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Quiz me: identifying topic sentences in paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the topic sentence in each paragrap
Teach me: telling main points from supporting points in a text
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Discuss: interpreting a short story or passage
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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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Discuss: characters, plot and quotes in a set text extract
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Teach me: identifying a writer's mood, tone and purpose
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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
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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: features of narrative writing
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Give me feedback on: a short narrative I write
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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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Teach me: why and how to summarise a text
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Writing task: summarising a short passage in a few sentences
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Teach me: describing directions from a map
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Writing task: writing instructions to get from school to my house
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