1 / 6

We are learning to write our own riddles

We are learning to write our own riddles. What am I?. I have no colour, not even white, but sometimes I’m wide and blue. Sometimes I’m still, sometimes I rush, and I can fall down on you. I can change my shape, I often do, but I’m hard to hold in your hand.

channer
Download Presentation

We are learning to write our own riddles

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. We are learning to write our own riddles

  2. What am I? I have no colour, not even white, but sometimes I’m wide and blue. Sometimes I’m still, sometimes I rush, and I can fall down on you. I can change my shape, I often do, but I’m hard to hold in your hand. You need me to make your castle stand up when you’re playing in the sand. I haven’t much taste, but on a hot day Your tongue’s hanging out for me. Then I am cold, but I can be hot When I’m in your mum’s cup of tea. What am I? ?

  3. WATER!

  4. Rules for Writing a ‘What am I?’ Riddle • Write at least 6 clues about different things. • Use present tense (mostly!) • Try to be clever! • Begin each sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full-stop, question mark or exclamation mark. • Use a comma before but. • Finish with a question – What am I?

  5. Over to you! • With your Literacy partner, think of a type of food. Don’t tell anyone else! • Write at least 6 clues about this type of food to make a riddle. • Take a whiteboard each, to help you to plan.

  6. Describe your food! • Is it hot or cold? • Do you have it for breakfast, lunch or dinner? • It is soft or hard and crunchy? • Can you make it into something else? • What does it taste like? Sweet, salty or bitter? • What do you normally eat it with? • What do you normally eat it from? • What colour is it? (Can it be different colours?) • It is a fruit / vegetable / dairy / animal?

More Related