Reading Books

Turn Off That Tap!

Complete the BEWARE! poster. Draw a picture of the water bottles inside the box on the poster.

The words in this box will help you:

plastic bottles      filling     hosepipe     selling     bottled water     cheating

Warming Up

Build the words by adding ‘er’.

warm + er =	Warmer
slow + er =	Slower
thick + er =	Thinker
green + er =	Greener
cold + er =	Colder
deeper + er =	Deeperer

Replace the underlined word with the correct form of the word.

It could be dangerous if the Earth got any warmer.

If the ice melts, Greenland will be greener.

The sky blanket is getting thicker.

If the snow and ice melt, the water will get deeper.

Smugglers

Study the word on the left, then colour it black. Type the word, check it, then type the word again - fast!

Word	Type	Check ✅ or ❌	Type fast
looked	looked	looked	looked
liked	liked	liked	liked
turned	turned	turned	turned
slower	slower	slower	slower
larger	larger	larger	larger
taller	taller	taller	taller
hiding	hiding	hiding	hiding
taking	taking	taking	taking
coming	coming	coming	coming
doing	doing	doing	doing

Say No to Noise!

Number these sentences in the correct order.

1	On their way home, Alex and Sarah heard loud music playing.
6	“We could go round the back,” said Sarah.
2	Alex rang the doorbell, but no one came.
3	“We must tell them to turn the music down,” said Alex.
7	Sarah called the police.
5	They saw two cages full of puppies.
4	As they went round the back, they looked in a window.

Scott and the Viking Ship

Read the sentences and decide if they are True or False.

Sentence	True or False
Scott looked in a new mirror.	False
Scott felt himself falling into the mirror.	True
Scott found himself on an English ship.	False
The ship was on its way to attack England.	True
Big Olaf beat the drum very fast.	True
Erik cracked a long whip.	False
Suddenly Scott stopped rowing.	True
Big Olaf was thrown into the sea.	True

A Longship Sets Sail

Choose a word from each list to make a compound word.

Make as many words as you can! (Can you make 15 compound words?)

some		body
foot		thing
sun		times
every		man
any		ball
snow		light
moon		one

Compound words

Somebody	Anyone	Snowball
Sunlight	Everything	Moonlight
Football	Everybody	Onelight
Snowlight	Anything	Everyone
Sometimes	Anybody	Something

LI: To practise reading skills.

LI: To take turns to speak and listen to others

LI: To learn new words.

I learnt that tricky words can get tricky even if you know them all ready. I also learnt that sometimes it is hard to do things and it is not. It is hard if it is a challenge. I also learnt that new words gets you thinking about even more. How I learnt this was by doing the task and listening.