Year 6 · Reading
Distinguish a shared fact, an opinion and a proposed follow-up.
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Distinguish a shared fact, an opinion and a proposed follow-up.
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Year 6 comprehension compares accounts, distinguishes evidence from opinion and checks the limits of a claim. Compare the accounts uses two original fictional reports of a river clean-up. The shared quantity can be retrieved from both, while the volunteer’s claim about the best project ever is attributed as an opinion. A proposed follow-up must not be reported as something already observed.
Ask whether thirty-five bags prove that this was the town’s best project. The quantity records one result, while the comparison with every earlier project is not supplied. Build a short summary that preserves the shared evidence and attributes the opinion to its speaker. Then explain what the proposed later check might establish and why it cannot already support a conclusion.
Return to the passage when checking an answer. Ask which words support the interpretation and distinguish a detail stated by the writer from a conclusion based on clues. Read aloud together if decoding is getting in the way of understanding. The game checks a prepared set of matches; the conversation afterwards can explore other interpretations when the text supports them.
Reading and writing use the shared Years 5–6 programme of study. These Year 6 practice choices provide one possible progression; schools can sequence the shared content differently. This collection offers selected practice rather than the complete programme. Read the official English programme of study.
It checks the prepared examples in this collection. Use real books and writing to explore the skill more widely.
The National Curriculum groups reading and writing in Years 5 and 6. These Year 6 examples provide a practice progression within that shared programme; schools can sequence the content differently. Spoken-language requirements apply across Years 1–6.