels depressed about the damage that humans have caused.
I) Chameleon feels furious and annoyed. This is because he was sarcastic, ” I’m sure it’s all worth it, isn’t it?”
S) He says that he can’t find a tree to live in, the elephants and rhinos are poached for their tusks or horns, he sees herds of cows and the forests are burnt to the ground, a habitat destroyed for a internet cable and the corals in the Great Barrier Reef have been bleached so that the oceans are warmer for us humans to swim in.
V)
Reading Comprehension
1. He used flypod to send the message.
2. Animals have been calling earth home for 65million years.
3. Chameleon’s cousin was used to seeing elephants and rhinos.
4. She came back to Australia to lay eggs.
1. Fed up
2. He feels sad because the coral reef is bleached because the oceans are getting warmer.
3. He has mostly seen things about global warming, trees being cut down for wood, for farmland and so an enormous pipe can be put through the ground, animals being poached for horns.
4. Displaced.
5. He uses lots of informal words like sucks and the start and end are also informal.