crawls wrinkled azure crooked corrugated clasps contorted Focus words Year 5 Unit 10 © Rising Stars UK Ltd 2018
crooked warped twisted gnarled clasps grasps seizes grapples wrinkled Synonyms crooked warped twisted gnarled clasps grasps seizes grapples wrinkled furrowed crumpled crawls creeps squirms inches Year 5 Unit 10 © Rising Stars UK Ltd 2018
Definitions crawls moves slowly – perhaps along the surface wrinkled lines or folds in something crooked bent or twisted out of shape clasps grabs something tightly azure bright blue – the colour of the sky on a cloudless day corrugated made of folds or rings contorted twisted out of shape Year 5 Unit 10 © Rising Stars UK Ltd 2018
The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Year 5 Unit 10 © Rising Stars UK Ltd 2018
He __________ the crag with __________ hands; Fill the gaps with words from your word webs. Does the meaning of the poem change? He __________ the crag with __________ hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the __________ world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him __________; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Year 5 Unit 10 © Rising Stars UK Ltd 2018