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Achieving Level 6 Reading
Workshop A
Reading – Writing Links and
Encouraging Wider Reading
Jeannie Bulman
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Bloom’s taxonomy of questioning
(1956)
Tasks
Evaluation
Assess / compare & contrast
/ judge
Synthesis
Design / create / compose
Analysis
Application
Explain / infer / analyse
Demonstrate / solve / try in a
new context
Comprehension
Translate / predict / why?
Knowledge
Describe / identify / who,
when, where?
(recall)
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By the beginning of year 5, pupils should be able to
read aloud a wider range of poetry and books written at an
age-appropriate interest level with accuracy and at a
reasonable speaking pace. They should be able to read
most words effortlessly and to work out how to pronounce
unfamiliar written words with increasing automaticity. If the
pronunciation sounds unfamiliar, they should ask for help in
determining both the meaning of the word and how to
pronounce it correctly. They should be able to prepare
readings, with appropriate intonation to show their
understanding, and should be able to summarise and
present a familiar story in their own words. They should be
reading widely and frequently, outside as well as in school,
for pleasure and information. They should be able to read
silently, and then discuss what they have read.
National Curriculum, July 2013. p.41
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Achieving Level 6 Reading
Workshop B
Understanding the Different
Assessment Focuses at level 6
Julia Waites
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AF2: Understand, describe, select or retrieve
information, events or ideas from text, and use
quotation and reference to text
Expectations of the literal reader at level 6:
• Summarise and synthesise information
• Select and explore evidence from different texts
• Make relevant points clearly identified with apt
quotations
• Understand how a line of argument is developed
• Using quotations to develop and support your
ideas
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AF3: Deduce, infer or interpret information,
events or ideas from texts
Expectations of the deductive and inferential
reader at level 6:
• Make inferences from challenging texts
• Interpret key points from different parts of the texts
• Consider the wider implications of themes, events
and ideas in texts
• Explore the connotations of words and images
• Explore what can be inferred from the finer details
of texts.
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Interpreting deeper levels of meaning in
texts
Supporting
reading comprehension
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Objectives:
To clarify understanding of comprehension questions that require LITERAL, DEDUCTIVE and
INFERENTIAL responses, as well as those requiring an understanding of AUTHORIAL
INTENT.
To provide Y6 children with practice in responding appropriately to each of these, supporting
answers with evidence from the text.
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Literal Questions
Questions asking us about what has actually taken
place
To answer these questions we need to read the text very careful
and find the exact words that tell us the answer.
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Ones where the text does not actually tell us, but we can work out the answer directly from
information the text gives us.
To answer them well we need to read the text very carefully and work things out from the
information we are given (but not make things up of our own).
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INFERENTIAL questions
Ones where the text does not actually tell us, but we can work out the answer by considering the
hints and clues in the text in the light of our own knowledge and experience.
To answer it well we need to read the text very carefully and draw conclusions of our own from the
hints and clues we are given (but not completely make things up, or jump to conclusions not
supported by the text).
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AUTHORIAL INTENT
Question asking us about AUTHORIAL INTENT:
Ones that ask us what the writer has done and why.
To answer these well we need to read the text very carefully and try to put ourselves in the writer’s place (i
‘read like a writer’). We need to think about what the writer was trying to communicate and how he/she wen
about doing it.
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For the third night in a row, Zac cried himself to sleep.
He had never been happy since he moved into Year 6
a month ago. But, now that Bruiser and his cronies
had started singling Zac out, it was worse than ever.
Questions:
Was Zac happier in school when he was younger?
How old is Zac?
Who was making Zac particularly unhappy?
What time of year is it?
How long is it since Zac started a new class?
How does the writer imply that Bruiser is someone
who bullies?
How recently has Zac’s situation at school begun to
get much worse?
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Questions:
Was Zac happier in school when he was younger?
How old is Zac?
Who was making Zac particularly unhappy?
What time of year is it?
How long is it since Zac started a new class?
How does the writer imply that Bruiser is someone who
bullies?
How recently has Zac’s situation at school begun to get much
worse?
Literal Questions
INFERENTIAL questions
DEDUCTIVE questions
questions
DEDUCTIVE
AUTHORIAL INTENT
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Workshop C
Understanding Structure and Organisation,
and the Writers’ Use of Language at Level 6
AF4 Identify and comment on the structure
and organisation of texts
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Expectations of the level 6 reader:
• Comment on how successfully writers have opened their
stories
• Explored how writers structure a whole text
• Recognise and discuss the effect of a range of structural
features in a text
• Comment on writer’s use of narrative structure to shape
meaning
• Compare the organisation and development of a theme
through a whole text
How writers structure text to shape meaning and
develop ideas
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AF5: Explain and comment on writers’ use of
language,
Expectations of the level 6 reader:
• Identify and comment on the effectiveness of
emotive language
• Explain and comment on the authors’ use of irony
• Analyse how authors use different sentence
structures and rhythms
• Explore different kinds of dialogue in fiction
• Compare how writers use descriptive language in
different texts
Explaining how writers choose words and
construct sentences for maximum impact
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Workshop D
Writers’ Purpose and Viewpoint
Relating Texts to Social, Cultural and
Historical Traditions
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AF6 Indentify and comment on writers’
purposes and viewpoints, and the overall effect of
the text on the reader
Expectations of the level 6 reader:
• Use detailed evidence from a text to identify the writer’s
purpose
• Give detailed evidence for your opinions at word, sentence
and text levels
• Explain writers’ viewpoints using detailed textual evidence
• Understand a text’s effect on the reader and explain how
the writer has created it
Explaining the effect of the text on the reader and how
the writer achieves it
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AF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and
historical traditions
Expectations of the level 6 reader:
• Recognise textual conventions
• Recognise how textual conventions can be combined to
create a new literary form
• Discuss how ideas in texts are treated differently in
different times and places
When we read, we are not just reading texts, we are
reading the society and traditions they come from. The
contexts of the texts help us to understand a range of
the times, places and cultures.