Year 6 Latymer Upper-style Comprehension Paper: Trapped

This week we have been looking at answering Latymer Upper-style questions about the different types of sentences/words used in the passage.

Weekend homework: Please complete the 'Trapped' comprehension. We'll go through this on Monday.

P.S. Good luck to those girls sitting the St. Paul's pre-test (which does not count towards the final mark this year) on Monday! Break a leg!

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Latymer Upper-style Comprehension Paper: Dracula

Homework
Please complete the Latymer Upper-style paper in just 40 minutes. Time yourself using the online stopwatch.

Due: Thursday.

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11+ Comprehension Year 5 and 6 November 16th 2009

Click on my P-E-E prezi whenever you need to revise the key skill of P-E-Eing all over the page!
(The Prezi above is an example of using technology - in this case, a cool PowerPoint - to help learners remember key skills. )

Year Five
Please complete the D-Day comprehension, paying particular attention to the questions about the author's use of similes. Use this simile prezi to help:

Due: Wednesday

P.S. Don't forget the spelling test tomorrow, and you need to have learnt the words to the comma song, too!

Year Six
Please complete the Latymer-style 'Body in the Library' paper. Remember to be specific when discussing the 'type of sentences' the author uses.

Due: Wednesday

Year 6: Comprehension (Monday, 8th December 2008)

L.O. To revise the use of P-E-E in longer mark questions

It is the last 11+ comprehension paper of the term! Please complete the 'Alice in Wonderland' Latymer-style comprehension.

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Due: Wednesday

Don't forget their is all the advice you need on answering comprehension questions, and helpful podcasts, at Bald Worm's comprehension blog, http://bit.ly/comprehension

Year 6 - Latymer-Style Comprehension: Trapped!

We've been studying Gothic stories. Why not have fun this weekend reading a fun young teen gothic novel like The Golem's Eye, Century or one of Darren Shan's Vampire novels?

Weekend homework:
1. Please complete the Latymer-Style 'Trapped!' paper; give yourself 40 minutes. Don't forget you can get loads of advice at Bald Worm's comprehension site.

2. Don't forget your verbal reasoning paper.

Due: Monday

Year 6 - Latymer-Style Comprehension: Count Dracula

Please complete the Latymer Upper-style Count Dracula paper under timed conditions - give yourself 5 minutes reading time, and 40 minutes for answering the questions. Don't forget you can get loads of advice on this style of paper at Bald Worm's comprehension blog, http://bit.ly/comprehension

Download another copy of this comprehension from my box at box.net

Due: Thursday

Year 6 - Latymer-Style Comprehension

This week we are going to focus on Latymer-style comprehensions. Latymer's comprehension paper is divided into two parts:
Understanding, with questions about the events and characters in the passage, and
Comment and Analysis, where you have to study the author's prose style.

Take this opportunity to revise the questions about prose style and an author's technique at Bald Worm's comprehension blog, http://bit.ly/comprehension.

Task: Please complete the Agatha Christie Latymer-style comprehension. Not sure about one of the questions? Go onto http://bit.ly/comprehension

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Due: Tuesday.

Learn more about Agatha Christie here.