Direct Speech: Adélie penguin
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Rewrite the first sentence using inverted commas to indicate the spoken words.
Challenge 2
Rewrite the second sentence using all of the correct punctuation marks.
Challenge 3
Following on from the scintillating sentence passage on the previous page, continue the conversation between Arwel and Amos. Perhaps Amos has a suspicion that Arwel’s stones are being stolen by another Adélie from their colony? Don’t forget the rules for writing direct speech and try to include some of the descriptive words on the Word Wall.
Whiteboard Challenges
1) As the biting wind blew heavy snowflakes into her face, the producer said, Although they look clumsy on land, they are brilliant swimmers.
2) Someone must be stealing your stones exclaimed Amos as he scoured the colony with his beady eyes It’s the only explanation