Year 2 - English
Building comprehension of 'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams'
'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams': reading
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils read and explore the text, 'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams', learning about the features of a biography. Pupils will summarise the story and discuss what makes Emmeline Pankhurst a significant figure.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use reading strategies to learn information about Emmeline Pankhurst.
Key Notes
- It is useful to pick out the important parts when retelling a story
- Re-reading a text helps to build fluency and understanding
- Searching for a "word within a word" is a strategy to understand words
- Retrieving key information helps to build greater understanding of a story
Vocabulary To Learn
- information: facts learned about something or someone
- biography: a non-fiction text written about someone's life
- activist: a person who takes action to change something in our world
- suffrage: the right to vote in political elections
- chronological: following the order in which a series of events happened
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- I only need to read a story once to understand it.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
It is useful to pick out the important parts when retelling a story. Re-reading a text helps to build fluency and understanding.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'information'
facts learned about something or someone.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: I only need to read a story once to understand it. Correction: Often stories have lots of new vocabulary and important information. Re-reading a story helps us with fluency and greater understanding.
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