Literacy Year 5/6

Week beginning 18th May 2020

Reading

Comprehension

Lesson 1

• Read the information text

about The Battle of

Largs.

• Create a glossary for this

text containing at least 8

words. Here are 2 to get

you started...

raiding invade.

Write a summary of

the text using no

more than 30 words.

Lesson 2

Comprehension

Questions

• Answer these questions in your book.

• If you have been able to print the text off highlight the parts of the text that you have used to find evidence for your answers.

• Make sure you give reasons for your answers.

• Remember the power of because.

Lesson 3

• In this lesson you will write some questions based on The Battle of Largs for someone else to answer. You can get someone at home to answer them or even send them to your teacher!

Remember to ask:

• Retrieval questions – your reader needs to find information in the text;

• Inference questions - your reader has to work something out;

• Prediction questions - your reader has to predict what might happen;

• Vocabulary questions – you reader has to explain the meaning of certain words.

Lesson 4 - MyOn• Today, we’d like to you to read

either 'The Wind in the Willows'

or 'The Teacher Who Forgot Too

Much'.

• The project will be live from

Thursday until Sunday, so please

make sure you have a look!

• You can use the audio or not, it's

up to you.

• One of these texts has a quiz thatyou can complete at the end too!

Lesson 5 - MyOn• Based on the book(s) that you

read yesterday, we would like to

you complete the second part of

the project (see your MyOn

projects).