Writing Homework: A Postcard from the Seaside

Year 1 EnglishWriting6 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 1 writing homework about a postcard from the seaside, in five pages plus answers. A note for parents and carers explains the aim: say each sentence out loud before writing it. Children read Sam's postcard to Gran and answer four questions, including how many sentences it has. They label four seaside pictures from a word bank, fill three gaps and put two muddled sentences in order. After talking their ideas through with a grown-up, they write their own postcard with address lines and draw the picture side. It follows the England National Curriculum for Year 1 writing composition.

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Writing Homework: A Postcard from the Seaside: Writing - page 6

Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - composition

“Saying out loud what they are going to write about”

Part 4 has children tell a grown-up who the postcard is for and say a sentence using two words from the bank.

Writing - composition

“Composing a sentence orally before writing it”

Question 13 tells children to say each sentence before they write it on the postcard.

Writing - composition

“Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense”

Question 15 asks children to read the finished postcard back to a grown-up.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark”

Children point to each capital and full stop on Sam's postcard, and question 9 needs a capital T and a full stop.

What's inside this worksheet

Note to Parents and Carers

A short box asking grown-ups to have their child say the whole sentence aloud and count the words on their fingers first.

Model Postcard

Sam's three-sentence postcard to Gran Smith in Cornwall, then questions on who it is to, who wrote it, what Sam found and how many sentences there are.

Seaside Words

A bank of six words (sand, waves, shell, bucket, ice cream, crab). Children label four pictures and fill three gap sentences.

Say It, Then Fix It

Two muddled sentences to reorder, such as cold / The / are / waves., and the crab is in my bucket to correct with a capital and a full stop.

Talk Before You Write

Three tick-box speaking tasks done with a grown-up, such as choosing two bank words and saying a sentence about them.

Write Your Postcard

A postcard template with Dear, From, a stamp box and four address lines, then a large box to draw the front and a three-point check.

Answers

Answers to questions 1 to 9 and what to look for in the finished postcard, with an example of three sentences.

How teachers use it

Before it goes home

Read Sam's postcard aloud in class first, so every child knows what a postcard looks like before they meet the sheet at home.

Timing

Set it in the first weeks of September, while children still have holiday news, or at the end of a seaside topic.

Postcard display

Pin the postcards up with their drawings beside them, and ask three children to read theirs to the class.

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