Interactive Reading Activities and Resources for May 7, 2020
Engage in a variety of reading activities and resources including a presentation, listening to a daily chapter, vocabulary exercises, and in-depth text analysis. Explore intriguing reads on a recommended website and enhance your predictive skills. Dive into a captivating excerpt from "Street Child" by Berlie Doherty and practice inference, prediction, vocabulary exploration, and summarization.
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We are Readers! Thursday 7thMay 2020 Contact us on twitter https://twitter.com/ FvaYr5 Session 4 Go through the presentation and complete reading activities as you go. Listen to Miss Cerepanova s daily chapter on YouTube https://www.youtub e.com/playlist?list=P L6buUpxdolSpeCVRI XgywU2DRCED9bue 0 E-mail me on: misscerepanova@outlook.com
Visit this website for some thrilling reads! https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
We are learning to predict. Vocabulary (thinking about the choices (often language) made by the author/director/artist) V I Inference: Interpreting information Prediction based on existing proof, evidence or background information P E Explaining new vocabulary or events R Retrieving information Summarising ideas from more than one paragraph S
Review 1. Read the text carefully from start to finish. I think that 2. Use the speaking frame to help you order your ideas and to help you write your answers. I think this because In the text it says 3. There is no right or wrong answer as long as you have used the evidence from the text to prove why you think it. It is a reasonable prediction because
Warm-up What kind of book is this? How can you tell? Based on the clues on the front cover, would you enjoy reading this book? What is going to happen in this book? Where is it going to be set?
Read the text and answer the questions Jim forced his fists deep in his pockets and turned his face away. There were boys all around him, shuffling out to the cold yard, and they blurred into smudges of grey. He screwed up his eyes against the terrible blinding white of the sky. He wouldn t cry here. His lungs were bursting and he thought he would never be able to gasp for air again, but he couldn t cry here. The only person he wanted to be with was Rosie. She would know what to do. She would tell Emily and Lizzie. But there was no chance of being with Rosie. I want to go home, he said. Joseph swung his head and spat. Home? he said. What d youmean, home? What s this, if it ain thome? So Jim thought, this is my home now, this huge building with iron bars at the window and iron railings outside. His parents must be Mr and Mrs Sissons, as thin and waxy pale as candles. And if they were his parents then his brothers and sisters were the shambling, skinny boys who slept and sobbed in the same room as him, and the scrawny girls who seemed to have forgotten how to smile. I think that I think this because In the text it says It is a reasonable prediction because Extract from Street Child by Berlie Doherty
Read the text and answer the questions I think that 1.Using the whole extract, where do you think Jim has ended up? Use evidence from the text to justify your answer. I think this because 2.How might Jim feel about being where he is? Use evidence from the text to justify your answer. In the text it says 3.Do you think Jim and Joseph might become friends? Give reasons for your answer. It is a reasonable prediction because Possible Answers: 1.Examples: prison, jail, workhouse, orphanage 2.Examples: frightened, terrified, sad, scared, emotional 3. Examples: Yes, they are in the workhouse together so would be feeling the same. No, You can tell from the text that Joseph is angry and upset. He swung his head and spat. Perhaps he doesn t want to make friends.
