Check The Meaning Of Any Words You Do Not Understand
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Target: Clarify - checking that a text makes sense, demonstrating understanding through discussion and exploring the meaning of words in context
Check the meaning of any words you do not understand. Use a dictionary or the internet. Write down the meaning of the word.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Ask questions to provide clarification and deepen understanding of a text. Construct questions related to a text for others to answer.
Create 5 literal questions about the text you have just read for someone else to answer. Questions could begin What…? Where….? Who…? When….?
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Ask questions to provide clarification and deepen understanding of a text. Construct questions related to a text for others to answer.
Create 5 inferential questions about the text for someone to answer. Questions could begin Why….? How can you tell…? Explain….
www.primarytexts.co.uk Targets: Ask questions to provide clarification and deepen understanding of a text. Construct questions related to a text for others to answer.
Write 5 True or False statements about the text for someone else to check. They should identify whether the statements are true or false.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Predict what might happen from details stated and implied
Predict what might happen next based on what you have just read. Explain why you have made this prediction using the word because.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
Find an example of figurative language in the text. Try to explain it in your own words. What does it mean? What does the author want you to imagine/think/feel?
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Recommend books that they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices
Write a letter to a friend recommending the book you have read. Refer to plot, characters and setting.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion
Identify statements which are fact and statements which are opinion in a persuasive text.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Summarise the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas
Write down the most important thing that happened in the chapter. Try to use just one sentence.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction
Read a non-fiction text and make a list of ten new things you have learnt.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Recognise themes in what they read, such as good over evil, loss or heroism.
Do you think there is a message or moral within the story? What does the author want the reader to think about or understand?
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Compare characters, settings, themes and other aspects of texts.
Compare two characters from the text: * How are these characters connected? * How are they similar? * How are they different?
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
Look at a non- fiction text. * Is bold used anywhere? Why? * Are pictures used? Why? * Are bullet points, tables or charts used? Where? Why?
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Compare characters, settings, themes and other aspects of texts.
Compare two different settings in the text. Consider how the settings are different. Think about: What is happening in each setting. How it would feel to be in each setting. What you would see, hear and smell in each setting.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Understand the technical and other terms needed for discussing what they hear and read, such as metaphor, simile, analogy, imagery, style and effect.
How many examples of the following can you find within this text?
*Analogy (Simile/Metaphor) * Imagery * Personification * Onomatopoeia * Alliteration * Repetition for effect
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Consider different accounts of the same event and discuss viewpoints (both of authors and of fictional characters), within a text and across more than one text.
Think about something important that happened in the text. List the characters involved and write down or discuss how each character felt about the event.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Consider different accounts of the same event and discuss viewpoints (both of authors and of fictional characters), within a text and across more than one text.
Compare two texts about the same subject. *Which aspect of the subject does the writer focus on? *How does the writer feel about the topic? Find evidence to support your views.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
What was your favourite and least favourite part of the story? Why? Explain your views to others and ask them to say whether they agree or disagree with you – and to explain why.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence
Explain what a character is thinking or how they might be feeling at different parts of the story. Provide evidence to support your views.
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Understand the technical and other terms needed for discussing what they hear and read, such as metaphor, simile, analogy, imagery, style and effect.
Is the style of the text: * Formal or informal in parts? * Amusing in parts or always serious? * Descriptive or straight forward and ‘to the point’? Find evidence to support your choices
www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Understand the technical and other terms needed for discussing what they hear and read, such as metaphor, simile, analogy, imagery, style and effect
Effect – Can you find examples of parts of the text where the author tried to make you: * smile or feel amused * feel sad * feel sorry for a character * build the tension * wonder what might happen next * feel scared * feel pleased /happy? How did the author try to achieve their purpose? Think about word choice, punctuation and sentence style.
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