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Flexible Blocks
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Year 5 English Homework
For many parents, homework is the only picture they get of what their child does at school. For this reason, Hamilton have put a great deal of effort into writing suitable, fun and home-friendly activities for children and parents to share together. Children will benefit and so will parents and teachers!
The activities rehearse core literacy skills that you may wish children to practise or keep on the boil. Read our English homework blog for more advice about using them.
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Understand that some words are shortened to acronyms for everyday use. Decipher a series of acronyms, some obvious and some not!
Look at ways advertisers use persuasive language and layout to persuade us to part with our money. Choose an advert and make some notes.
Write a persuasive argument for or against homework! Collect the views of family members of friends - do they change the children's opinion?
Understand idioms and look at the meaning of some common idioms. Write down another idiom and illustrate its literal meaning.
Look at some letters written to newspapers and begin to understand their purpose. Write their own letter to a newspaper.
See the world through the eyes of another! Write a short description of a funny incident that has happened in their family from another point of view.
Identify and use prepositions. Write a list of places they looked to find a hidden object at home.
Identify patterns in a performance poem. Write own verse using the same structure and theme.
Practise using connectives and pronouns to extend sentences into longer complex sentences.
Use independent spelling strategies to spell some unfamiliar and challenging words and see how many points they can earn.
Identify words that have origins in other countries by matching words to the country and the definition.