03 Dec Year 6, A2, Week 4
In Year 6 this week, the class worked on developing our sentences to make their writing interesting and varied for their reader. The children are currently reading Anne Frank’s diary and are preparing to write our their diary entries, as if they were Anne, during World War Two. Year 6 started with their main clauses, which contain a verb and a subject, ensuring that they were correctly punctuated. They then reflected on their prior learning for how they could improve these sentences. The class added fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses and relative clauses to add additional information. They then learnt how to add -ed clauses at the beginning of their sentences. The children had to choose a relevant adjective, then add a preposition and then add the extra information. For example, the main clause “I am trying to stay positive” became “Horrified by news of the Nazi persecution of Jewish people, I am trying to stay positive, although it seems impossible at the moment.” Some children were even able to challenge themselves by replacing their subordinate conjunctions with a semicolon. Wow Year 6!