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EAL reading comprehension activity structure
http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html
UKS2 Poetry Booklet
One poem per half term for year 5 and 6 children.
The poems have been selected to represent a diverse range of poets as well as a range of poetic techniques.
Poems could be chosen to link to particular units of work. As such, some of the poems listed here for year 5 might be taught in year 6, and vice versa.
Year 5:
Caged Bird – Maya Angelou (personification, verses, metaphor, repetition, theme, context, anthropomorphism)
Eldorado – Edgar Allan Poe (verses, rhyming couplets, alliteration, structure, archaic language, narrative)
From A Railway Carriage – RL Stephenson (narrative, verses, simile, structure rhyming couplets, rhythm, onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition)
In Flanders Field – John McCrae (rhyme, alliteration, rhyming couplets, narrative, verses, meter, historic)
The Night Is Darkening Round Me – Emily Bronte (rhyme, theme, structure, verses, historic, meter)
What is Pink? – Christina Rosetti (rhyme, rhythm, meter, repetition)
Year 6:
Be Very Afraid! – Carol Ann Duffy (figurative, repetition, free verse, alliteration, punctuation, humour)
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud – William Wordsworth (rhyme, verses, historic, simile, metaphor, meter)
If – Rudyard Kipling (verses, historic, repletion, rhyme, theme)
The British – Benjamin Zephaniah (some rhyme, assonance, repetition)
Unfolding Bud – Naoshi Koriyama (verses)
Where The Mind Is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore (alliteration, rhythm, some rhyme)
Veyron Vs. Venom - compare and contrast text
A very boy-friendly compare and contrast text about supercars which can be used in a transition unit at the end of year 6.
An HMI inspector was very impressed that children were being taught how to compare and contrast as this is the basis of many secondary school and university essays.
The structure of this one is simple: intro, similarities, differences, conclusion.
Long Sentences to Convert into Short Sentences
Short sentences are used to build tension and describe fast action sequences. This short piece of text would be better written in short sentences and can be used in various ways to encourage children to use this technique.
Feel free to use in as creative a way as you can!
The Boy in the Dress Reading Activity
A reading resource for a David Walliams excerpt made using an EAL reading comprehension structure: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html
With its colour-coding and symbols it also links to my Reading Roles: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/reading-roles-cognitive-domains-made.html - a way of making the cognitive domains memorable for staff and children.
Questions for 1st section of Wonder by RJ Palacio
Many of these questions have been written using this technique: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html and some of them draw on ideas from Rhoda Wilson: https://misswilsonsays.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/moving-beyond-reading-comprehension-sheets/
Hitler's Canary Supporting Non-Fiction Texts
A range of non-fiction resources to support understanding of key themes and events in Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig.
The sets of questions named by the book's chapters are based on the book and not non-fiction texts.
Fantasy Fiction resources
Including excerpts from:
The Hobbit
Harry Potter
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Covering work on setting description, building tension, using verbs, figurative language.
Mountains Reading Comprehension Activities
Linked to Reading Roles (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-a-way-to-help-children-remember-the-areas-of-the-content-domain-ks1-and-ks2-11416334)
Based on the following books/poems:
Habitat Survival: Mountains by Melanie Waldron
Everest by Sangma Francis
Rivers and Mountains by Joanna Brundle
Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan
Unfolding Bud by Naoshi Koriyama
Picture Book Reading Challenges
2 simple grids with 20 different things per grid to find in picture books
2 more simple grids containing alphabet challenges
Guy Fawkes Biography
We used this as a Talk 4 Writing text.
PowerPoint to Introduce SPAG/GPS SATs Test
PowerPoint to introduce SPAG/GPS SATs Test on Tuesday 10th May 2016 - run down of the question types.
Should Schools Close on Snowy Days? Discussion Text Example
A WAGOLL resource (based on a Talk For Writing piece) for a discussion text. Two different structures are provided.
Tour De France-Themed Maths Investigation
Differentiated 3 ways.
encourages application of mathematical facts and strategies.
Build-a-bike from a choice of parts using a budget (costs left blank so can be differentiated for groups).
Literacy - write an explanation for why they have chosen the parts.
Includes percentages and averages and inference/AF3 work for Literacy/reading.
One of the maths resources can be found in this document under Maths B46:
http://cycle.yorkshire.com/documents/tdf/legacy/EducationPacks/TDF-EducationResourcePack-SectionB.pdf
Formal and Informal Writing
A couple of texts - one a news report about a Tsunami written informally to be converted into formal language, the other a formal letter (not a complaint, or persuasive) outlining views on a fictional matter.
Scaffolding Inference - a technique to help children to infer meaning from texts
Condensed from http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html
This is an explanation of on easy questioning technique to build children's understanding of what they are reading, focusing particularly on inference and how inference can be supported by vocabulary knowledge and information retrieval skills.
The symbols/colours are linked to: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-a-way-to-help-children-remember-the-cognitive-domains-ks1-and-ks2-11416334
Peloponnesian War Eyewitness Account/Recount (Soldier's Perspective)
A informal, 'chatty' eyewitness account of the Peloponnesian War. Suitable to use during a topic on The Ancient Greeks.
We used this as a Talk 4 Writing Text.
Francis transcript and shorter transcript
To be used with Richard Hickey's 'Francis' short film.
http://www.literacyshed.com/the-ghostly-shed.html
https://vimeo.com/84786815
The original script is written by novelist & screenwriter Dave Eggers and the original transcript was taken from http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/transcript
I rewrote the transcript to make it shorter so that it could be used as a Talk 4 Writing text.
Birthday Boy Short Film Spy Report
This spy report is a fictional report based on the short film Birthday Boy which can be found on youtube.
Questions for Wonder by RJ Palacio (Via's section)
These questions are colour-coded and linked to symbols from my Reading Roles and some follow my scaffolding inference technique:
http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/scaffolding-inference-trialling.html