Big Writing - w/b Monday 3rd May

For our next Big Writing we will once again be basing our writing on Ted Hughes’ ‘The Iron Man.’ We will be writing a newspaper report describing the first sighting of The Iron Man.  This is a two week writing unit, so we will complete our final Big Write on Friday 14th May.

It would be useful if you could discuss and practise the following with your child:

· using the word of the week ‘surreal’

· Talk about the features of a newspaper report: the headline, subheaded paragraphs, eye-witness quotes.

· Try to think of a catchy headline to describe the first sighting of the mysterious Iron Man.

Many thanks,

Mrs Vaqueiro