ANY BOOKLISTS HERE ARE FOR THE OLDER WEEKLY PLANS – they are NOT for the new Flexible Blocks which have their own booklists accessible here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/flexible-blocks-booklists/
Flexible Blocks
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Year 6 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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Write advertisements for a load of old rubbish! Use excellent persuasive language – pull out all the stops!
Study the master of descriptive writing – Dylan Thomas! Children write their own descriptions of their hometown.
What happened on the way to the shops…? Write anecdotes in a humorous and imaginative style.
Look at different genres of book and explain why one of these is a favourite.
Start with a simple sentence and extend it by adding clauses. Use different connecting words.
Become Prime Minister for five minutes and draft a new law of your choosing. Use official formal language.
Starting with a statement describing how we feel, we attempt to express this in as many different ways as possible using synonymous phrases.
Look at ‘textese’. Rewrite text messages in the most formal style possible – as if writing to the queen!
Produce a piece of persuasive writing that encourages people to see a familiar dispute from YOUR point of view!
Given a choice of four classic poems, pick one and learn part of it off by heart. Canvass opinions as to the best poem!