Wildebeest Writing

Yesterday we used this animated video as a writing prompt.

We discussed ideas about the structure of the story.

There was a lot of direct speech coming through in our writing, so we had a mini-lesson on punctuating direct speech.

The students' writing is very entertaining so far. Many have chosen to completely change the characters. Look out for their presented writing on the student blogs (links on the right).

Correct Punctuation?

Today our literacy starter was about punctuation. How did we do?

http://literacystarter.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/punctuation/
Copy the sentence below, adding the correct punctuation.


“What did you say?” the teacher asked in astonishment. “How dare you say that in my room, go to the head teacher’s office now!” Fred left the class without saying another word.