This document provides guidance for English and guided reading homework over the course of a week. It includes instructions for daily spelling practice, guided reading activities like predicting what will happen next in a story, and writing exercises such as creating setting descriptions and answering questions about texts. The guidance emphasizes improving and editing work, as well as accessing online resources for supporting learning at home while schools are closed.
2. Day 1 – WALT: use noun,
who/which/where sentences
3. Spelling Shed
Spend 10 minutes on Spelling Shed
practicing the words for this week.
Press the stopwatch to get to Spelling
Shed.
If you’re having any problems accessing
spelling shed please get in contact with
the team:
Year4@ashcombeprimary.co.uk
4. Do now – sentence or fragment
Decide whether the following are sentences (S) or part of a sentence (F).
1. today is monday but
2. members of parliament meet in the house of commons to discuss important
issues
3. the conservatives are the current
4. boris johnson is the current prime minister
5. members of parliament are selected in a general election which take place
every five years.
5. Do now – sentence or fragment ANSWERS
Decide whether the following are sentences (S) or part of a sentence (F).
1. today is monday but F
2. members of parliament meet in the house of commons to discuss important
issues S
3. the conservatives are the current F
4. boris johnson is the current prime minister S
5. members of parliament are selected in a general election which take place
every five years. S
6. Noun, who/which/where
These sentences are similar to appositives! They are used to add further
information about a noun. For example:
Miss Rickwood, who loves cats, is looking for a new kitten.
London, which is the capital of the United Kingdom, is where members of
parliament meet.
7. Which one should I choose?
In these sentences you need to choose either who, which or where. How do you decide
which is the correct option?
If you’re talking about a person or animal – who
Mr Penney, who often wears a bow tie on a Friday, works at Ashcombe Primary school.
If you’re talking about an object – which
The printer, which is old and broken, is my newest renovation project.
If you’re talking about a place – where
Weston-Super-Mare, where Ashcombe Primary school is located, is filled with lovely
children.
8. Lets try this together
There will be a sentence with a gap and you need to select
if it is who, which or where. Write the sentence out in your
book and fill in the word you think is the correct answer.
Are you ready?
9. Miss Evans, _____ likes to read
books, regularly visits the library.
who where which
10. Miss Evans, _____ likes to read
books, regularly visits the library.
who
where which
11. The old, creaking house, _____
stood on the crooked hill, had been
abandoned for many years.
who where which
12. The old, creaking house, _____
stood on the crooked hill, had been
abandoned for many years.
who where
which
13. The city of London, _____ Members
of Parliament meet, is the capital of
the United Kingdom
who where which
14. The city of London, _____ Members
of Parliament meet, is the capital of
the United Kingdom
who
where
which
15. Great job!
Extra challenge: See if you can
come up with some of your own
noun, who/which/where sentences!
16. Guided reading!
As normal, Monday is our close read. As we are not in
school at the moment this will be slightly different!
Miss Rickwood has recorded the first part of our
new book Nim’s Island onto YouTube. Click on the
book to listen to reading for this week.
Be ready for some SUPER FUN guided reading
questions!!!!!
Just in case there are any technical problems, here is
the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5EZNwkYco
17. Close read questions
1. Summarise what has happened in chapters 1 and 2.
2. Write down the adjective in this sentence: In a palm tree, on an inside, in
the middle of the wide blue sea, was a girl.
3. Look up the word ‘cyclone’ in a dictionary and write down the definition.
* If you don’t have a dictionary at home use a phone/tablet. Ask an adult to
help you if you’re unsure of how to do this.
18. Close read ANSWERS
1. Summarise what has happened in chapters 1 and 2.
Your answer might look something like this:
In chapter 1 and 2 we meet the main character, Nim, who lives on an island
with her father, Jack. She also has two friends: an iguana named Fred and a
sea lion called Selkie. Her father is a scientist and leaves the island to
investigate plankton. He doesn’t arrive back on the island when Nim is
expecting him to so she is worried about him. She keeps checking the
computer for an email from Jack but doesn’t receive anything. Nim tries to
keep herself busy with her friends.
19. Close read ANSWERS
2. Write down the adjective in this sentence: In a palm tree, on an inside, in
the middle of the wide blue sea, was a girl.
You could of written either wide or blue.
3. Look up the word ‘cyclone’ in a dictionary and write down the definition.
Your answer should say something like:
A system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure, with an anticlockwise
(northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.
21. Spelling Shed
Spend 10 minutes on Spelling Shed
practicing the words for this week.
Press the stopwatch to get to Spelling
Shed.
