Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Targets for writing


Tushita

  1. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  2. Can use or attempt grammatically complex structures, (e.g. expansion before and after the noun – ‘The little, old man who lived on the hill…; subordinating clauses – ‘I felt better when..; ‘who taught me the guitar.’)
  3. Use of famous quotes

Isha                                                                                                                                            

  1. Apostrophe (Example: Archana’s) + Contractions
  2. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  3. Varying sentence structure

Muskan

  1. Spelling
  2. Punctuation: commas, Question mark
  3. Use of conjunctions in the right places

Aliza

  1. Spelling
  2. Legibility (Handwriting)
  3. Maintain the interest level of the reader

Armaan

  1. Apostrophe (Example: Archana’s) + Contractions
  2. Spelling
  3. Capitalization
  4. Maintain the interest level of the reader

Anik

  1. Tense of verbs
  2. Punctuation: commas, Question mark
  3. Use of conjunctions in the right places

Aman

  1. Spelling
  2. Legibility (Handwriting)
  3. Appropriateness to audience (Example: A letter to a friend must not sound like an essay)

Alisha

  1. Maintain the interest level of the reader
  2. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  3. Use of figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration)

Zia

  1. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  2. Can use or attempt grammatically complex structures, (e.g. expansion before and after the noun – ‘The little, old man who lived on the hill…; subordinating clauses – ‘I felt better when..; ‘who taught me the guitar.’)
  3. Use of famous quotes

Ayaan

  1. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  2. Varying sentence structure
  3. Use of figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration)

Riya

  1. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  2. Use of direct and indirect speech
  3. Varying sentence structure

Nabil

  1. Use of new and interesting words (including adjectives and adverbs)
  2. Varying sentence structure
  3. Apostrophe (Example: Archana’s)


Thursday, March 29, 2012

Monster madness - Short story by Zia, Ayaan and Tushita

Once upon a time there lived a girl called Lucy. She lived in a small house and was very poor.
She was very generous and gentle. One day Lucy was snoring in her bed in a puffy dress. As she was sleeping she heard a noise- CRUSH! CRUSH! CRUSH! It was like an electric shock for her. Lucy opened the door and started walking in the moonlight. The trampling noise was coming nearer and nearer and her house was going farther and further. Then she saw someone coming - thud! thud! thud! The big man was crushing the daisies as he walked.


It was a monster! She wasted tonnes of kinetic energy screaming and yelling! The lizards squashed and the monster's eyes glittered. she tiptoed back upstairs - hushhhh... Lucy reached and back in the bed, snoring.... It was all but a dream! 

Story using new words - By Alisha and Isha

There are two men called Willi Wonka and Simon Puttok who were best friends. They lived in Paris. Simon always medelled with things around him. There was a BIG secret: they were actually brothers and they didn't know it. Mr. bucket and Mrs.bucket were Simon's duplicate parents and they were and furious people. They ruined all  the things around them. Mr and Mrs.Twit were the real parents of willi and Simon and Willy. Mr. and Mrs Twit also had one more son called Charlie Twit. The duplicate parants blackmailed Mr.and Mrs. Twit.

One day, Charlie got to know this secret. He told it to Willi and Simon. Then, They all went to search their parents. While searching they reached the mountains.They did skating but they tumbled down hill. They didn't have any money to eat , so they went in a show where they did somersaults and competed with many others. They won 500 rupees and they ate some food.

When they went to the Eiffel tower something amazing happened. They bumped into their real parents walking with their cat who was chewing his whiskers. Mrs Twit was looking very elegant in her blue dress. The whole family leaped and cheered with joy.