What will you dream of tonight?

By Frances Stickley and Anuska Allepuz

As part of our heath and well-being week on hopes and dreams we would love you to read,

'What will you dream of tonight' by Frances Stickley and Anuska Allepuz.

Follow the link below 

https://www.francesstickley.com/dream

Objective-Can I use new vocabulary in context?

In this lesson you will explore words and phrases from our story on dreams. Some words and phrases will be more familiar than others.

Remember when you were unsure about new vocabulary, such as elusive, torrent and ominous? I know from your wonderful writing that you can now use these ambitious words in your own work.

Adding pictures and actions really helped us in class.

Task

OPEN THE WORD DOC ABOVE TO DISCOVER NEW WORDS AND PHRASES

• Draw your own illustration for each of the new words.

What might you draw for the word ‘lair’?

• Add a simple action to help you recall the meaning of each word.
• Use each word in an expanded sentence.

E.g. Dazzling shooting stars soar through the blanket of midnight sky.

            Objective-Can I use new phrases in context?

In this lesson you will explore phrases from our story on dreams. Some phrases will be more familiar than others.

Task

OPEN THE WORD DOC ABOVE TO DISCOVER NEW PHRASES

• Use the explanatory phrases to help you describe the effect of each phrase from the story.

E.g. Whispering trees makes the reader think the character may be somewhere magical or enchanted.

E.g. Soft lullaby reminds me of a mother and baby. The word lullaby makes me think of something soothing and gentle.

Can you use each phrase in a new sentence?

E.g. The elusive whale ventured on, as the waves crash and curl.

Objective-Can I write a poem linked to dreams using an ABCB rhyme scheme?

In this lesson you will recap and explore poetry features.

Did you notice the many poetic features in our story?

Task

OPEN THE WORD DOC ABOVE

• Make a bank of rhyming words you could use in your poem.
• Use the ABCB rhyme scheme to plan out your own poem on dreaming.
• If the rhyme doesn’t work, remember don’t worry, word choice is more important.
• Importantly, have fun writing.