Year 6 Close the Gap Homework Resources
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14kpQTrhvNsCqEO06sTCKhijnx_pnsgX1HTvFw8hDgmA/edit#slide=id.p
Use your Close the Gap Booklet to identify which area you are practising this week.
Maths
Maths - times tables
Learning your times tables quickly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Ih3-mDPUk
Breaking down your times tables into easy and hard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwz_vbWbes
Three times tables song (Uptown Funk) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XzfQUXqiYY
Four times tables song (Blurred Lines) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ue9Kux95H0
Six times tables song (Cheerleader) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9os1VUUp5io
Seven times tables song (using actual instruments) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEnQbnxWtqM
Eight times tables song (All about that base) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X620IeUkYE
Times tables online games - http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
Maths
General maths learning - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z826n39
Factors and multiples - https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/factors-multiples.html
Prime numbers - http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/prime-number.html
Square numbers - http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/square-numbers-.html
Bitesize read, play, quiz: factors and multiples - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/factors_multiples/read/1/
Maths is fun - http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/factors-multiples.html
Nrich game - https://nrich.maths.org/5468
Maths - Arithmetic End of Year 6 Standard
Addition
I can add up to 5 digit numbers to other 5 digit numbers
I can add decimal numbers
I can add negative numbers
Subtraction
I can subtract up to 5 digit numbers from 5 digit numbers
I can subtract decimal numbers
I can subtract negative numbers
Multiplication
I can multiply a by a 1 digit number
I can multiply by 2 digit number
I can multiply by 10, 100, 1000
I can multiply decimal numbers
Division
I can divide by a 1 digit number
I can divide by a 2 digit number
I can divide by 10, 100, 1000
Four Operations
Order of Operations - BIDMAS (Brackets, Indices, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction)
Fractions
I can find a fraction of a number
I can add fractions with the same denominator
I can subtract fractions with the same denominator
I can multiply fractions with the same denominator
I can divide fractions with the same denominator
I can add fractions with different denominators
I can subtract fractions with different denominators
I can multiply fractions with different denominators
I can divide fractions with different denominators
I can add mixed numbers
I can subtract mixed numbers
I can multiply mixed numbers
I can divide mixed numbers
Percentages
I can find the percentage of a number
Arithmetic practise questions:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzhAPU01IuH7TVNzSnV6S1pHdG8/view?usp=sharing
Try to complete whole task in less than 30 minutes.
Answers on the last page.
X and ÷ by 10, 100 and 1000
How to multiply multi-digit numbers by a 1 digit number using the formal method
How to multiply multi-digit numbers by 2 digit numbers using the formal method
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/multiplication-long.html
How to divide a multi-digit number by a 1 digit number using the formal method
How to find the area of compound shapes
Watch from 58 seconds to end of video
⅔ of 30 =
⅘ of 25 =
6/13 of 39 =
½ of £5 =
6/7 of 77 =
4/9 of 36 =
Reading
Reading - Use the following slides to learn about skimming and scanning.
Can you apply this to the reading of your accelerated reader book or any book at home?
Reading - Skimming as a Speed Reading Technique
By Richard Sutz and Peter Weverka from Speed Reading For Dummies
Speed reading is a good way to absorb a lot of printed information quickly, but sometimes you just need to get the gist of what is being written about, without all the details. That's when knowing how to skim text can be helpful.
When you skim a page, you take the main ideas from the reading material without reading all the words. You look for and seize upon words that appear to give the main meaning. Readers skim when time is short or when they need to understand the general ideas but not the particulars of an article or book. Skimming occurs at three to four times the normal reading speed. For that reason, your reading comprehension takes a nose dive when you skim.
Studies show that people read and comprehend text on a computer screen more slowly than they read and comprehend printed material. Readers can’t skim as efficiently on their computer screens either. When you read or skim a Web page on your computer, do so more slowly than usual if you want to read and skim efficiently.
Skimming is taking the most important information from the page without reading all the words. (The term comes from the act of skimming milk, when the dairy farmer skims the cream — the richest material — from the top of the milk before it’s processed.) Strictly speaking, skimming isn’t a reading technique but rather a scavenging technique. You hunt for the choicest information and hope important material doesn’t pass you by.
Reading - Skimming as a Speed Reading Technique continued...
When you speed read, you skim to the extent that you don’t fixate on all the words. In effect, you weed out some words and focus on the remaining ones. However, skimming takes the notion of passing by some words to another level. In the act of skimming, you focus only on the essential ideas and skip over the insignificant, marginal, and secondary.
The first step in recognising the essential ideas when you skim is knowing when to skim. Some materials and situations practically require skimming:
· Needlessly lengthy white papers and convoluted business reports are almost impossible not to skim.
· Newspapers, with their ready-made word clumps, are designed for skimming.
· If you’re on a time crunch, you often have to skim because you don’t have enough time to read the material.
Often, a work’s opening paragraphs and the concluding paragraphs present the author’s main ideas. Opening paragraphs often outline what the author plans to prove, and closing paragraphs explain why the author’s proof is justified. Read these paragraphs closely; don’t skim them.
Reading - Scanning Text for the Information You Need
By Richard Sutz and Peter Weverka from Speed Reading For Dummies
Think of scanning as a hyperactive form of skimming, which is in a turn a quicker form of speed reading. You speed through the text in search of information without any regard for the overall gist of the author’s ideas. All you want is information about a specific topic — George Washington, the influenza virus, copper production in 19th-century Peru, ancient Greek sandal sizes, or whatever. To help you become a top-notch scanner, the following sections give you tips on scanning well.
