Year Five Comprehension: Victorian Thief

Tonight's comprehension gives you the opportunity to revise summarising a passage using Bald Worm's annotation techniques

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Due: Wednesday

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Year Five Comprehension: Annotate, annotate, annotate!

In class we've been revising the importance of completing the following tasks every time we attempt an 11+ comprehension paper:
* Underline the key words
* Summarise the paragraphs
* Annotate the passage with question numbers - find the evidence!

Task: Please complete the 'Tell Me No More Lies' comprehension.

(P.S. The Bald Worm Comprehension site is down at the moment due to technical difficulties, so don't try visiting http://bit.ly/comprehension for the next week! Thanks!)

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Year Five Comprehension: Continuing to Think About Annotating

1. Please complete the comprehension. Don't forget to annotate the passage as neatly as possible.

Due: Wednesday.

2. On Wednesday we'll be undertaking some timed writing. Look again at Improving Your Writing on the pupil wiki.

Note: Tomorrow is DT day, so we'll have our spelling test on Thursday.

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Year Five Comprehension: Annotating a Passage

We have been learning all about annotating a passage by:
1. Writing a summary of each paragraph
2. Writing the question numbers on the passage

Don't forget you can revise this by listening to my teacher podcast at http://bit.ly/comprehension.

Task: Please complete the 'Blitzcat' comprehension

Year 5 Comprehension - Annotating the Passage

L.O. To annotate a passage with question numbers.

We've been learning all about annotating a passage.

1. Revise this work by listening to the annotation podcast.

2. Please complete the 'Henry Sugar comprehension. Don't forget to quote from the passage.