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Y5E The Lost Book of Adventure WO1 Immerse Lesson 3

Literacy Counts

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Immerse Lesson 3

Sentence Accuracy

Sentence Accuracy

Quick Build: single-clause sentence

Verb

lay

Who/What

Sentence

I lay there.

Add Detail: relative clauses

which I suspected was broken.

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I lay there with a badly bruised ankle

Re-read

Build

which I suspected was broken.

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I lay there with a badly bruised ankle

Check

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My turn to write the sentence.

Listen to my writer's voice.
Let me hide it!Now your turn.

Your turn to write a sentence.

Write?
Dictate?
Adapt/Extend?
Combine?
Fix?

Use your Sentence Checker

Sentence time over! Click to move on.

Quick Build: single-clause sentence

Verb

had

Subject

Sentence

I had food.

Add Detail: colons for lists

I had all I needed: food, water, shelter, a map and a compass.

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Re-read

Build

Drag the colon into the sentence to introduce the list.
Check

I had all I needed food, water, shelter, a map and a compass.

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My turn to write the sentence.

Listen to my writer's voice.
Let me hide it!Now your turn.

Your turn to write a sentence.

Write?
Dictate?
Adapt/Extend?
Combine?
Fix?

Use your Sentence Checker

Sentence time over! Click to move on.

Can I understand and use the vocabulary in the Example Text?

Vehicle Text Recap

Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
How?
When?

Let's see what you can remember about what has happened in The Lost Book of Adventure so far.

Example Text Vocabulary Time

Hover for definitions!

meandering

misinterpreting

inhospitable

arrogance

Hover for definitions!

hostile

imperceptibly

eddied

writhe

Hover for definitions!

when I came to

my head swam

arachnids

instinct

tendons

intense humidity

Let me read the Example Text

Into the Unknown

The river carved a meandering path through the dense jungle. As the emerald waters eddied lazily, I guided my raft around the bend. I landed the vessel on a nearby sand bank, then moored it to a rock. The immense jungle, which rose up before me, was a shadowy wall of vines and mystery. I shivered, misinterpreting the early warning sign as excitement. I was overoptimistic and underprepared. Arrogance was my first mistake.

Three days of heavy work followed. I hacked and slashed through thick vines. Cautiously, I picked my way between venomous barbs of ancient, overgrown flora. My arms ached and my head swam with the intense humidity. The ragged remains of my hand-drawn map were useless – this was undiscovered territory and I was here alone. As each evening drew closer, I crafted a shelter to suit my environment. It was essential that I was elevated off the jungle floor as protection from the numerous hostile insects and arachnids. I accepted that I was prey, but in the end, it wasn’t the spiders that got me.

I was two days deeper into the unknown and two days further from civilisation. After a dense stretch of inhospitable jungle, the greenery gave way to a sheer rock wall. I began to climb using jagged ledges and mossy crevices as hand and footholds. Motivated by the challenge, I hauled myself further until there was a three-metre distance between myself and the ground. The tendons in my hands cramped and my calves burned. I gave another almighty heave and pulled myself up onto a ledge. It was at this moment that everything went wrong. In my haste, I hadn’t followed one of the golden rules of exploring – always look before you leap. I glanced upward and came face to face with the dark, ruthless eyes of a black mamba.

Time slowed down. The mamba, who was certainly unhappy at being disturbed, was beginning to uncoil. I shivered almost imperceptibly. Time to revise my options: either risk a bite that would surely kill me or allow myself to fall three metres to the floor. Fighting every natural instinct, I pushed back from the unfurling snake as it lunged. Gravity did its job. My body smashed into the hard ground. When I came to, I was lying in a heap, bruised and with a suspected broken ankle.

The return journey to my raft was a blur of dehydration and disorienting pain. I fought to stay calm. The slow travel made me more vulnerable to insect bites and I was conscious of the dangers nearby. Six days after my near-death experience, I collapsed on the shore by my raft. Malnourished, dehydrated, but alive.

Question Quiz Time

Team Competition
Secret Selector
How will we answer our questions today?
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Find Me

Find two words that show the explorer character was too confident at first.

I shivered, misinterpreting the early warning sign as excitement. I was overoptimistic and underprepared. Arrogance was my first mistake.

arrogance

overoptimistic

Which One's Right?

What does the phrase 'a shadowy wall of vines and mystery' tell us about the jungle?

B It is dark but open

A It is welcoming and calm

C It is threatening and unknown

D It is quiet and empty

Tick Me

Check

Which phrases show that the jungle feels dangerous? Tick two.

A emerald waters eddied lazily

B hostile insects and arachnids

C venomous barbs of ancient, overgrown flora

D a nearby sand bank

Odd One Out

Reveal Text

Which word does not describe the explorer's character during the encounter with the snake?

B calculating

A panic-stricken

D angry

C frightened

Can I understand and use the vocabulary in the Example Text?

CEW

Handwriting

Writing Effects

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Other...

Feedback: Who did what well?

Time slowed down. The mamba, who was certainly unhappy at being disturbed, was beginning to uncoil. I shivered almost imperceptibly. Time to revise my options: either risk a bite that would surely kill me or allow myself to fall three metres to the floor. Fighting every natural instinct, I pushed back from the unfurling snake as it lunged. Gravity did its job. My body smashed into the hard ground. When I came to, I was lying in a heap, bruised and with a suspected broken ankle.

which I suspected was broken.

___________________________________________

I lay there with a badly bruised ankle

I had all I needed: food, water, shelter, a map and a compass.

____________________________________________