Year 6 English · Reading fiction and plays · Summary
Year 6 English Reading fiction and plays: summary and key words
Part of the Year 6 English reading fiction and plays chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page
Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| Check the text | Read again if a sentence does not make sense; use the context for unfamiliar words. |
| Infer | Work out a feeling, thought or motive from evidence in the text, and quote the evidence. |
| Predict | Use details the text states and implies to make a sensible guess about what will happen. |
| Language and structure | Name the device and explain its effect on the reader: simile, personification, short sentence, quiet ending. |
| Play | Speakers are named in capitals; stage directions in brackets tell the actors and the audience what happens. |
| Myth | A traditional story, often set long ago, which explains a natural thing through characters and magic. |
Can you…?
- I can check that a text makes sense, and use the context for unfamiliar words
- I can infer a feeling, thought or motive, with evidence from the text
- I can predict what will happen, using details the text states and implies
- I can explain the effect of a simile, a personification and a short sentence
- I can read a play, and explain how the stage directions add meaning
Key terms
- inference
- a sensible conclusion the reader draws from evidence in the text
- motive
- the reason why a character does something
- prediction
- a sensible guess about what will happen, based on clues
- simile
- a comparison of two things using like or as
- personification
- giving human feelings or actions to a thing
- stage direction
- an instruction in brackets in a play, telling the actors how to move, speak or feel
- speaker
- the character who says a line in a play, named in capitals
- myth
- a traditional story that explains a natural thing through characters and magic