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A Writing Root for The BFG

 

KS: Lower KS2

Year Group: Year 3

Author(s): Roald Dahl

This is a Home Learning Branch for The BFG.  These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots.  They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.

A Spelling Seed is available for The BFG.

Spelling Seed Overview:

Overview:

This is a three-session spelling seed for the book The BFG by Roald Dahl.  Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.

There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.

Coverage:

Word List Words

address, famous, grammar, guard, potatoes, sentence

Spelling Rules and Patterns

Endings which sound like /ʃən/, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian

The suffix –ation

View The BFG Spelling Seed

A Home Learning Branch is available for The BFG.

Home Learning Branch Overview:

This is a Home Learning Branch for The BFG.  These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots.  They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.

View The BFG Home Learning Branch
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