If you’re having any problems accessing
spelling shed please get in contact with
the team:
Year4@ashcombeprimary.co.uk
22. Do now – match up the definition with
the word
Adjective
Noun
Verb
A word used to describe an action.
A word used to describe a noun.
A word used to name something.
23. Do now – match up the definition with
the word ANSWERS
Adjective
Noun
Verb
A word used to describe an action.
A word used to describe a noun.
A word used to name something.
24. Take a look at the video underneath
this called Day 2 - expanded noun
phrases. This should help to jog your
memory.
25. Expanded noun phrase
An expanded noun phrase is two adjectives separated by commas,
which describe a noun.
The creaky, old house
A round, leather football
Melony’s golden, flowing hair
26. Write down 5 expanded noun phrases for
each of these pictures.
27. Choose one of your expanded
noun phrases for each picture
and put it into a sentence
Examples
The playful, young kittens played together.
As I walked around the corner, a creaky, wooden
house appeared in front of me.
A mystical, elegant unicorn wandered in to the
stream.
28. Guided reading!
Today is our non-fiction today. In the chapters we
read yesterday it talked about Nim’s friends. Fred is
an iguana. Therefore, today’s non-fiction piece is all
about iguanas.
Click the image of the book to access today’s reading!
Just in case of any technical problems here is the
link: https://www.livescience.com/51153-iguanas.html
30. Spelling Shed
Spend 10 minutes on Spelling Shed
practicing the words for this week.
Press the stopwatch to get to Spelling
Shed.
If you’re having any problems accessing
spelling shed please get in contact with
the team:
Year4@ashcombeprimary.co.uk
31. Do now- Fill in the gap
Write out the sentence and fill in the gap with either who/which/where. Cast
your mind back to Monday and see if you can still remember what you learnt!
Ready?
1. Joan, ____ was 96 years old, loved to take a walk in the sun.
2. The sea, ____ roared as it crashed against the rocks, threw itself violently
against the shore.
3. My house, _____ I live with my family, is my favourite place to be.
32. Do now- Fill in the gap
Write out the sentence and fill in the gap with either who/which/where. Cast
your mind back to Monday and see if you can still remember what you learnt!
Ready?
1. Joan, who was 96 years old, loved to take a walk in the sun.
2. The sea, which roared as it crashed against the rocks, threw itself violently
against the shore.
3. My house, where I live with my family, is my favourite place to be.
33. Today you are writing a setting
description.
Your setting description can be about anywhere you like! It might be about your
house, your road, your town, an imaginary place, a place in a video game, a fairy
world.
Don’t get too carried away! This is a setting description and not a story! Lets take
a look at an example…
34.
35. Guided reading!
Normally, today would be our guided practice day
where your teacher would talk you through some
questions. This is hard to do at a distance! For the
time being I’ve changed this to prediction day On
Wednesday you’ll predict what you think is going to
come next in the story. Will Jack come back? What
Will Nim get up to next?
Click on the book to listen to the recording again to
remind yourself of what happened at the end of the
chapter!.
Just in case there are any technical problems, here is
the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5EZNwkYco
37. Spelling Shed
Spend 10 minutes on Spelling Shed
practicing the words for this week.
Press the stopwatch to get to Spelling
Shed.
If you’re having any problems accessing
spelling shed please get in contact with
the team:
Year4@ashcombeprimary.co.uk
38. Do now – find the definition of the
following words
Use a dictionary (if you have one) or the internet to find the
definition for the following words!
1. Crescent
2. Dusk
3. Treacherous
39. Do now – find the definition of the
following words ANSWERS
Your answers should say something like…
1. Crescent: The curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon
2. Dusk: The darker stage of twilight
3. Treacherous: Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception
40. Edit and improve…
Today I would like you to go back through your work with a different colour
pen (if you have one) and improve your work. I would like you to check for the
following things:
Capital letters and full stops
Spellings
Does it make sense? – try reading your writing aloud. This might help you
hear if it makes sense.
Expanded noun phrases
41. Guided reading!
Normally, today would be our independent practice
day where you would have a go at some questions. I’ve
changed Thursday too! Thursday will now be news
day. Your guided reading time today should be spent
reading some news articles or maybe you’d like to
watch Newsround?
Click on the book to go to the Newsround website!
Just in case there are any technical problems, here is
the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
43. WOO! You made it
to Friday!
As an end of the week treat your
guided reading and English are all
rolled into one activity.
Underneath these slides will be a
document. Here you will find a text
and some questions to answers. Read
it through carefully and remember to
check your answers at the end.
Well done for making it through the
first week See you next week!
