Starter quiz
- True or false? In the build-up, Pod takes Arrietty on her first borrowing expedition.
- True ✓
- False
- What does it mean to summarise?
- to retell a story in detail
- to pull out the key information and ideas from a text ✓
- to uncover hidden messages or meaning
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- What is the purpose of the build-up?
- It resolves the problem.
- It introduces the setting and characters.
- It builds action and suspense leading up to the climax. ✓
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- What does atmosphere refer to?
- the order of events in the story
- the tone or mood created in a section or whole of a text ✓
- the feelings that a characters has
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- True or false? A character's emotions always stay the same.
- True
- False ✓
- How do we make inferences?
- retrieve them from the text
- use clues from the text ✓
- summarise the key points
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Exit quiz
- Order the events from this section of the build-up:
- 1⇔Arrietty closely watched from the clock as Pod ran to the front doormat.
- 2⇔Shortly after, Arrietty joined her father and sat on the front doorstep.
- 3⇔Arrietty spotted the grating and spoke to her mother through it.
- 4⇔While Pod went borrowing, Arrietty enjoyed the freedom of the outdoors.
- 5⇔After venturing through the grass, Arrietty happily lay by a tree.
- 6⇔Arrietty was taken aback when she spotted the eye of a human “bean”!
- What was Arrietty most fascinated by on her borrowing expedition?
- the items she could borrow
- the hallway of the house
- the outside world ✓
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- Where did Arrietty venture to when her father went borrowing?
- through the grass to the base of a tree ✓
- along the pathway to the back garden
- through the hallway to the kitchen
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- What was Arrietty taken aback by the sight of while lying by the tree?
- the voice of a human “bean”
- the eye of a human “bean” ✓
- the legs of a human “bean”
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- True or false? The atmosphere changes when Arrietty spots the eye.
- True ✓
- False
- True or false? Arrietty remains terrified of the human "bean" she encounters.
- True
- False ✓
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Key learning points
- In this section of the build-up, Arrietty explores the outside world and enjoys freedom and nature.
- The atmosphere shifts when Arrietty spots the eye of a human “bean”.
- Arrietty forms a friendship with the human “bean” this eye belongs to whose name is “Boy”.
- The atmosphere and Arrietty’s emotions change over the course of her experiences.
- We can make inferences about a character’s emotions by analysing their actions, words and expressions.
Common misconception
Some of the vocabulary and phrases in the text may be unfamiliar. This may present a barrier to comprehension, particularly during dense sections of description involving high-level vocabulary.
Make a bank of unfamiliar vocabulary from the text and provide definitions in context beforehand. E.g. looking at a primrose leaf and identifying a "furrow".
Keywords
Build-up - the building of action and suspense that leads up to the climax in a narrative
Atmosphere - the tone or mood created in a text
Emotions - strong feelings that result from a person’s circumstances, mood, or relationship with others
Inference - to use clues from the text to draw conclusions
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