Homework due 4.3.15
Ready… Steady… Read!
Next week is World Book Week! To celebrate this, your homework is to read a chapter of your favourite book and either:
- Recreate it as a comic book strip
- Write a book review for it
If you chose to write a comic book strip, you can either use the template provided or draw your own one.
Success Criteria for a comic book strip
- Clear, colourful pictures
- A short one sentence caption for each box
- Speech bubbles (if needed) for the characters
- Correct sequence of events- as told in the book/chapter
If you would like to write a book review, this can be presented in your neatest handwriting in your homework book or typed up.
The information/questions you may want to include in your book review:
- Title of the book
- Author of the book
- Who the book is aimed at?
- Brief explanation about what happens in the book
- Why do you like it?
- What is your favourite character/part of the story? Why?
- Would you recommend it to other people to read? Why?
- Star Rating
Success Criteria for a book review
- Use subheadings to clearly display your information
- Give lots of detail explaining your opinion and why
- Use quotes from the book
- Use high quality adjectives to describe the book (not ‘good’ or ‘bad’)
Spellings
Group A:
brilliant
radiant
reluctant
observant
unobservant
pleasant
descendant
restaurant
Group B:
brilliant
radiant
constant
distant
elegant
fragrant
important
restaurant
