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Teach me: telling apart a newspaper report from expository writing
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to tell a newspaper report apart from exposit
Discuss: how a report and an expository piece target their audience
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Teach me: reading prose for characters, setting and plot
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Teach me: working out word meaning from context
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Practise: guessing word meaning from context in a short text
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Quiz me: mood, tone and audience in a short passage
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Teach me: reading a news report for key information
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a news report to find out what happen
Practise: summarising a news report in my own words
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Teach me: skimming a text for gist and finding topic sentences
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Teach me: naming home and family words for narrative writing
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Writing task: a short narrative about my home or family
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Practise: editing a text for paragraphing and punctuation
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Writing task: summarising a short passage in a few sentences
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Teach me: building a short story around key characters
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Writing task: a short story with a clear problem and setting
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Writing task: a descriptive piece about a place or event
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Quiz me: meanings of key words from a passage
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Teach me: spelling and related word forms
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Practise: changing a word into a different part of speech
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Teach me: words that link ideas in a speech or summary
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