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Wednesday 5th November 2025

Draw inferences around characters’ thoughts, feelings and actions  and justify with evidence from the text.

In written texts, the author may leave clues for the reader to make inferences from - this makes it more interesting to read.

Let's read this text together:

What can we infer from the clues the writer has given the reader?

Let's work on the first question together, then your turn.

Adaptive task 

 

Wednesday 5th November 2025

LC: To describe characters orally and in writing. 

 

Grammar: 

Screen shot the text below and use mark up to collect inverted commas and other punctuation from the text. Check that they are all enclosing the words actually spoken. Look at the words outside inverted commas – collect and classify their function.

Her husband was worried about her and asked, "What is wrong my dear?" "Ah," she replied, "if I can't eat some of the rapunzel from the garden behind our house I think I shall die."

The man, who loved her, thought, "Sooner than let my lovely wife die, I will bring her some of the rapunzel myself, no matter what the cost." The enchantress nodded, her scowl turning to a sly smile. “You are forgiven. Take as much of the rampion as you can carry.” The woodcutter’s eyes almost popped out of his head. “As much as I can carry?” he gasped. “Yes,” snapped the enchantress. “But on one condition. You must give me the child that your wife will bring into the world. It will be well treated and I will care for it like a mother.”

The enchantress nodded, her scowl turning to a sly smile, “You are forgiven. Take as much of the rampion as you can carry.” The woodcutter’s eyes almost popped out of his head, “As much as I can carry?” he gasped. “Yes,” snapped the enchantress, “but on one condition. You must give me the child that your wife will bring into the world. It will be well treated and I will care for it like a mother.”

 

Watch the author Radiya Hafiza introduce the story. 

 

Whoosh drama approach for story telling: 

05.11.25

Be able to multiply by 11

Review

Define It

uncertain          unusual                  unexpected                uncommon        unimportant        unequal              unfinished                   unlucky                                     unsafe                                        uncomfortable

Can we match each word to its definition?

If you don't have much luck in life, people may say you are this. 

An event that does not happen very often might be described as this. 

If you are not sure about something, you might be said to be this. 

Something that is out of the ordinary. 

This word is the opposite of the word 

If something is this, it could hurt you or cause problems. 

You might use this word to show that something is of no value or does not matter. 

This is sometimes used as a synonym for the word unfair. 

 

Can you give a definition for the remaining two words?

Learning

 Remember, the prefix un- usually means 'not' or 'the opposite of'.

Let's share read read the following pairs of multisyllabic words, and I will  say a sentence for each word. 

fortunate unfortunate

 

familiar unfamiliar

 

comfortable uncomfortable

 

The use of the prefix un- changed the words to mean 'not' or 'the opposite of', so completely changed the meaning of my sentences..

Now we will clap the syllables of each word then practise writing them in our spelling journals using the the Sticky Word Strategy: 

Practise and apply

Now use the same strategy to practise spelling these words.

usual              unusual

cover              uncover

expected     unexpected

decided      undecided

 

Word to Sentence Spellers

Now let's think, say then write a sentence for one pair of the words.

My turn

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Your turn

Guru Nanak's Birthday: 

Sikhs celebrate the Birthday of Guru Nanak on the date of the full moon in the month of Katak - usually October/November. The assembly celebrates Nanak Dev's birthday by focusing on his message, received from God, that all are equal before God and should live peacefully with one another.