Library Lessons - Reading homework sheet

Library Lessons - Reading Homework Sheet

Note: If you have achieved 3 accurate homeworks in a row, with no errors, move on to the next stage, regardless of which week we are on. 

English Department

All Saints’ R C School__________________________________________________

Homework

You should have two pieces of English homework each week.  At least one of these will involve completing a piece of work, doing some research, practising a particular skill or preparing for a Controlled Assessment/Exam.  On the weeks when you are only set one piece of homework, the other piece is set out below:

Read a fiction book from the library for at least 20 minutes.  In the back of your exercise book:

-      write the date and the title of the book and underline them

-      write the author’s name

-      make sure you also make a note of the number of pages you read during the 20 minutes

-      then write three sentences, including any necessary punctuation, describing  3 new developments in the story.

It should look a little like this:

                                                                                                8^th March 2012

The Silver Sword

By Ian Serrailler

Pages 32-43

1. Joseph Balicki managed to escape from the prison camp.
2. He hid up a chimney in a house belonging to an elderly Polish couple.
3. After several days, Joseph built up his strength to set off and find his family in Warsaw.

Follow this weekly plan for your homework:

Weeks 1-3 – Start each sentence with a different word

Weeks 4-6 – Use an adjective (describing word) to describe each noun (name of a person, place or thing) E.g. he hid up a narrow chimney in the old house

Weeks 7-9 – Start each sentence using a different word; add adjectives to each noun and add an adverb to each verb. E.g. He quickly hid up a narrow chimney in the old house

Weeks 10-12 – Start each sentence using an adjective E.g. The brave man hid up a narrow chimney in the old house

Weeks 13-15 – Start each sentence using a verb.  E.g. Hiding up a narrow chimney, the brave man manage to escape.

Weeks 15-18 – Start each sentence using an adverb. E.g. Quickly hiding up a narrow chimney, the brave man managed to escape.

Weeks 19-21 – Start each sentence using a preposition. E.g. Up  a narrow chimney, the brave man hid in order to escape.