Y6_Week1_Spring_2022

What is a thoughtshot?

(30 seconds)

• A written prediction of what you think the author will write about.

• A written description of a scene in a book.

• A written description of what an author or character is thinking or feeling.

• A description that is written in italics.

Do not concern yourself with moving mountains, for the mountains will move you.

What is this text effect called? (p.7)

(20 seconds)

• Leaning

• Arial

• Italic

• Sloping

Why do you think there are two paragraphs on page 1 that use this text effect? (p.1) Check the boxes for the correct reasons.

(2 answers - 30 seconds)

• Yash's own thoughts

• Yash's shouted instructions

• Yash remembering the Guru's words

• Yash remembering instructions he'd read

On page 4, there are three very short paragraphs that are only one line long each. Why are these paragraphs so short, and why did the author choose not to attach them all together?

(30 seconds)

• For 'dramatic effect'

• To build tension

• To simplify the story

• New speaker, new line (direct speech)

Check the boxes when you find two possible names for the main character?

(20 seconds)

• Protaganist

• Yashwin

• Yashashwin

• Yash

Computing: Which of these statements is incorrect?

(30 seconds)

• 2D Shapes have only 2 dimensions: height and width.

• 3D Modelling allows us to experiment with different designs.

• 2D Modelling allows you to see the back and sides.

• 3D Shapes have faces, edges and vertices.

Literacy: Identify all the features of a biography.

(2 correct answers - 30 seconds)

• Stage Directions

  Slogan

  Headline

  Verses

• Emotive

  Anecdotes

  Beliefs / Values

  Achievements

• Imperative verbs

  Instructions

  List of Equipment

  Rhyming couplets

• Third person

  Past tense

  Chronological

  Facts

Literacy: Identify the definition of an autobiography

(30 seconds)

• An account of someone's life written by someone else.

• An account of a person's life written by that person.

• An account of the series of events making up a person's life.

• A fictionalised account based on a series of events in a true-story

Literacy: Which of these conjunctions is NOT a relative conjunction

(and cannot be used in relative clause)

(20 seconds)

• who

• which

• that

• what

Which of the following is NOT an example of figurative language

(20 seconds)

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• pronoun