11+ Writing Task - FREE

Are you preparing your child for an 11+ writing exam?✍️

Well, learning to write well is about exercising the writing muscle – regularly!🧠

So, here’s a free task your child might like to use this week. It’s suitable for Years 4 to 6 or Year 3 with adult guidance.

What to do?

👉 1. Have a look at the picture on this post. Ask yourself the 5Ws. Who? What? Where? When? Why?

👉 2. Read through the vocabulary list at the end of this post. There may be some ideas you’d like to use.

👉 3. Read through the model text. This will give you an idea of how you might like to start or develop the setting, mood and character.

👉 4. Have a go! Maybe set a timer and say to yourself, I’m going to see what I can write in 15 minutes. It needn’t be a whole story, just the beginning, or even the exciting bit in the middle! The primary purpose is to write, exercise your writing brain, and apply new vocabulary!

The main thing is to enjoy the process and revel in the beautiful images you can create with words!

Happy writing!

Anna

Text example – the beginning

Absorbed by her book, Yeny failed to spot something strange happening next to her; she did feel a tingle and certain light-headedness, but she continued reading.

As sweet music wafted around her head, something finally caught her attention. Gazing up, she inhaled sharply. Her bedroom had gone – wholly disappeared. Instead, a buttermilk cobbled path twisted into a mesmerising valley guarded by steep, meandering hills peppered with shrubs, bracken and ferns. However, it was the swooping dragon swirling through the crisp spring skies that made her sit bolt upright.

Vocabulary suggestions for the character who is reading

Verbs

absorbed, focused, engrossed, fascinated, captivated, smelt, wafted, inhaled, wafted,

Nouns

other words for a book: a tome, a volume

Adjectives

weighty, ancient, dusty, captivating, musty, absorbing,

Figurative language

Personification

… the words danced off the page

… the weighty volume captured the girl’s imagination

… the ancient book sucked in the girl

… the story attacked her senses (personification)

Simile

… the pages were like living in a different world (simile)

Hyperbole (exaggeration)

… a million thoughts filled her head