One activity we saw while looking up ideas on the Internet was the idea of 'Alien Adjectives' (which has nice alliteration - another of their focuses in a different week!)
Today we found a heap of alien pictures on google and tomorrow the students will cut out one alien and glue it into the middle of an A4 piece of paper. They then have to write as many adjectives that they can to describe the alien - using basic adjectives at first. Once they have described the alien they pass their alien onto the next person and the next person uses a thesaurus to look up synonyms for those basic adjectives and adds them to the words around the alien. This continues until each student (either in their group or in the whole class) has had a turn at searching for synonyms for the alien.
The aliens will then be displayed in the classroom and those words will help later for their own character descriptions when they write their narratives. Also, it gives the students an oppotunity to learn about the thesaurus, what a synonym is and how they can use more interesting and complex words to describe.
Below I will put the word file with the aliens we are using and on the last page of the file a display heading.
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