Team 2 – English Homework – Gruffalo Group
Week 1 – Due 16/4/15
Week 2 – Due 23/4/15
Comprehension
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
Summer Term (1) – Miss Hemmingway
Week 3 – Due 30/4/15
Saxon and Viking Recipes
Flying with a Dragon-answer these questions
after reading the text.
The Anglo-Saxons loved to play guessing games with
riddles.
Use the following website to research Saxon and Viking
recipes. http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/index28-saxons-vikings.html
Read and solve the riddles on the sheet.
Once you’ve done this, select your favourite foods and
use them to create your own menu. Click on the
activities tab and then menu maker.
http://cookit.e2bn.org/activities/4-activities.html
1 How did Jilly and the dragon get out of her
bedroom?
2 Who was in the garden?
3 What did Jilly ask Lancelot to do?
4 What else did Lancelot do?
5 If people looked up, what would they see?
Looking at words
6 Explain the meaning of these words as they
are used in the story:
a soared
b gasp
c obeyed
d forking
7 Why couldn’t anyone see Jilly and Lancelot?
8 How do you know Jilly was enjoying herself?
9 How does the writer describe:
a Lancelot’s fire
b the people walking below?
Explain why these are good descriptions.
10 How do you know that Jilly had thought
about a dragon ride before?
11 Where do you think Jilly might ask the
dragon to take her?
Imagine you could go for a dragon ride. Write
about where you would ask the dragon to take
you and why.
Now, try writing a riddle of your own. You can think
up a subject for your answer or choose one of
these: a tree, a cloud, a see-saw, the sun, a hand.
Finally choose your favourite riddle, learn it by
heart so that you can perform it to the rest of the
class.
Week 4 – Due 7/5/15
Punctuation
Fill in the missing punctuation.
Full stops, question marks and exclamation
marks.
She works very well in her ballet lessons
Where are we going on holiday this year
I don’t like damp weather
Watch out
Stop it
Have you done your homework
Now write three more sentences of your own
using each punctuation mark.
Week 5 – Due 14/5/15
Adverbs
Week 6 – Due 21/5/15
Learn Something New
Use the link to revise adverbs and verbs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spellinggrammar/verbs_adverbs/read/1/
Insert appropriate adverbs into the sentences.
1. Mike ran …………………………………..into the garden.
2. Jane’s cat miaows ………………….……..when you step on its tail.
3. Monkeys swing ……………………….………………through trees.
Make up the rest of the sentence so that it makes sense
with the adverb.
1. …………..……..……………………..……….……..beautifully.
2. ………………………………………………….………hungrily.
3. …………………………………………….……………angrily.
Copy out the text. Now colour the adverbs (words which
describe verbs) in red and the adjectives (words which
describe nouns) in blue.
As the rat sat calmly on the soft, green grass and looked happily
across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite suddenly
caught his eye. He smiled and imagined dreamily what a warm,
comfortable home it would make for an animal like himself.
Your challenge is to learn something new. Once you have
done this please write about what your activity was,
explaining how you did it. Remember to be precise and
detailed in your explanation.