Year 6 · English · Reading
Reading closely
Infer themes, compare characters, summarise and support our ideas with evidence from the text.
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- 3D lesson: Reading closely — Spot themes and turn them into messages, prove inferences with Point–Evidence–Explain, build summaries from the key events and work out whose eyes a story is told through.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 2 (Years 4–6), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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