English · Stage 5

Term 2 Check

Show what you learned this term — the author's purpose, punctuating direct speech, the possessive apostrophe, linking paragraphs, Greek and Latin roots, and figurative language, all in one check

✦ English📘 Stage 5 · S5⏱ ~12 min🧒 Ages 9–10★ Free to start

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Kavi's Term 2 Show-What-You-Know Day

"It's your Term 2 Check, clever writer — not a scary test, a day to shine! ⭐" says Kavi the owl. "This term you worked out why an author wrote a text (to inform, persuade, entertain or instruct), you punctuated direct speech — “Come in,” said Kavi. — you used the possessive apostrophe (the dog's bone, the dogs' park), you linked paragraphs with words like however and as a result, you cracked long words open with Greek and Latin roots, and you read similes and metaphors. Let's put it all together today!"

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What your child will learn

1Everything you learned this termLook how much you can do! Each skill helps you read a text closely, understand how it is made, and craft one of your own.

2Which kind of picture-language is it?A simile compares two things with the words like or as. A metaphor says one thing IS another (no 'like' or 'as'). Tap each one into the right box.

3Read this page — top to bottomTap each line in order. Listen for the term's skills working together — direct speech, a possessive apostrophe, a linking word and a simile.

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A peek inside

Punctuate this as direct speech: come in said Kavi

wrap the spoken words in speech marks · capital on the first spoken word · a comma before 'said', kept inside the speech marks

Try this at home: What is the author's purpose of a page of steps that begins 'First, preheat the oven'?

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