When you’re scanning, it helps to think in terms of targets. Think of an informational target you want to hit and then try to hit it in the text.
Reading - Scanning Text for the Information You Need
Here are some other tips for scanning:
· Use all your powers of concentration. Scanning is boring as all get-out, so you may be inclined to slip into laziness. But if you get lazy and fail to concentrate, you won’t find the information you want.
· Scan for the two or three search terms that describe the information you want. You can recognize terms more readily on the page if you have them in mind while you scan.
· Use the Find command to scan a Web page. Press Ctrl+F (the Find command), enter a search term, and press Enter. Your Web browser scrolls to the first instance of the search term you entered (if the term appears on the page at all).
· Look at all italicised words. According to popular publishing convention, authors often italicise and explain terms the first time they use them. If you’re reading a printed book or magazine article that conforms to these conventional editorial standards, you can look to italicized words for explanations and perhaps for the information you need.
· Don’t be shy about using the table of contents and index. Why scan when you can look up the information you need in the index? Why pore over numerous pages when the table of contents can direct you to the information you want?
Target – how many words are you aiming to read per minute? | Time to read (mins) | Number of words read in total | Number of words per min (total words read ÷ number of mins) | Did you meet your target? Green/ Gold |
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Speed reading: You can create a table like this to try and improve your reading pace.
Time yourself when you are reading and fill in the table.
Chapter 1
The text below has been grouped into 50 words per group. Each gold word shows the 50th word each time.
My earliest memories are a confusion of hilly fields and dark, damp stables, and rats that scampered along the beams above my head. But I remember well enough the day of the horse sale. The terror of it stayed with me all my life.
I was not yet six months50 old, a gangling, leggy colt who had never been further than a few feet from his mother. We were parted that day in the terrible hubbub of the auction ring and I was never to see her again. She was a fine working farm horse, getting on in years but100 with all the strength and stamina of an Irish draught horse quite evident in her fore and hind quarters. She was sold within minutes, and before I could follow her through the gates, she was whisked out of the ring and away. But somehow I was more difficult to dispose150 of. Perhaps it was the wild look in my eye as I circled the ring in a desperate search for my mother, or perhaps it was that none of the farmers and gypsies there were looking for a spindly-looking halfthoroughbred colt. But whatever the reason they were a long time200 haggling over how little I was worth before I heard the hammer go down and I was driven out through the gates and into a pen outside.
‘Not bad for three guineas, is he? Are you, my little firebrand? Not bad at all.’ The voice was harsh and thick with drink, and it belonged quite evidently to my owner. I shall not call him my master, for only one man was ever my master. My owner had a rope in his hand and was clambering into the pen followed by three or four of his red-faced friends. Each one carried a rope. They had taken off their hats and jackets and rolled up their sleeves; and they were all laughing as they came towards me. I had as yet been touched by no man and backed away from them until I felt the bars of the pen behind me and could go no further.
They seemed to lunge at me all at once, but they were slow and I managed to slip past them and into the middle of the pen where I turned to face them again. They had stopped laughing now. I screamed for my mother and heard her reply echoing in the far distance. It was towards that cry that I bolted, half charging, half jumping the rails so that I caught my off foreleg as I tried to clamber over and was stranded there. I was grabbed roughly by the mane and tail and felt a rope tighten around my neck before I was thrown to the ground and held there with a man sitting it seemed on every part of me. I struggled until I was weak, kicking out violently every time I felt them relax, but they were too many and too strong for me. I felt the halter slip over my head and tighten around my neck and face. ‘So you’re quite a fighter, are you?’ said my owner, tightening the rope and smiling through gritted teeth. ‘I like a fighter. But I’ll break you one way or the other. Quite the little fighting cock you are, but you’ll be eating out of my hand quick as a twick.’
I was dragged along the lanes tied on a short rope to the tailboard of a farm cart so that every twist and turn wrenched at my neck. By the time we reached the farm lane and rumbled over the bridge into the stable yard that was to become my home, I was soaked with exhaustion and the halter had rubbed my face raw. My one consolation as I was hauled into the stables that first evening was the knowledge that I was not alone. The old horse that had been pulling the cart all the way back from market was led into the stable next to mine. As she went in she stopped to look over my door and nickered gently. I was about to venture away from the back of my stable when my new owner brought his crop down on her side with such a vicious blow that I recoiled once again and huddled into the corner against the wall. ‘Get in there you old ratbag,’ he bellowed. ‘Proper nuisance you are Zoey, and I don’t want you teaching this young ’un your old tricks.’ But in that short moment I had caught a glimpse of kindness and sympathy from that old mare that cooled my panic and soothed my spirit.
Comprehension questions and text
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kphCfqwnbM_DoNqONgdmwRWtGxY2tY0DB3qViOqaMU4/edit?usp=sharing
Try to complete in 20 minutes.
Take notice of the type of question and how many marks it is worth.
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
GPS
Grammar skills http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/
mkm http://www.grammar-monster.com/
Word classes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjaFrR2FW48
Preposition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byszemY8Pl8
Statement/commands https://grammarianism.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/statements-questions-commands-and-exclamations/
Spelling
They are also sometimes pronounced slightly differently.
• Pyramid words
• Trace, copy and replicate
• Look, say, cover, write, check
• Drawing around the word to show the shape
• Drawing an image around the word
• Words without vowels
Key word list