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| |Look for smaller words within words |Break words into syllables |

|Use the pictures |c-at |e.g. cat-er-pill-ar |

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| |Skip the word and read the rest of the sentence to try and work out what it says |Did the sentence you read make sense? |

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Decoding strategies

Week 1 Tuesday Word reading 1

|Humpback Whale Fact Sheet |

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|Description |Size |

|Humpback whales are one of the most recognisable whales due to the hump on their backs. They are a|The average humpback whale is about the same size as a bus and|

|grey or black colour and have white markings on their underside. Humpback whales can sing magical |can weigh around 36 tons. They have five metre long flippers |

|songs, which travel for miles under the water. They sing to communicate with others and to attract|to help them swim. Baby whales are called calves. The calves |

|mates. They are now an endangered species. |do not stop growing until they are ten years old. |

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|Diet |Travel |

|They feed on tiny shrimp-like krill, plankton and small fish. They |Humpback whales can travel enormous distances and are powerful swimmers. They migrate |

|can eat up to a ton of food in one day. |seasonally and during the summer months they must feed lots to build up the strength to |

|[pic] |migrate. They can travel in pods of up to 20,000 whales. |

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Week 1 Tuesday Word reading 1

|Humpback Whale Fact Sheet |

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|Description |Size |

|Humpback whales have a hump on their backs. They are grey or black on top and white under. They |The humpback whale is about the same size as a bus and weighs |

|can sing magical songs, which travel for miles under the water. They sing to call others. They are|36 tons. They have long flippers to help them swim. Baby |

|very rare and hard to spot. |whales are called calves. The calves do not stop growing until|

|[pic] |they are ten years old. |

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|Diet |Travel |

|They feed on tiny krill, plankton and small fish. They can eat up to |Humpback whales can travel very far. In the winter they swim to warm waters. They can |

|a ton of food in one day. |travel in pods with lots of other whales. |

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|Humpback Whale Fact Sheet |

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|Description |Size |

|Humpback whales have a hump on their backs. They are grey or black. |The humpback whale is the size as a bus. |

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|They can sing songs, which travel under the water. They have huge tails and long flippers. |Baby whales are called calves. The calves grow until they are |

| |ten years old. |

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|Food |Travel |

|They feed on krill and small fish. [pic] [pic] |Humpback whales can travel very far. In the winter they swim to warm waters. |

|They can eat up to a ton of food in one day. |They travel in pods with lots of other whales. |

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Week 1 Wednesday Composition 1

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Week 1 Wednesday Composition 1

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Week 1 Wednesday Composition 1

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Week 1 Wednesday Composition 1

|Character Profile |

|Name of character: |

|Choose some adjectives to describe them |What do they look like? |

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|What do they like to do? |

|What do they like to eat? |

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Week 1 Friday Composition 2

|Choose two characters from the story and write a conversation between them |

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Week 1 Friday Composition 2

|My Favourite Character |

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Week 1 Friday Composition 2

Spelling List

Homophones are the same sounding words but with different meanings.

Work out the meanings of each of these words and see if you can write a sentence using them.

E.g. It was too cold to go swimming.

1. too

2. to

3. two

4. their

5. there

6. they’re

7. hear

8. here

9. blew

10. blue

Week 2 Tuesday Transcription 2

Spelling List

Homophones are the same sounding words but with different meanings.

Work out the meanings of each of these words and see if you can think of a sentence using each one.

E.g. It was too cold to go swimming.

1. too

2. to

3. two

4. hear

5. here

6. blew

7. blue

Week 2 Tuesday Transcription 2

Spelling List

Homophones are the same sounding words but with different meanings.

Work out the meanings of each of these words and see if you can think of a sentence using each one.

E.g. It was too cold to go swimming.

1. blew

2. blue

3. too

4. to

5. two

Week 2 Tuesday Transcription 2

Story Pegs for The Whales’ Song

Week 2 Wednesday Composition 3

Week 2 Wednesday Composition 3

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Week 2 Tuesday Composition 3

Week 2 Tuesday Composition 3

Week 2 Tuesday Composition 3

Story Planner

Week 2 Wednesday Composition 3

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Week 1 Tuesday Word reading 1

Week 1 Tuesday Word reading 1

1. How does the story start?

Intro to characters – one character should be a granny or granddad/aunt/ uncle/friend and the other character should be the child themselves.

O2. One character tells the child about a wonderful animal they have seen.

Describe the animal they have decided to use.

3. They go and look for the animal but don’t find it.

4. They hear the animal in the night and go out and see it. They give it a present.

5. They come back and are happy.

Beginning

Beginning

4. They hear the animal in the night and go out and see it.

3. They go and look for the animal but don’t find it.

End

End

5. They come back and are happy.

2. One character tells the child about a wonderful animal they have seen. Describe it.

1. How does the story start? Introduce the characters.

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