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Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'

I can confidently understand an unseen extract from Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden’ and make a range of inferences.

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Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'

I can confidently understand an unseen extract from Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden’ and make a range of inferences.

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Key learning points

  1. Book covers can be useful tools in making predictions about a text.
  2. Use the first reading of an unseen extract to establish key information about plot, character and setting.
  3. Next, read the text more closely to consider the meaning of specific words and phrases.

Keywords

  • Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future.

  • To infer - to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have.

  • Extract - a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.

  • Tone - the general mood or feeling of a text.

Common misconception

That you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

If we consider a literal book cover, it has been chosen to introduce the reader to the tone of the text.

Once they have read the extract, you could ask the students to go back to the book covers and assess how well they thought they represented the extract.
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Equipment

You will need an extract from 'The Secret Garden' which is available in the additional materials.

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6 Questions

Q1.
An unseen text is .
a text you have written
a text you are very familiar with
Correct answer: a text you haven't seen before
Q2.
If there is a dominant image on an advert then it suggests .
Correct answer: the image is important
the image is not important
the advertiser created the image
Q3.
We normally associate bright colours with .
sadness
Correct answer: happiness
neutrality
Q4.
An extract is a .
book cover
Correct answer: small piece of a text
the full text
a review of a text
Q5.
If a writer repeats something then it's likely they want .
Correct answer: to emphasise it
for you to forget it
to let you know that it's not important
for you to write it down
Q6.
If a writer describes someone's heart as beating quickly which two emotions is the character likely to be feeling?
calmness
Correct answer: happiness
Correct answer: terror
boredom

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6 Questions

Q1.
What does an illustrator create that introduces a reader to a text?
a blurb
a review
Correct answer: a book cover
Q2.
What does predict mean?
to know what will happen in the future
Correct answer: to say what you think will happen in the future
to explain why something happened in the past
Q3.
What does infer mean?
Correct answer: to form an opinion based on information
to repeat something to shows its importance
to show how a character is feeling
Q4.
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses is .
a caesura
enjambment
Correct answer: anaphora
analogy
Q5.
What is onomatopoeia?
Correct answer: a word that resembles the sound it describes
where non-human things are given human characteristics
the general mood or feeling of a text
where a word has the same sound but a different meaning
Q6.
Why might using onomatopoeia help a reader understand a text?
it helps the reader understand the vocabulary
Correct answer: it helps the reader hear how the scene sounds
it helps the reader see how the scene looks

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