{"id":16821,"date":"2015-03-27T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=16821"},"modified":"2015-03-27T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:18:49","slug":"reader-beware-you-are-in-for-a-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/reader-beware-you-are-in-for-a-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Beware &#8211; you are in for a Scare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"16823\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/reader-beware-you-are-in-for-a-scare\/attachment\/horror_stories\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horror_stories.gif?fit=198%2C260\" data-orig-size=\"198,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"horror_stories\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horror_stories.gif?fit=198%2C260\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horror_stories.gif?fit=198%2C260\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16823\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/horror_stories.gif?resize=198%2C260\" alt=\"horror_stories\" width=\"198\" height=\"260\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Writing to entertain: Horror Stories<\/p>\n<p>Year 6 recently studied Roald Dahl\u2019s short story: The Landlady. A story filled with mystery, intrigue and suspense. The story ends on a cliff-hanger and the reader is left wondering what will or could happen next. In Year 6 we considered how the story might continue. Planning out our ideas we got busy writing the sequel to this tale.<\/p>\n<p>Please look out for the following features in our writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Structure: start, middle and conclusion;<\/li>\n<li>Paragraphing;<\/li>\n<li>Short sentences to build suspense;<\/li>\n<li>Demanding vocabulary;<\/li>\n<li>Characterisation;<\/li>\n<li>Figurative language features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We dare you to read a selection of our stories! Click on &#8216;read more&#8217; below to\u00a0 see them &#8211; we hope you enjoy them!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read this first if you are unfamiliar with the story &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/the-landlady-synopsis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Synopsis of The Landlady<\/a><\/p>\n<p>then read the sequels below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yr-6-horror-story-whispers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Whispers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yr-6-horror-story-the-basement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Basement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yr-6-horror-story-inch-by-inch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Inch-by-Inch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yr-6-horror-story-the-biggest-mistake-ever-made.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Biggest Mistake Ever Made<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yr-6-horror-story-the-attempt-to-escape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Attempt to Escape<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out further amazing stories in the Year 6 room &#8211; some of which were just <em>too<\/em> scary to post online!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing to entertain: Horror Stories Year 6 recently studied Roald Dahl\u2019s short story: The Landlady. A story filled with mystery, intrigue and suspense. The story ends on a cliff-hanger and the reader is left wondering what will or could happen next. In Year 6 we considered how the story might continue. Planning out our ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16821"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17130,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions\/17130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}