The document provides reading and writing prompts for students for Week 6. It includes activities like reading an extract from the novel "Seven Ghosts" and answering questions, writing a diary entry about a trip to Grimstone Hall, completing grammar exercises, and practicing spelling words. Students are asked to email any completed work to their teachers for review.

1. English
Scroll down to read the texts and complete your English
activities.

2. Week 6: Reading and writing prompts
Activity 1: Reading
Read the extract from the novel Seven Ghosts by Chris
Priestly

15. Activity 2: Reading
Before reading:
Predict what you think the story might be about based on the
name of it.
During reading:
Write down the name of every new character you meet.
After reading:
Which character do you think is the most important and why?
Week 6: Reading and writing prompts
Seven Ghosts – Pages 1-12
Activity 3: Writing
You have been on a school trip to Grimstone Hall. Write a diary
entry of the day.
• How did it make you feel?
• Did you see anything unusual?

16. Activity 4: Grammar
Circle the verb in this sentence.
She was standing at the bottom of the huge staircase with polished
banisters.
Insert the missing inverted commas in this sentence.
I will be your guide today at Grimstone Hall, she added.
Underline the expanded noun phrase in this sentence.
Mrs. Fox was a tall woman dressed in smart dark-green clothes.
Add the missing inverted commas to this sentence.
I won't overload you with history, Mrs. Fox said.
Circle the adverb in this sentence.
Jasmine confidently asked the first question of the day.
Activity 5: Spelling
Practise each word. Choose two and write their definitions.
Choose two to write in sentences.
Week 6: Grammar and Spelling prompts
accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe

17. Week 6: Grammar and spelling prompts
Activity 6: Handwriting
Practise writing each spelling word five times in your neatest
handwriting.

18. Well done! You have completed the activities for
this week’s Reading & Writing.
Give yourself a star for each activity you took part
in.
Week6
Email any work to T.year4@arktindalprimary.org
so your teachers can see your wonderful work!
I have answered the questions using information from the text.
I have written an interesting diary entry using the correct tense.
I have read and answered the grammar questions carefully.
I have practised the spellings and used some in my own sentences.