Reading skills
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Reading strategies checklist | ||
A handy checklist for active reading strategies. Perfect for encouraging wider reading. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 19/10/2012 | |||
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Text deconstruction - a help sheet | ||
Useful prompts to guide students through deconstructing a text. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 19/08/2011 | |||
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Fact or opinion? | ||
Get back to basics with facts and opinions. Students discuss examples and build up to writing short pieces of their own. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 22/07/2011 | |||
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Following instructions | ||
A classic test that challenges students' ability to follow instructions. They need to read the instructions carefully in order to succeed! | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 15/10/2010 | |||
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What sort of language? | ||
Students define different styles of language (e.g. poetic, emotive etc.) and then match each term to the examples provided. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 10/09/2010 | |||
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The key to a good blurb | ||
Focus on the language used in an autobiography's ‘blurb’ (Ishmael Beah's 'A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier') in order to appreciate ways in which a writer can grab and hold our attention. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 02/10/2009 | |||
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Textual organisers | ||
A really versatile way to look at organisational features such as: title, subtitle, font, size of font, illustrations, photos, graphs, etc. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 22/05/2009 | |||
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Quick match up | ||
This works well as a starter and is ideal for easing students in to writing a book review. Identify the text type of 5 book-themed extracts. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 01/05/2009 | |||
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The rats grew bolder... | ||
A starter focusing on how effective writers create meaning. Teacher notes on page 2. Also provides a taster for a good read ('Down and Out in Paris and London'.) | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 10/10/2008 | |||
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Adrian Mole's new year | ||
Unjumble the opening to 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole', with our interactive jigsaw puzzle, Choptalk . | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 07/01/2008 | |||
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Book reviews | ||
Children investigate a variety of children's stories as part of a preparation or research project. Variety of books required! (Best on A3 paper.) | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 20/07/2007 | |||
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The Da Vinci Code - the opening |
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Focus on the writer's use of language with this cloze activity and accompanying questions. Great for Y9. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/06/2007 | |||
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Opening hooks | ||
Discuss the different hooks used in this selection of story openings. The Whizzy file is a 3-way matching task using Flash - identify the title and author for each opening. | |||
| KS3 | Prose Published: 08/06/2007 | |||
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Reading paper levels 5, 6 and 7 - moving through the gears! | ||
Strategies for ensuring answers are concise and analytical. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 21/04/2006 | |||
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Whose theme is it anyway? |
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An activity to explore key themes in any text and how discussion contributes to the creation of knowledge. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 08/07/2005 | |||
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PEE Mobile |
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Create mobiles highlighting how a PEE chain works. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 24/06/2005 | |||
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Analysing an opening chapter | ||
We think this is useful for its close textual analysis frame. Would work well on an interactive whiteboard. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 18/11/2004 | |||
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Close reading techniques: descriptive writing extracts |
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A focus on close reading and language, using extracts from a range of texts. Useful. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 09/11/2004 | |||
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Book response |
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A guide for writing a book review. The original resource is followed by a differentiated version for use with students with SEN. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 25/05/2004 | |||
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The PEE chain | ||
A handy poster-style guide to POINT-EXAMPLE-EXPLAIN. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 25/03/2003 | |||
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Author profile | ||
A simple sheet to help students record what they find out about an author. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/06/2001 | |||
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7 golden rules for reading comprehensions |
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| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/01/2001 | |||
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Reading poems - teacher notes | ||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/11/2000 | |||
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How to write a book review |
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A comprehensive list of questions to consider when writing a book review. The original resource is followed by a differentiated version for use with students with SEN. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/11/2000 | |||
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What is character? | ||
Use 'character wheels' to write character descriptions. Structured and user friendly. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/09/2000 | |||
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Tortoise book review: complete the tortoise's shell! | ||
A Teachit oldie! | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/01/2000 | |||
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