Year 3 Writing Tasks
At the moment we are in the middle of a VERY significant time in
history. Life is changing daily. Your grandchildren will want to know
what it was like.
So, your tasks this week revolve around helping your future self and
maybe thinking a little bit about others.
You will need to write 2 letters.
Letter 1 – Write a letter to your future self. Include details like your
age, who your friends are, your favourite TV show, favourite song,
book etc.
Then in your own words tell your future self all about what is going on
in the world at the moment - you might talk about school being
closed, people fighting over toilet roll, being at home all together as a
family or anything else that you think is important about this time in
history.
Tell your future self how you feel at the moment, what your dreams
are, what you would like to be when you grow up. You could include a
list of five things you would like to do when you are an adult! You could
even include pictures.
If you write it well, this will be something to treasure and your future
self will love it!
Letter 2 – There are lots of people who are all by themselves at the
moment and who will be feeling very lonely and isolated because they
are trying to keep themselves safe. You might even have someone in
this position in your own family. Your second task is to write to
someone real, or imaginary, who is in this position.
It would be even better if when the letter is finished you could actually
send it to someone that you know– by post if it is safe to do so, or by
email.
Make sure you introduce yourself; ask how they are; tell them as much
news as you can about you, your family and what you have been doing
and remember to wish them well. You could even ask them to write
back and include some pictures.
If you do it well enough you will definitely make their day and spread
some smiles!
Below are the success criteria to help you to make your writing the
best it can be. Use the one most appropriate to you.
Bronze
LO: To use the features of a letter.
Have I used… Letter 1 Letter 2
Address
Long date
Who I am writing to (Dear …)
Introduction – Hello, my name is…, I am writing to this letter because…,
A range of information as outline in the instructions for the task e.g.
questions – How are you? What have you been up to? News about what
you have been doing and how you are feeling.
Informal (chatty language)
A conclusion – wishing the reader good health and in the case of letter
2 encouraging a reply.
Sign off – (lots of love, stay safe, all my love, etc)
Your name
TARGET
To independently use capital letters, full stops and question marks
correctly.
Silver
LO: To use the features of a letter.
Have I used… Letter 1 Letter 2
Address
Long date
Who I am writing to (Dear …)
Introduction – Hello, my name is…, I am writing to this letter because…,
A range of information as outline in the instructions for the task e.g.
questions – How are you? What have you been up to? News about what
you have been doing and how you are feeling.
Informal (chatty language)
A conclusion – wishing the reader good health and in the case of letter
2 encouraging a reply.
Sign off – (lots of love, stay safe, all my love, etc)
Your name
TARGET To use range of time conjunctions e.g. after that, next, firstly
Gold
LO: To use the features of a letter.
Have I used… Letter 1 Letter 2
Address
Long date
Who I am writing to (Dear …)
Introduction – Hello, my name is…, I am writing to this letter because…,
A range of information as outline in the instructions for the task e.g.
questions – How are you? What have you been up to? News about what
you have been doing and how you are feeling.
Time conjunctions e.g. after that, next,
Informal (chatty language)
A conclusion – wishing the reader good health and in the case of letter
2 encouraging a reply.
Sign off – (lots of love, stay safe, all my love, etc)
Your name
TARGET
To use a range of sentence starters including adverbs– Happily, I
have…, and prepositions – Yesterday … At the end of the street … later
today.