Wednesday 28 January 2015

Blurb blogging - Danny the Champion of the World.


As you may have read in my last post about the benefits of blogging in the classroom and in homework, I am very impressed with the written work my class have produced over the last few weeks.  The children should take the credit for their writing with the effort they have been putting in.  Using the iPads in class is also a major advantage as the children have access to the blog at their fingertips.

Children are currently undertaking a Novel Study, focusing on one of my favourites, Danny the Champion of the World. They have been:


  • Learning about the form and function of a blurb.
  • Writing their own blurbs for the book.
  • Writing for different audiences.

  • The success criteria for a good blog (which the children had a hand in negoiating themselves) was:

  • They are short in length.
  • They use attention-grabbing words and phrases. (WOW words if possible!)
  • They tend to use question and exclamation marks.
  • They often use three full stops at their ends (an ellipsis) to leave the reader asking questions...

  • Blogging gives the children the perfect opportunity to showcase their blurbs and show awareness of writing for an audience.

    Have a look in the comments section below at some of their early drafts.

    18 comments:

    1. There is a little boy called Danny and he thinks his dad is the most amazing dad that anyone could have.He gets him the best surprises on his birthday like fireballon.But his dad has a big secret will he find out?

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    2. Danny is a little boy who loves is dad to bits .Danny thinks his father is really phenomenal and is the dream dad but what he doesn't know is that is amazing dad has a DEEP DARK SECRET!!!!!
      Follow Danny and his father to discover that Danny
      is the champion of the world.

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    3. Danny is a 9 year old boy who thinks his dad is the best dad is the world,
      but does he know that his dad is holding a big secret? Read the story and find out what the big dark secret is and read the amazing story is.

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    4. Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous dad anyone could have.But Danny's dad has a secret that leads them to a strange adventure.For Dannys birthday his dad gets him a fireballoon and goatkart. Follow Danny and his dad to find out the secret of Danny becoming the champion of the world

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    5. Danny is a simple boy and he thinks his dad is the most stupendously fantastic dad in the whole wide world,but what Danny doesn't know is that his dad has a huge secret. This secret leads the to the most daring thing of all time!!!
      Read on and discover if Danny becomes THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD?!

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    6. Danny's father has a DEEP DARK SECRET!!!! Danny has not found out about it yet.
      Danny loves his father no matter what happens to him. He will always love his father.

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    7. Danny lives with his dad in an old red,yellow and blue gipsy caravan.Dannys dad works in a petrol station near their caravan. What Danny doesn't know is that his dad has a big secret will Danny find out what the big secret?

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    8. There is a little boy called Danny how lives whith his dad but ,but Danny's dad had a very big secret!The secret leads them into a adventure of a life time.Will Danny find out and be the champion of the world

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    9. Danny loves his dad and thinks he's the most marvlous and wonderfull story teller in the whole world but Danny's dads got a very big secret will Danny find out his dad's BIG SECRET?
      When Danny was sleeping in the little old caravan His dad shuts the door and walks of WHERE DID HE GO?

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    10. A fantastic story based on a little boy called Danny who thinks he has the most amazing dad in the whole wild world but does he know his dad's deep dark secret.

      Will his dad's secert lead them in to bad or good...

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    11. Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous dad in the whole world Danny thinks he says the best stories.One day Danny finds out that his dad has a secret but what could it be?

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    12. This book is about a little boy called Danny and he thinks he has the most marvelous and exciting dad in the whole intire world . Danny and his dad live in a old red , yellow and blue caravan in the country .Danny's dad owns his own filling station beside the caravan BUT what Danny doesn't know is that his dad has a DEEP DARK SECRET and his deep dark secret leeds them both into trouble .

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    13. A nine year old boy called Danny thinks his dad is an excellent father who means the world to him.When Danny was a few months old his mother died.So his father was left to look after him.
      Danny's dad has a deep dark SECRET! Will Danny find out .The secret leads them to the adventure of their life that makes Danny the CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.

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    14. Danny thinks that his dad is the best dad that anybody could have but what Danny does not know that his dad has a BIG SECRET?...

      This secret leads Danny and his dad to a wired dimension.WHERE DID THEY GO?...
















































































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    15. Danny loves his dad he thinks his dad is the most marvellous and wonderful story teller in the world his dad has a secret will Danny find out his dads BIG SECRET ?
      Danny was asleep in the bunk bed in the caravan and his dad walks of some where WHERE DID HE GO ...

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    16. Danny is adamant that he has the best and most marvellous father a boy could ever have,but how will Danny react when he wakes up and his father is gone!
      I think that Danny's father has some explaining to do after this has left Danny quite puzzled. Read on to find out what the Huge secret is.....

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    17. Danny thinks his dad is amazing and the most best dad a child could ever have. But when Danny wakes up is his father gone? Is Danny's scared dose he know what will happen ! He is soon to find out his dads deep dark secret what will happen or where will it end ...

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    18. Danny thinks his father is the best father ever. His father is a mechanic. But he has a big secret that Danny is about to find out. The secret could change their lives forever…

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