TUESDAY Y6 Domain/Y5 Gap Y6 wider reading RECORDED IN EXERCISE - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TUESDAY

Y6 Domain/Y5 Gap ­ Y6 wider reading ­ RECORDED IN EXERCISE BOOKS

WALT Make comparisons across books

What is the same? Spot the differences - how do things change throughout?

What is different? Explain it!

TIB

We are often asked to make comparisons within a text. We also need a bank of wider reading to allow us to compare books to other pieces.

WILF

Y6 Domain/Y5 Gap - 8 - 2h - Make comparisons within and across books.

Comparisons

Comparison questions feature in our SATs tests! It's an important reading skill and relies on you having a large repertoire of wider reading knowledge. Comparison questions are like a game

• f spot the difference! You have to

work out what's the same or different between different parts of the text.

Comparisons

We also have to compare across different texts. We have to look at characters and events within a story and compare how they are similar

• r difference to another book.

The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and

• f reading his name amongst the lists of

great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a

• choice. He and the three other children may

be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed

• place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of

getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it seems, someone has been there before them...

Today, we will be looking at two texts. The first one is...

The engine gave a whine, and the pilot frowned and tapped the joystick. He was old and soldierly, with brisk nostril hair and a grey waxed moustache which seemed to reject the usual laws of gravity. He touched the throttle and the plane soared upwards, higher into the clouds. It was almost dark when Fred began to worry. The pilot began to belch, first quietly, then violently and repeatedly. His hand jerked, and the plane dipped suddenly to the left. Someone screamed behind Fred. The plane lurched away from the river and over the

• canopy. The pilot grunted, gasped and wound back the throttle, slowing the engine. He

gave a cough that sounded like a choke. Fred stared at the man - he was turning the same shade of grey as his moustache. 'Are you all right, sir?' he asked. 'Is there something I can do?' Fighting for breath, the pilot shook his head. He reached over to the control panel and cut the engine. The roar ceased. The nose of the plane dipped downwards. The trees rose up. 'What's happening?' asked the blonde girl sharply. 'What's he doing? Make him stop!' The little boy in the back began to shriek. The pilot grasped Fred's wrist hard for a single moment, then his head slumped against the dashboard. And the sky, which had seconds before seemed so reliable, gave way.

Comparisons

What has happened in the extract? What atmosphere is created? What are the main events?

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake and finds himself stranded on the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. We will also be looking at 'Hatchet' to compare 'The Explorer' with...

The pilot reached for the switch on his mike cord, his hand coming up in a small arc from his stomach, and he flipped the switch and said, 'This is flight four six...' And now a jolt took him like a hammer blow, so forcefully that he seemed to crush back into the seat, and Brian reached for him, could not understand at first what it was, could not know. And then

• knew. Brian knew. The pilot's mouth went rigid, he swore and jerked a short series of slams

into the seat, holding his shoulder now. Swore and hissed, 'Chest! Oh God, my chest is coming apart!' Brian knew now. The pilot was having a heart attack. Brian had been in the shopping mall with his mother when a man in front of Paisley's store had suffered a heart attack. He had gone down and screamed about his chest. An old man. Much older than the pilot. Brian knew. The pilot was having a heart attack and even as the knowledge came to Brian he saw the pilot slam into the seat one more time, one more awful time he slammed back into the seat and his right leg jerked, pulling the plane to the side in a sudden twist, and his head fell forward and spit came. Spit came from the corners of his mouth and his legs contracted up, up into the seat, and his eyes rolled back into his head until they were only white. Only white for his eyes and the smell became worse, filled the cockpit, and all of it so fast, so incredibly fast that Brian's mind could not take it in at first. Could only see it in stages.

The pilot had been talking, just a moment ago, complaining of the pain. He had been

• talking. Then the jolts had come.

The jolts that took the pilot back had come, and now Brian sat and there was a strange feeling of silence in the thrumming roar of the engine - a strange feeling of silence and being

• alone. Brian was stopped.

He was stopped. Inside, he was stopped. He could not think past what he saw, what he

• felt. All was stopped. The very core of him, the very centre of Brian Robeson was stopped

and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped. Stopped. Seconds passed, seconds that became all of his life, and he began to know what he was seeing, began to understand what he saw and that was worse, so much worse that he wanted to make his mind freeze again. He was sitting in a bushplane roaring seven thousand feet above the northern wilderness with a pilot who had suffered a massive heart attack and who was either dead or in something close to a coma. He was alone. In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone. Alone.

Comparisons

What has happened in the extract? What atmosphere is created? What are the main events?

Comparisons

Plot What's the same? What's different?

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Setting What's the same? What's different?

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Characters in the story What's the same? What's different?

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Characters reactions What's the same? What's different?

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Author's use of language What's the same? What's different?

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Author's Style What's the same? What's different?

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Which extract do you find more powerful and why? Both extracts describe a plane crashing from the sky.

Challenge:

Y6 Objective 23 - Provide reasoned justifications for our views.