Practise for Writing

2. Learning Intention
Success Criteria
 To understand how to use more advanced
word choices in my writing.
 I can use all elements of VCOP in my writing.

3. VOCABULARY
Noun and Verb game
Look at these lists of nouns and verbs. Pick one from each and try to make
a sentence using the words (you can change the tenses of the words).
Nouns Verbs
bread stole
food slammed
boy jumped
jail vanished
E.g. Jailed for stealing bread, the bars of the prison door slammed behind the boy and
he was not be seen again by his family for seven years.. (Don’t forget capital letters and
full stops)

4. There are different ways to open a
sentence. One is ‘ly’ starters
e.g. – Intelligently, the famous
Dutch explorer Dirk Harthog
decided to leave behind a plate, so
people knew he had been to
Australia.
openers

5. Write 1 sentence using a ‘ly’ starter and the
picture provided?
openers
Make sure you finish each
sentence.
e.g. ………….., the boy warmed
his hands.

6. Punctuation
Add the correct missing punctuation to this
paragraph:
throughout the 1700s the poverty rates were
very high a lot of people were out of work
turning to a life of crime to feed themselves and
their family
Missing Punctuation: 2x C + 2x . 1x ,

7. Punctuation
Add the correct missing punctuation to this
paragraph:
Throughout the 1700s the poverty rates were
very high. A lot of people were out of work,
turning to a life of crime to feed themselves and
their family.
Missing Punctuation: 2x C + 2x . 1x ,

8. Connectives
Complete this sentence using one of
these connectives.
because - even though – despite
Slowly, the desperate man’s hand reached
towards the loaf bread…