Starter quiz
- What type of text is a biography?
- non-fiction ✓
- poetry
- fiction
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- What does a biography text tell you about?
- what is going to happen in the future
- the story of a significant person's life ✓
- a made-up story
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- What order is a biography written in?
- random order
- going backwards in time
- chronological order ✓
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- Match the vocabulary to the correct definition.
- significant figure⇔a person who has done something important in our world ✓
- activist⇔a person who takes action to change something in our world ✓
- suffrage⇔the right to vote in political elections ✓
- Why is Emmeline Pankhurst a significant figure in history?
- she was an activist for women's right to vote ✓
- she was born in Manchester
- she enjoyed reading
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- Which of the following adjectives best describes Emmeline Pankhurst?
- shy
- unkind
- brave ✓
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Exit quiz
- Why is it important to re-read a text?
- so you can remember the entire thing by heart
- it supports with reading fluency and understanding of the text ✓
- it is fun
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- When retelling key events, I should ...
- include every detail from the text.
- pick out the important information in chronological order. ✓
- start at the end of the text.
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- What does the word 'suffrage' mean?
- the right to vote in political elections ✓
- the right to suffer
- the right to be angry
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- Match the word to the word it can be found within.
- suffrage⇔Suffragette ✓
- fair⇔unfairly ✓
- act⇔activist ✓
- When I am retrieving important information from a text, I should ...
- read the entire text again.
- search the text for keywords from the question. ✓
- try and remember the important information.
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- Why is retrieving key information from a text important?
- it helps to build a greater understanding of the whole text ✓
- it helps to remember everything
- it is the easiest thing to do
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- It is useful to pick out the important parts when retelling a story
- Re-reading a text helps to build fluency and understanding
- Searching for a "word within a word" is a strategy to understand words
- Retrieving key information helps to build greater understanding of a story
Common misconception
I only need to read a story once to understand it.
Often stories have lots of new vocabulary and important information. Re-reading a story helps us with fluency and greater understanding.
Keywords
Information - facts learned about something or someone
Biography - a non-fiction text written about someone's life
Activist - a person who takes action to change something in our world
Suffrage - the right to vote in political elections
Chronological - following the order in which a series of events happened
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