<p> Target: Clarify - checking that a text makes sense, demonstrating understanding through discussion and exploring the meaning of words in context</p><p>Check the meaning of any words you do not understand. Use a dictionary or the internet. Write down the meaning of the word.</p><p> 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.</p><p>Create 5 literal questions about the text you have just read for someone else to answer. Questions could begin What…? Where….? Who…? When….?</p><p> 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.</p><p>Create 5 inferential questions about the text for someone to answer. Questions could begin Why….? How can you tell…? Explain….</p><p> 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.</p><p>Write 5 True or False statements about the text for someone else to check. They should identify whether the statements are true or false.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Predict what might happen from details stated and implied</p><p>Predict what might happen next based on what you have just read. Explain why you have made this prediction using the word because.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader</p><p>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? </p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Recommend books that they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices</p><p>Write a letter to a friend recommending the book you have read. Refer to plot, characters and setting.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion</p><p>Identify statements which are fact and statements which are opinion in a persuasive text.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Summarise the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas</p><p>Write down the most important thing that happened in the chapter. Try to use just one sentence.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction</p><p>Read a non-fiction text and make a list of ten new things you have learnt. </p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Recognise themes in what they read, such as good over evil, loss or heroism.</p><p>Do you think there is a message or moral within the story? What does the author want the reader to think about or understand? </p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Compare characters, settings, themes and other aspects of texts.</p><p>Compare two characters from the text: * How are these characters connected? * How are they similar? * How are they different?</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning</p><p>Look at a non- fiction text. * Is bold used anywhere? Why? * Are pictures used? Why? * Are bullet points, tables or charts used? Where? Why? </p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Compare characters, settings, themes and other aspects of texts.</p><p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p>How many examples of the following can you find within this text? </p><p>*Analogy (Simile/Metaphor) * Imagery * Personification * Onomatopoeia * Alliteration * Repetition for effect </p><p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p> 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</p><p>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.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk Target: Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence</p><p>Explain what a character is thinking or how they might be feeling at different parts of the story. Provide evidence to support your views.</p><p> 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.</p><p>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</p><p> 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</p><p>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.</p><p> www.primarytexts.co.uk</p>