Year 6 Course Access

Description

Reading tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Read a range of texts
• Determine the meaning of new words by applying morphological knowledge of root words and affixes
• Identify and comment on features, themes and conventions and understand their use
• Identify language, structural and presentational features in a text
• Explore finer meaning of words
• Understand the meaning of vocabulary in context
• Use contextual evidence to make sense of a text
• Identify the effect of language
• Identify figurative language an explain and evaluate its effect
• Make comparisons between texts
• Make developed inferences
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Retrieve information from non-fiction texts
• Identify key details which support main ideas
• Summarise content drawn from more than one paragraph
• Make suitable predictions

Year 6 writing tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Adapt form and style to suit audience and purpose
• Understand how paragraphing develops and expands ideas in depth
• A range of devices to link ideas within and across paragraphs
• Understand how presentational devices are used to guide the reader
• Understand how dialogue can convey character and advance action
• Describe characters, setting and atmosphere
• Write a range of sentence types including relative clauses
• Use a wide range of punctuation
• Use modal verbs
• Use past and present tense
• Identify synonym and antonym
• Understand vocabulary and grammar used in informal and formal writing
• Use varied vocabulary.

Year 6 spelling tasks consist of and/or give children an opportunity to:

• Use knowledge of morphology to spell words with the full range of prefixes and suffixes
• Use the appropriate range of spelling rules and conventions to spell polysyllabic words which conform to regular patterns
• Spell challenging homophones from the Y5 and Y6 spelling appendix
• Revisit and spell words from the Y5 and Y6 statutory word list.