Year 5 English · Reading non-fiction: retrieving, summarising and fact or opinion · Summary
Year 5 English Reading non-fiction: retrieving, summarising and fact or opinion: summary and key words
Part of the Year 5 English reading non-fiction: retrieving, summarising and fact or opinion chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page
Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| Text types | A report gives facts; an explanation says how or why; instructions say how to do something; a recount tells what happened. |
| Retrieving information | Find the key words, scan the text, and write short notes in your own words. |
| Summarising | Find the main idea of each paragraph; leave out examples and repeated detail. |
| Glossaries and dictionaries | A glossary gives meanings of key words; a dictionary gives more words, spellings and word classes. |
| Fact, opinion and bias | A fact can be checked; an opinion is a view; bias pushes the reader to one side. |
Can you…?
- I can name a text type and its purpose
- I can retrieve and note information from a text and a table
- I can summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph
- I can use a glossary or a dictionary to check meaning
- I can tell fact from opinion, and find bias
- I can give reasons in a short discussion
Key terms
- report
- a non-fiction text that gives facts about a topic
- explanation
- a text that tells how or why something happens
- recount
- a text that tells what happened, in order
- glossary
- a list of key words and meanings at the back of a book
- fact
- a statement that can be checked and proved true or false
- bias
- when a writer favours one side and uses loaded words to push the reader