Y6 Strand Literacy
Texts in context
Examine texts, including media texts, that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
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For example:
- comparing current and past texts, such as newspaper articles that discuss historical events or issues
- identifying stereotypes in texts from another time or place
Interacting with others
Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
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Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text and engage and influence audiences
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For example:
- comparing two or more texts on the same topic and evaluating their effectiveness
- considering choices made by the author to engage or influence a target audience
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features, such as a table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings
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For example:
- setting a reason for reading, selecting appropriate texts and activating prior knowledge about text structures
- monitoring understanding while reading a novel, such as keeping a reading journal
- ranking texts based on their suitability for a particular purpose, such as websites
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning when listening, reading and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources
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For example:
- using prior knowledge about genres when selecting texts and building meaning
- making connections to general knowledge or subject knowledge when building literal and inferential understanding of settings, characters or events in literary texts
- monitoring the truth or accuracy of texts by making connections to other texts to evaluate information or ideas
- comparing and connecting information or ideas across a number of texts to create a summary
Creating texts
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic‑specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
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Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic‑specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features
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Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to purpose and audience
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Select and use features of digital tools to create or add to texts for a purpose and audience
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For example:
- using a range of features when using a digital tool to create a text for a specific purpose and audience, such as an informative presentation