Year 5 English · Reading fiction: summarising and comparing · Summary
Year 5 English Reading fiction: summarising and comparing: summary and key words
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Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| Legend | A traditional-style story that explains something, often with magic. |
| Fable | A short story with animals or characters who teach a moral lesson. |
| Theme | An important idea in a story, such as courage or pride. |
| Comparing | Look at characters, settings and plots, and say what is the same and what is different. |
| Inference | Work out what the author does not say, and give evidence from the text. |
| Summary | The main events in order, in a few sentences, leaving out small details. |
Can you…?
- I can name the features of a legend and a fable
- I can find themes and say what a story teaches
- I can compare characters, settings and plots in two stories
- I can infer how a character feels, with evidence
- I can predict what happens next and summarise a story
Key terms
- legend
- a traditional kind of story that may explain how something came to be
- fable
- a short story, often with animals, that teaches a moral lesson
- theme
- an important idea that runs through a story
- inference
- a conclusion the reader reaches from clues in the text
- evidence
- the words in the text that support an idea
- summary
- a short account of the main events of a text