Everyday Reading The Stone Age The Stone Age

Everyday Reading: The Stone Age

The Stone Age • Read through the text silently to yourself and underline any words you do not understand. • In Year 6, you should be able to read around 90 words per minute, so this text should take you approximately six minutes. • Now we will read the page through all together out loud.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary • Words you may not know: • referred • defined • crude • exception • domestic • ancestor • species • progressed • considered • archaeologists • roughly • sacred • nomadic • time-consuming • remains (the noun) • ornate • landscape • dairy • considerably Look up the words that are in your House colour: fill in your guesses and then their meanings on the Everyday Reading Vocabulary sheet. When you have finished your House’s words, pick more words to look up the meanings.

Word of the Week: to consider • Let’s complete a Vocabulary Meaning Tree for the word ‘consider’.

Grammar • Find the adverbial phrases (two or more words that are NOT verbs) that start sentences in the text. • You should find six. • What piece of punctuation separates the adverbial phrase from the rest of the sentence? • Think back to our lesson on TRa. MP adverbial phrases. • T = Time R = Reason M = Manner P = Place. • What type of adverbial phrases are they?

Grammar • By that point = time • During this period = time • 500, 000 years ago = time • 16, 000 years ago = time • By the Mesolithic age = time • During this time = time

Complete the question sheet. See the next two slides for full answers to VIPERS questions I and E.

Retrieval Focus Answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Doggerland 500, 000 years ago. Paleolithic people. Cattle, sheep or pigs. Rivers were sacred.

VIPERS Answers: I – see next slide V – a lot of change = considerably V – not finished to a high standard = crude E – see next slide S – Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic

Practice Inference Question Modelled answer that would gain full marks: Where do you think Paleolithic people sheltered? What tells you this?

Modelled answer: I think the Paleolithic people sheltered in caves. I know this because the text says, “Any remains from this period are often found in caves. ” This means that the remains of what they used to wear, sleep on and cook with etc were found in caves. Answer it Prove it Explain it (APE)

Practice Explain Question Modelled answer that would gain full marks: The author has used brackets in this text. What impact does this have on the reader?

Modelled answer: The author has used brackets in order to provide an explanation of Tier 3 technical vocabulary. For example, “…homo sapiens (modern humans). . . ” The impact on the reader is that we have been given this extra information and these definitions in a very clear way in the brackets. Answer it Prove it Explain it (APE)