Building comprehension of 'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams'
I can use reading strategies to learn information about Emmeline Pankhurst.
Building comprehension of 'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams'
I can use reading strategies to learn information about Emmeline Pankhurst.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- 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
Common misconception
I only need to read a story once to understand it.
Often stories have lots of new vocabulary and important information. Re-reading a story helps us with fluency and greater understanding.
Keywords
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
Content guidance
- Contains depictions of discriminatory behaviour.
- Contains subject matter which individuals may find upsetting.
Supervision
Adult supervision suggested.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a person who has done something important in our world
a person who takes action to change something in our world
the right to vote in political elections
Exit quiz
6 Questions
Suffragette
unfairly
activist