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Writing about your future job

I can write about what I want to be when I grow up.

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Writing about your future job

I can write about what I want to be when I grow up.

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Key learning points

  1. Writing about what someone will be when they grow up means writing in the future, using phrases such as 'I want to...'
  2. Rehearsing a sentence out loud before writing it helps us to remember it
  3. Common exception words are words that cannot be sounded out easily
  4. Sounding out a word before writing helps to spell a word
  5. Reading back writing is important to check it is correct and makes sense

Keywords

  • Simple sentence - a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense

  • Capital letter - the upper case formation of a letter

  • Full stop - a punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence

  • Character traits - the special qualities that make a character themselves

  • Future - something that has not happened yet

Common misconception

Children may have already thought about a different aspiration (e.g. footballer, singer etc.)

Encourage pupils to choose a different job if they have requested and work with them to find a suitable adjective, such as 'unstoppable footballer' instead of 'helpful footballer'. The purpose of the task is about aspiration, so any job is suitable.


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Refer to your phonics scheme's approach and terminology around 'common exception words' and label them as such. As the sentence to write starts with a number of these words, you could provide a printed sentence stem or display it on the board for the children.
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Equipment

You will need a copy of the 2020 Hodder Children's Books edition of 'A Superhero Like You' by Dr. Ranj.

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these words are adjectives that could describe people who help us?
Correct answer: brave
lazy
boring
Correct answer: unstoppable
Q2.
Match the word to its role in a sentence.
Correct Answer:adjective,describes a noun in a sentence
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describes a noun in a sentence

Correct Answer:capital letter,an uppercase letter that starts a sentence
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an uppercase letter that starts a sentence

Correct Answer:full stop ,a punctuation mark that often ends a sentence
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a punctuation mark that often ends a sentence

Q3.
Correct the spelling in this sentence. Flowers groa when they are in sunlight.
Correct answer: grow
groe
gro
Q4.
Which is the only complete sentence that is correct as it makes sense?
kind nurse
Correct answer: The kind nurse helps me.
Kind the nurse helps me.
The helps me kind nurse.
Q5.
Match the word to its example.
Correct Answer:capital letter,A
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A

Correct Answer:full stop,.
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.

Correct Answer:noun,pilot
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pilot

Correct Answer:adjective,kind
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kind

Q6.
Which of these sentences is punctuated correctly?
the nurse helps me.
The nurse helps me
the nurse helps me
Correct answer: The nurse helps me.

6 Questions

Q1.
Complete this sentence. The __________ is something that has not yet happened.
past
present
Correct answer: future
Q2.
Match the starts of these sentences to whether they are in the past, present or the future.
Correct Answer:I was...,past
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past

Correct Answer:I am...,present
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present

Correct Answer:I will... ,future
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future

Q3.
Tick the correct spelling of the word in bold in this sentence. 'I whant to be a doctor.'
wont
Correct answer: want
whont
wat
Q4.
Tick the correct spelling of the word in bold in this sentence. 'I want two be a vet.'
too
ot
Correct answer: to
Q5.
Tick the correct spelling of the word in bold in this sentence. 'I want to bee a soldier.'
Correct answer: be
by
bey
Q6.
Which is the correctly punctuated sentence?
i want to be a vet when I grow up
I want to be a vet when I grow up
Correct answer: I want to be a vet when I grow up.
i want to be a vet when I grow up.