TAKE OFF!! Moving from Year 6 to Year 7 in English Be ready to share your work in your English lessons.

TRANSITION ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS HOLIDAYS AND PROGRESS TRANSITION ACTIVITIES FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS Task 1 Choose a book you have read and then choose 3 activities from the Reading Journal activity list Task 2 Write a diary entry describing something really exciting you have done in your summer holidays – this can be real or imagined. Task 3 Write a description of a beach Task 4 Spellings – how many can you spell? How many can you learn? Task 5 Grammar – what do you know?

This can be real or imagined. A diary! – Task 2 Write a diary entry describing a really exciting day you have had in your summer holiday. This can be real or imagined. (see diary writing mat document to help with your organisation)

Diary example: Today has been the worst day of my holiday Diary example: Today has been the worst day of my holiday! The rain has never stopped! I haven’t had one chance to wear my new shorts. I’m really hoping that tomorrow brings sunshine and a chance to go to the beach! But you never guess what…………

A description of a beach! Task 3 Write a descriptive piece of writing, describing a beach. You must try and use as many ambitious words as you can. 3. This is not a story. Challenge. Use a metaphor. Use a simile. Use alliteration. Use a range of punctuation effectively. Use a range of sentences effectively.

Description – example: The sun beat down, as hot as a flame. The sand was a silky sheet of gold. Children were whooping and shouting in the distance, hopping around like crazy insects. The sea slurped and slopped at the cliffs, wearing them away with every lick of its tongue. This was heaven!

Produce and present a description using holiday photos. Well done ! Challenge….. Produce and present a description using holiday photos.

How many of these words can you spell? potential essential initial experiment excellent equivalent rough tough enough fought 11. taught 12. caught 13. fraught 14. referring 15. suffering 16. through 17. thorough 18. borough 19. Sufficient 20. ancient

Spellings – how many can you spell? conscious precious suspicious delicious vicious spacious gracious ferocious malicious tenacious ambitious cautious infectious nutritious pretentious fictitious superstitious fractious vexatious anxious

Homophones quick fire 5. can you choose the right homophone? Weather/Whether It is sunny…. Hear/Here Are you …. Yet? 3. Which/witch ….. One of you ate my sandwich? 4. to/two/too Let’s go .. The shop. 5. to/two/too I like chocolate … Weather Here Which To too

Adventurous word classes 1. A noun is the name of a place, person or object. E.G. ________________________ ____________________________ 2. An adjective is a describing word. It describes the noun. E.G. _______________________ ___________________________ 3. A verb is a doing word. It describes an action. 4. What do you think an adverb is? Can you give examples? 5. Write a sentence with all 4 word classes in. Highlight the words and state which word class they belong to.