Showing posts with label summarising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summarising. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Year Five Comprehension: Victorian Thief



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

Missing out? Download a copy from box.net here.

Due: Wednesday

(Image by Benjamin Forrest; used under Creative Commons agreement. Please note that the gentleman in the picture is not a thief!)

Monday, 22 March 2010

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!)

(Image by orangeacid; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

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

Sunday, 20 April 2008

Year 5 Comprehension Homework - Summarising Paragraphs



In class we revised how to summarising a passage paragraph-by-paragraph.

Homework: Please complete the 'Shop Girl' comprehension passage. Click here for useful links and downloads from our pupil wiki.