Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 TUESDAY Y6 Domain/Y5 Gap Y6 wider reading RECORDED IN EXERCISE BOOKS 1
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. Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 2
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 of spot the difference! You have to work out what's the same or different between different parts of the text. Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 3
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 or difference to another book. Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 4
Today, we will be looking at two texts. The first one is... look about him. As the plane crashes into the seems, someone has been there before them... getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed choice. He and the three other children may canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a great discoveries. If only he could land and of reading his name amongst the lists of becoming an explorer, of making history and below him. He has always dreamed of watches as the mysteries of the jungle pass by From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred The Explorer by Katherine Rundell Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 5
before seemed so reliable, gave way. gave a cough that sounded like a choke. moment, then his head slumped against the dashboard. And the sky, which had seconds little boy in the back began to shriek. The pilot grasped Fred's wrist hard for a single 'What's happening?' asked the blonde girl sharply. 'What's he doing? Make him stop!' The the engine. The roar ceased. The nose of the plane dipped downwards. The trees rose up. Fighting for breath, the pilot shook his head. He reached over to the control panel and cut you all right, sir?' he asked. 'Is there something I can do?' Fred stared at the man - he was turning the same shade of grey as his moustache. 'Are canopy. The pilot grunted, gasped and wound back the throttle, slowing the engine. He Someone screamed behind Fred. The plane lurched away from the river and over the violently and repeatedly. His hand jerked, and the plane dipped suddenly to the left. It was almost dark when Fred began to worry. The pilot began to belch, first quietly, then the clouds. usual laws of gravity. He touched the throttle and the plane soared upwards, higher into soldierly, with brisk nostril hair and a grey waxed moustache which seemed to reject the The engine gave a whine, and the pilot frowned and tapped the joystick. He was old and Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 6
Comparisons What has happened in the extract? What atmosphere is created? What are the main events? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 7
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... Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 8
incredibly fast that Brian's mind could not take it in at first. Could only see it in stages. when a man in front of Paisley's store had suffered a heart attack. He had gone down and white for his eyes and the smell became worse, filled the cockpit, and all of it so fast, so up into the seat, and his eyes rolled back into his head until they were only white. Only forward and spit came. Spit came from the corners of his mouth and his legs contracted up, and his right leg jerked, pulling the plane to the side in a sudden twist, and his head fell pilot slam into the seat one more time, one more awful time he slammed back into the seat The pilot was having a heart attack and even as the knowledge came to Brian he saw the screamed about his chest. An old man. Much older than the pilot. Brian knew. The pilot was having a heart attack. Brian had been in the shopping mall with his mother coming apart!' Brian knew now. into the seat, holding his shoulder now. Swore and hissed, 'Chest! Oh God, my chest is knew. Brian knew. The pilot's mouth went rigid, he swore and jerked a short series of slams Brian reached for him, could not understand at first what it was, could not know. And then took him like a hammer blow, so forcefully that he seemed to crush back into the seat, and his stomach, and he flipped the switch and said, 'This is flight four six...' And now a jolt The pilot reached for the switch on his mike cord, his hand coming up in a small arc from Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 9
Alone. and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, something close to a coma. He was alone. In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone. with a pilot who had suffered a massive heart attack and who was either dead or in He was sitting in a bushplane roaring seven thousand feet above the northern wilderness wanted to make his mind freeze again. seeing, began to understand what he saw and that was worse, so much worse that he Seconds passed, seconds that became all of his life, and he began to know what he was and nearly his heart had stopped. Stopped. felt. All was stopped. The very core of him, the very centre of Brian Robeson was stopped He was stopped. Inside, he was stopped. He could not think past what he saw, what he alone. Brian was stopped. feeling of silence in the thrumming roar of the engine - a strange feeling of silence and being The jolts that took the pilot back had come, and now Brian sat and there was a strange talking. Then the jolts had come. The pilot had been talking, just a moment ago, complaining of the pain. He had been Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 10
Comparisons What has happened in the extract? What atmosphere is created? What are the main events? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 11
Comparisons Plot What's the same? What's different? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 12
Comparisons Setting What's the same? What's different? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 13
Comparisons Characters in the story What's the same? What's different? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 14
Comparisons Characters reactions What's the same? What's different? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 15
Comparisons Author's use of language What's the same? What's different? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 16
Comparisons Author's Style What's the same? What's different? Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 17
Comparisons Which extract do you find more powerful and why? Both extracts describe a plane crashing from the sky. Untitled.notebook September 28, 2020 Challenge: Y6 Objective 23 - Provide reasoned justifications for our views. 18
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