Year 6 Reading Activities Week commencing Monday 8

Year 6 Reading Activities Week commencing: Monday 8 th June 2020. There are three texts for you to read. Each text has some reading activities for you to complete. Once you have completed the activity, check your answers on the following Power. Point slide. You can complete these three tasks at any point during the week. We would love to see your learning so please email it to yearsix@reptonmanor. kent. sch. uk

Text 1

Text 1

Text 1

Text 1

Questions for text 1 Remember to refer back to the text to help you. 1. How many laps of his garden did Captain Tom walk each day? 2. Read ‘the Challenge. ’ Find and copy one word that likens the struggle of NHS staff during the COVID 19 crisis to that of soldiers in a war. 3. What does NHS stand for? 4. How do you think Captain Tom felt when he received his Pride of Britain award? Explain your answer. 5. Give two examples of how Captain Tom has broken world records. 6. Describe Captain Tom in three words and explain your choices. 7. How do you think Captain Tom felt when he heard that he had reached his target of £ 1000 in just a day? Explain your answer.

Answers for text 1 1. How many laps of his garden did Captain Tom walk each day? 10 2. Read ‘the Challenge. ’ Find and copy one word that likens the struggle of NHS staff during the COVID 19 crisis to that of soldiers in a war. battle 3. What does NHS stand for? National Health Service 4. How do you think Captain Tom felt when he received his Pride of Britain award? Explain your answer. Responses such as: He felt proud to receive the award. He was humbled that so many people had voted for him. 5. Give two examples of how Captain Tom has broken world records. He is the oldest person ever to have a number one single. His single is the fastest selling of 2020 so far. 6. Describe Captain Tom in three words and explain your choices. Responses such as: Determined because he didn’t give up. Brave because he was a soldier in the war. Generous because he raised money for charity. 7. How do you think Captain Tom felt when he heard that he had reached his target of £ 1000 in just a day? Explain your answer. Responses such as: He must have felt proud that he had raised so much money. He would have been amazed that so any people had donated to his cause. He could not believe that he had reached his target so quickly.

Text 2

Questions for text 2 Remember to refer back to the text to help you. 1. Who is ‘he’ in the poem? 2. What do we call the device we use to give human characteristics to something that isn’t human? Can you find two examples of this in the poem? 3. How many rhyming couplets are there in the poem? 4. Why is the way the shadow grows ‘not at all like proper children’? 5. What do you think the word ‘notion’ means on line 9? 6. Who does the narrator mean when using the word ‘nursie’?

Answers for text 2 1. Who is ‘he’ in the poem? ‘He’ is the narrator’s shadow. 2. What do we call the device we use to give human characteristics to something that isn’t human? Can you find two examples of this in the poem? Personification. Responses such as: ‘He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head. ’ ‘And I see him jump before me…’ ‘The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow’ ‘For he sometimes shoots up taller…’ ‘He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play. ’ etc. 3. How many rhyming couplets are there in the poem? There are eight rhyming couplets. 4. Why is the way the shadow grows ‘not at all like proper children’? Children grow slowly whereas the shadow sometimes shoots up taller or gets so little that there’s none of him at all. This is because when the sun is high in the sky, your shadow appears shorter and when the sun is low in the sky, your shadow is longer. 5. What do you think the word ‘notion’ means on line 9? Clue or idea. 6. Who does the narrator mean when using the word ‘nursie’? The narrator is referring to someone who takes care of the children such as a nanny or a babysitter.

Text 3

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Text 3

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Text 3

Questions for text 3 Remember to refer back to the text to help you. 1. Look at the first three paragraphs. Find evidence from two different paragraphs to show that Pa is suffering from poor health? 2. Look at the paragraph beginning ‘The village school…’. Find and copy a word which means ‘machines’ or ‘inventions’? 3. In what ways does Sabryna take responsibility for her family? Give evidence to support your answer. 4. 5.

Answers for text 3 1. Look at the first three paragraphs. Find evidence from two different paragraphs to show that Pa is suffering from poor health? ‘Pa complained of the aches in his back and the tingles in his toes. ’ ‘Since Pa had injured his back. . ’ 2. Look at the paragraph beginning ‘The village school…’. Find and copy a word which means ‘machines’ or ‘inventions’? contraptions 3. In what ways does Sabryna take responsibility for her family? Give evidence to support your answer. Any three of the following – she cooks breakfast for the family she reminds the little ones to bow their heads. She walks the children to school. She tells the children to work hard. She works as a laundress to earn money. 4. 5. 3 2 4 5 1